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by the obsei-vation of its foetal conditions— the study of development is acces- 

 sory or supplementary to many departments of anatomy and physiology ; that 

 in recent times no branch of inquiry relating to organic nature has made more 

 rapid progress, has presented a greater amount of new discoveries, or has 

 influenced in a greater degree the views of scientific men on allied subjects than 

 the science of embryology ; that it is co-extensive with, and illustrative of, the 

 whole range of comparative anatomy ; that no system, therefore, of zoological 

 classification can be regarded as pliilosophical or comjilete which neglects the 

 facts and principles of f cetal development ; finally, that some departments of 

 pathological anatomy receive considerable illustration from ova science, and that 

 more especially the scientific study and comprehension of teratology or con- 

 genital malformations is founded entirely on an accurate knowledge of the 

 phenomena and laws of development. Our subject, therefore, is not only 

 interesting by itself, but deeply important as an essential branch of philogophical 

 Miatomy and physiology." 



The Rev. J. F. Crouch, of Pembridge, brought to the meeting a box full 

 of specimens of a very elegant and sweet-scented Cuscuta, which he very kindly 

 distributed amongst the botanists present. It proved to be the 



