CONTENTS. IX 



BOTANY AND ZOOLOGY, including PHYSIOLOGY. 



Botany. 



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 Mr. C. C. Babington on a supposed Fossil Fucus found at Aust Cliff, Glou- 

 cestershire 83 



Professor Buckman's Notes on Experiments in the Botanical Garden of the 

 Royal Agricultui-al College 83 



Professor Gregory on New Forms of Diatomacese from the Firth of Clyde. . 88 



Professor Arthur Henfrey on the Development of the Embryo of Flowering 

 Plants 85 



Rev. Professor Henslow on the Triticoidal Forms of JEgilops, and on the 

 Specific Identitjr of Centaurea nigra and C. nigrescens 87 



Professor G. B. Knowxbs on the Movements of Oscillatoriae 88 



Dr. W. Lauder Lindsay on the genus Abrothallus, De Nrs 88 



Dr. MiCHELSEN on the Flora of the Crimea 90 



on the Geography of Breadstiiffs 90 



Mr. Charles W. Peach on the Natural Printing of Sea-Weeds on the Rocks 

 in the vicinity of Stromness, Orkney 90 



Zoology. 



Mr. Joshua Alder on some New Genera and Species of British Zoophytes 90 



Mr. Spence Bate on a New Crustacean, Monimia Whiteana 91 



Professor J. H. Corbett on the Acalephse, with respect to Organs of Cir- 

 culation and Respiration 91 



Mr. Robert Garner on the Pearls of the Conway River, North Wales, with 



some Observations on the Natural Productions of the neighbouring Coast . . 92 

 Professor Goodser on the Moi-phological Constitution of Limbs 93 



on the Morphological Constitution of the Skeleton of the 



Vertebrate Head 93 



on the Morphological Relations of the Nervous System in 



the Anniilose and Vertebrate Types of Organization 93 



Mr. Albany Hancock on the Anatomy of the Brachiopoda 94 



Mr. W. E. C. Nourse's Suggestions for ascertaining the Causes of Death in 

 Birds and Animals 97 



■ on the Medical Indications of Poisoning 97 



Sir Thomas Ptttt.lipps on an instance of Instinct in a Caterpillar 97 



Mr. B. W. Richardson's Recent Researches on the Cause of the Fluidity of 

 the Blood 98 



Mr. J. Samuelson's Experiments and Observations on the Development of 

 Infusorial Animalcules 98 



Dr. Shaw's Description of the Ajuh, a kind of Whale, found by Dr. Vogel in 

 the River RenuS (Central Africa) in September 1855 98 



Dr. Augustus Waller's Experimental Researches on the Eye, and Obser- 

 vations on the Circulation of the Blood in the Vessels of the Conjunctiva, 

 of the Iris, of the Ciliary Ligament, and of the Choroid Membrane, during 

 life, as seen under the Compoimd Microscope 100 



Dr. Thomas Williams on the Mechanism of Respiration in the Family of 

 Echinidse 101 



on the Fluid System of the Nematoid Entozoa .... 101 



