CONTENTS. IX 



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 Mr. W. C. Domvillb's Notices of some Living Aquatic Birds at Santry House, 



near Dublin 66 



Mr. P. Duncan on the Nature of Ciliary Motion 66 



Dr. R. Fowler on the Influence of the Cu-culation of the Blood on the Mental 

 Functions 66 



Mr. John Gould on a New Species of Cometes, a Genus of Humming-Birds 68 



Mr. John Hogg on the Artificial Breeding of Salmon in the Swale 68 



Dr. F. R. Horner on some Discoveries relative to the Chick in Ovo, and its 

 liberation from the shell 68 



Dr. Lankester's Notice of Jelly Fishes 69 



on Photographic Plates and Illustrations of Microscopic Ob- 

 jects in Natural History 70 



Mr. C. W. Peach's Note on the Habits of Fish in relation to certain forms of 

 Medusae 70 



Professor Phillips's Notes on a living Specimen of Priapulus cavdatus, 

 dredged off the Coast of Scai'borough 70 



Dr. Peter Redfern on the Connexion between Cartilage and Bone 71 



Rev. Francis F. Statham on a curious Exemplification of Instinct in Birds 71 



Mr. H. E. Strickland on the Partridges of the Great Water-shed of India. . 71 



on the Mode of Growth of Halichondria suberea .... 72 



Mr. Robert Warington on Preserving the Balance between Vegetable and 

 Animal Organisms in Sea Water 72 



GEOGRAPHY AND ETHNOLOGY. 



Sir C. Anderson on the Influence of the Invasion of the Danes and Scandi- 

 navians, in Early Times, on certain Localities in England 73 



Mr. Charles Beckett on the Dialects North and South of the Humber 73 



M. Herman C. Dwerhagen, Substance of a Topographical Essay on the 

 Navigation of the Rivers " Plata," " Parana," " Paraguay," " Vermejo," and 

 " Pilcomayo " 73 



Mr. G. Windsor Earl's Sketch of the Progress of Discovery in the Western 

 Half of New Giunea, from the Year 1828 up to the Present Time "JQ 



Mr. A. G. FiNDLAY on the Currents of the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans 76 



Prince Ern. Galitzin on the Manners and Customs of the Yacoutes 80 



Capt. Walter Hall's Proposed New Route between the Atlantic and Pacific, 

 by the River Maule in Chili g2 



Mr. John Hogg on Iceland, its Inhabitants and Language 82 



Lieut.-Gen. Jochmus' Notes on a Journey to the Balkan, or Mount Hsemus, 

 from Constantinople ^4 



Dr. R. G. Latham on certain LocaUties not in Sweden occupied bv Swedish 

 Populations, and on certain Ethnological Questions connected with the 

 Coasts of Livonia, Esthonia, Courland, and Gothland 86 



; — ; Ethnological Remarks upon some of the more remarkable 



Varieties of the Human Species, represented by individuals now in London. . 88 



on the Traces of a Bilingual Town (Danish and Angle) in 



England gc( 



