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housie ^' being attended with noteworthy results. Besides 

 aiding Prof. Mcintosh with this work^ Mr. E. E. Prince 

 communicated further researches " On the Teleostean Pec- 

 toral Fin " to the British Association, '' On the Development 

 of the Ovary and Oviduct in Certain Osseous Fishes/^ 

 •'* On the Luminous Organs of the Pearl-sides/' and " On 

 the Structure of Tomopteris.'' Other papers from the 

 Laboratory (by Prof, Mcintosh) were^ " On the Pelagic 

 Fauna of our Shores in its Relation to the Nourishment of 

 the Young Fishes/^* ''On the Occurrence of Peculiar Gela- 

 tinous Bodies in Profusion/^ " On Syncoryne decipiens," 

 " On the Commensalistic Habits of the Larval Forms of 

 Peacliia," '' On the Presence of Swarms of Appendicu- 

 larias/' and " On the Occurrence of Clione horealis in St. 

 Andrews Bay.t Further remarks were given on post- 

 larval fisheSj young gunnel^ Liparis and Labrus.% A con- 

 siderable paper, with three plates, was written by Mr. E. E. 

 Prince on his " Researches on the Development and Mor- 

 phology of the Limbs of Teleosts.^^ This will be published 

 soon in America. § 



Prof. Burdon Sanderson and Mr. Grotch, of Oxford, for 

 some time in summer carried out a series of interesting 

 physiological researches on the electrical organs of the 

 skate (chiefly the thornback and grey skate), and as the 

 fishes had to be not only living but perfectly fresh, the 

 advantages of the Laboratory in this respect were con- 

 spicuous. Mr. H. E. Durham, B.A., of Cambridge, again, 

 conducted various minute investigations into the life-history 

 and functions of the perivisceral corpuscles of the star- 

 fishes {Asterias, &c). Prof. D. J. Cunningham, of Trinity 

 College, Dublin, commenced an inquiry into the vertebral 

 column of young Teleosteaus, while Prof. Purser, of the same 

 University, studied the phj'siology of various invertebrates. 

 Lastly, Dr. Gunn, of Moorfields Ophthalmic Hospital, London, 

 began in February an inquiry at the Laboratory into the 



* ' Ann. Nat. Hist.,' Feb., 1887. 



t Ibid., August, 1887. 



X Ibid., Oct., 1887. 



§ Elizabeth Thompson Fund. 



