IV CONTENTS. 



^■OTES AND MEMORANDA: 



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The Microscopic Appearances of Medullated Nerve Fibre . 96 

 Bizzozero and Salvioii on the Structure and on the Lymphatics 



of Human Serous Membranes .... 101 



The Lymphatics of Bone ..... 103 



PROCEEDINGS OF SOCIETIES: 



Dublin Microscopical Society ..... 105 



CONTENTS OF No. LXX, N.S., APEIL, 1878. 



MEMOIRS : 



On the Phenomena accompanying the Maturation and Impregna- 

 tion of the Ovum. By F. M. Balfour, M.A., Fellow of 

 Trinity College, Cambridge ..... 109 



Notes on the Structure and Development of Osseous Tissue. 

 (From the Physiological Laboratory of University College, 

 London.) By E. A. Schafer. (With Plates VII and VIII) . 132 



Recent Researches into the Nature of Lichens. By Sydney H. 

 Vines, B.A., B.Sc, Fellow and Lecturer of Christ's College, 

 Cambridge. (With Plate IX) . . . .144 



On the Endothelium of the Body-Cavity and Blood-Vessels 

 of the Common Earthworm, as demonstrated by Silver- 

 Staining. By D'Arcy Power, Exeter College, Oxford. (With 

 Plate X) 158 



On the Life History of Bacillus anthracis. By J. Cossar Ewart, 

 M.B., University College, London. (With Plate XI) . 161 



Experimental Contribution to the Etiology of Infectious Diseases, 

 with special reference to the Doctrine of Contagium vivum. 

 By E. Klein, M.D., F.R.S. (With part of Plate XI) . 170 



On the Nature of Fermentation. The Introductory Address 

 delivered in King's College, London, at the opening of the 

 Session, Oct. 1st., 1877. By Joseph Lister, F.R.S., Pro- 

 fessor of Clinical Surgery in, and Surgeon to, King's College 

 Hospital, &c. 177 



NOTES AND MEMORANDA : 



On the Concentric Bodies of the Thymus. By Dr. B. Afanas- 

 SIE"W, of St. Petersburg. Anatomical Institute at Strasburg . 195 



The Iodine Reaction of the Cells of Cartilage and Notochord. 

 By Professor E. Neumann, of Konigsbcrg, in Prussia . 196 



