TROCEEDINGS 



OP THB 



ROYAL SOCIETY OF EDINBURGH. 



SESSION 1856-57. 



CONTENTS. 



Monday, \st December 1866. 



PAOB 



Opening Address, Session 1856-57. By Bishop Teerot, 398 

 On the Minute Structure of the Involuntary Muscular Tissue. 



By Joseph Listbr, Esq., F.R.C.S. Eng. and Edinb. 



Communicated by Dr Cheistison, . . 413 



Donations to the Library, . . . . 416 



Monday, 15^ December 1856. 



On the Ovum and Toung Fish of the Salmonidee. By Wil- 

 liam Atrton, Esq. Communicated by Professor Aur- 

 MAN, ...... 428 



Notice of the Vendace of Derwentwater, Cumberland, in a let- 

 ter addressed to Sir William Jardine, Bart., by John 

 Davy, M.D., ..... 429 



On the Races of the Western Coast of Africa. By Colonel 

 LuKB Smyth O'Conitor, C.B., Governor of the Gambia. 

 Communicated by Professor Kblland, . . 429 



Donations to the Library, .... 433 



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