CONTENTS. 



CONTENTS OF No. LXIX, N.S., JANUARY, 1878. 

 MEMOIRS: 



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On the Hinged Teeth of the Common Pike, By Charles S. 

 Tomes, M.A. (With Plate I) .... 1 



Note on tlie Movements of the Vibracula in Caberea Boryi, and 

 on the Supposed Common Nervous System in the Polyzoa. 

 By the Rev. Thomas Hincks, B.A., F.R.S. ... 7 



The Development of the Cranial Nervous in the Chick, By 

 A. MiLNES Marshall, D.Sc., B,A,, Fellow of St. John's Col- 

 lege, Cambridge, (With Plates II and III) . . .10 



A Contribution to the History of the Embryonic Development 

 of the Teleostean Fishes. By Ed. Van Beneden. (With 

 Plate IV) . . . . . . .41 



On the Homologies of the Suspensor. By Sydney H. Vines, 

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

 bridge. (With Plate V) . . . . .58 



The Red Vascular Fluid of the Earthworm a Corpusculated 

 Fluid. By E, Ray Lankestee, M.A,, F.R.S. . . 68 



The Contractile Filaments of Amanita {Agaricus) muscaria and 

 Dipsacus Sylve&iris. By Francis Darwin, M.B. . . 74 



On Atmospheric Bacteria, By G, F. Dowdeswell, B.A., 

 Cantab. . . . . . . .83 



REVIEW: 



Reichenbach's Researches on the Early Development of the 

 Freshwater Crayfish, By T. Jeffeey Parker, Associate of 

 the Royal School of Mines. (With Plate VI) . . 85 



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