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CONTENTS OF No. LXVIII, N.S., OCTOBER, 1877. 



MEMOIKS : 



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The Doctrine of Contagium Vivum and its Application to 

 Medicine. By William Roberts, M.D., F.R.S., Pliysician 

 to the Manchester Royal Infirmary; Professor of Clinical 

 Medicine in Owens College ..... 307 



Resume of Recent Contributions to our Knowledge of "Fresh- 

 water Rhizopoda." Part IV. Rhizopoda Monothalamia 

 Monostomata. Compiled by William Akcher, F.R.S., 

 M.R.I.A. (With Plate XXI) . . . .330 



Loxosoma. By Cakl Vogt, Professor at the University of 

 Geneva. Abstracted and Annotated by the Rev. T. Hincks, 

 P.R.S. (With Plate XXII) . . . .354 



On the Minute Structural Relations of the Red Blood-Cor- 

 puscles. By Professor Arthur Boettcher, of Dorpat. 

 (With Plate XXIII) 377 



Contribution to the Minute Anatomy of the Epidermis in 

 Smallpox of Sheep. By E. Klein, M.D., E.R.S. (With 

 Plate XXIV) 393 



Notes on the Embryology and Classification of the Animal 

 Kingdom : comprising a Revision of Speculations relative 

 to the origin and significance of the Germ-layers. By 

 E. Ray Lankester, M.A., F.R.S., Professor of Zoology and 

 Comparative Anatomy in University College, London. (With 

 Plate XXV) 399 



NOTES AND MEMORANDA : 



Leboucq on the Development and Termination of Nerves in 

 Larval Batrachians . . . . . .455 



PROCEEDINGS OF SOCIETIES: 



Dublin Microscopical Club ..... 461 



