276 PROCEEDINGS OF THE CANADIAN INSTITUTE. 
7. Bulletin of the Illinois State Laboratory of Natural History, Normal, 
Illinois, Vol. II., 1884. 
8. Description of a New Species of Crinoids with Articulating Spines, by 
George Jennings Hinde, Ph. D., F.G.S. 
9. Proceedings of the London Mathematical Society, Nos. 231-234. 
10. Verhandlungen der Berliner Gesellschaft fiir Anthropologie, Ethnologie und 
Urgeschichte, Sitzungen vom 18 Oct., 1884, und 15 Noy., 1884. 
11. The National Anthem for India, with Translations into several Oriental 
Languages. 
An Account of the Proceedings of a Meeting held in the National Club, 
Whitehall, with the Speeches in favor of the Anthem Movement. 
Report of a Meeting in Grosvenor House, &c., on the same. 
Presented by Henry Rowsell. Esq. 
Mr. A. McCharles was elected a member. 
Mr. A. B. Macallum, B.A., Fellow of University College, 
read the following paper on 
THE NERVE ENDINGS IN THE CUTANEOUS 
EPITHELIUM OF THE TADPOLE. 
The results attained in the study of this subject have given the 
following : * 
1. There are two plexuses of non-medullated fibres, one wide- 
meshed, placed some distance below the corium, the other very 
narrow-meshed, situated immediately beneath the epithelium, The 
first, which may be termed the primary or fundamental plexus, 
sends up fibres at various distances which pierce the corium and 
unite with the secondary or subepithelial plexus. The meshes of 
the latter are often as narrow as the basal surface of an epithelial 
cell. 
2. From the primary plexus, fibres here and there pass up through 
the corium to terminate in swollen bead-like bodies between the 
epithelial cells. 
3. From the secondary plexus arise minute fibres, which, ascend- 
ing between the epithelial cells, terminate either within the latter 
near their nuclei, or between them, or after branching in both 
fashions. 
4. The fibres which enter cells of the basal and intermediate 
layers of epithelium, are provided with sheathing structures known 
as the Figures of Eberth, which decrease in size as the cells con- 
* The points treated of in the first part of this abstract, are dealt with fully in a paper pub- 
lished in the Quarterly Journal of Microscopical Science for November, 1885. 
