PEINCIPAL CONTEIBUTORS TO THIS VOLUME. 



O. V. Aplin, Bodicote, Banburj'. 



E. W. Badger, Birmingham. 

 J. E. Bagnall, Birmingham. 

 Montagu Browne, F.L.S., Leicester. 



C. Callaway, M.A., D.Sc, F.G.S., Wellington. 



Rev. J. Caswkll, Oscott. 



G. C. DuDCE, F.L.S., Oxford. 



F. Enock, Ferndale, Woking Station. 

 Rev. O. M. Feilden, M.A., Frankton. 

 W. B. Grove, B.A., Birmingham. 

 Egbert de Hamel, Tamworth. 



W. J. Harrison, F.G.S., Birmingham. 

 C. T. Hudson, M.A., LL.D., F.R.M.S., Clifton. 

 T. Macaulay, M.R.C.S.L., Kibworth, Leicester. 

 Hugh A. Macpherson, B.A., Oxford. 



A. MiLNEs Marshall, M.A., M.D., D.Sc, Manchester. 

 W. P. Marshall, M.I.C.E., Birmingham. 



Rev. H. MiLNES, Wiuster. 



W. Phillips, F.L.S., Shrewsbury. 



J. Saunders, Luton. 



G. Sherriff Tye, Birmingham. 

 J. Shipman, Nottingham. 

 Worthington G. Smith, F.L.S., London. 

 W. South.all, F.L.S., Birmingham. 

 John Spiller, F.C.S. 



Appleby Stephenson, M.D., Nottingham. 



B. Thompson, F.C.S., F.G.S., Northampton. 

 Rev. C. F. Thornewill, M.A., Burton-on-Trent. 



W. Whitaker, B.A., F.G.S., H.M. Geological Survey. 

 SiLVANUS Wilkins, Birmingham. 

 E. Wilson, F.G.S., Nottingham. 



C. J. Woodward, B.Sc, Birmingham. 



H. B. Woodw.ard, F.G.S., H.M. Geological Survey. 



C. L. Wragge, F.M.S., F.R.G.S., Farley, near Cheadle. 



ILLUSTRATIONS IN VOLUME V. 



PLATES. 



Funiculina quadrangularis . . 



The Myxomycetes . . 

 Pennatula phosphorea 

 Virgularia mirabilis 



PAGE. 



Plate I., to face 1 

 Plate II., „ 25 

 Plate IIa., „ 97 

 Plate IIL, „ 121 

 Plate IV.. „ 217 



CORRECTIONS. 



Page 1, 2.5 — The date of the Oban Marine Excursion should be 

 July (not August) 1881. 

 ,, 31 — Transfer bottom line to page 85 and insert it above second 



line from bottom of page. 

 „ 36— Lines 9 to 11, read 0-014in. by O.OOlin., 0-003in. by 0-002in. 

 ,, 45 — Delete heading " Review." 

 ,, 77 — Line 9, for y^th read ^-jj^^jth. 

 , 97— Note at foot of page, for Plate III. read Plate IIa. 



