CONTENTS. 



CONTENTS OF No. CIX, N.S., AUGUST, 1887. 



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The Anatomy of the Madreporaria : III. By G. Herbert Fowler, 

 B.A.Oxon., Ph.D., Berkeley Fellow of the Owens College, Man- 

 chester. (With Plates I and II) . ... .1 



On the Anatomy of Mussa and Euphyllia, and on the Morphology 

 of the Madreporarian Skeleton. By G. C. Bourne, B.A., F.L.S., 

 Assistant to the Linacre Professor in the University of Oxford. 

 (With Plates III and IV) 21 



On the Intra-ovarian Egg of some Osseous Fishes. By Robert 

 Scharff, Ph.D., B.Sc. (With Plate V) 53 



Observations on the Structure and Distribution of Striped and Un- 

 striped Muscle in the Animal Kingdom, and a Theory of Muscular 

 Contraction. By C. F. Marshall, M.Sc, Piatt Physiological 

 Scholar in the Owens College, Manchester. (With Plate VI) . 75 



On the Fate of the Muscle-Plate, and the Development of the Spinal 

 Nerves and Limb Plexuses in Birds and Mammals. By A. M. 

 Paterson, M.D., Senior Demonstrator of Anatomy, and Lecturer 

 in Dental Anatomy and Physiology, in the Owens College, Man- 

 chester. (With Plates VII and VIII) . . . .109 



Note on the Ciliated Pit of Ascidians and its Relation to the Nerve- 

 ganglion and so-called Hypophysial Gland ; and an Account of the 

 Anatomy of Cynthia rustica (?). By Lilian Sheldon, 

 Bathurst Student, Newnham College, Cambridge. (With Plates 

 IX and X) 131 



The Tongue and Gustatory Organs of Mephitis mephitica. By 

 Frederick Tuckerman, M.D.Harv., Amherst, Mass., U.S.A. 

 (With Plate XI) 149 



On the Quadrate in the Mammalia. By Dr. G. Baur, of New 

 Haven, Conn. ....... 169 



