CONTENTS OF No. LXXXVIII.-New Series. 



MEMOIRS: 



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On tlie Develo])ment of the European Oyster {Ostrea edulis, L.). By 

 Dr. R. HoKST, of the Utrecht Museum of Zoology, (With Plate 

 XXVII) 341 



Researches on the Morphology and Life-history of a Tropical Pyreno- 

 mycetous Fungus. By H. Maesiiall Ward, B.A., Fellow of Owens 

 College, Victoria University, late Cryptogamist to the Government 

 in Ceylon. (With Plates XXVIII and XXIX) . . .347 



The Thread-cells and Epidermis of Myxine. By J, E. Blomfield, B.A. 

 (With Plate XXX) .355 



The Eye of Spondylus. By Sydney J. Hickson, B.Sc, B.A„ Scholar 

 of Downing College, Cambridge, Assistant to the Linacre Professor, 

 Oxford . . . . . . . .362 



Note on Open Communication between the Cells in the Pulviuus 

 of Mimosa imdica. By Walter Gardiner, B.A., late Scholar of 

 Clare College, Cambridge . . . . . . 365 



Notes on the Development of MoUusca. By Alfred C. Haddon, 

 M.A., Professor of Zoology, Royal College of Science, Dublin. 

 (With Plate XXXI) . ' 367 



Notes on Echinoderm Morphology, No. V. On the Homologies of 

 the Apical System, with some Remarks upon the Blood-vessels. By 

 P. Herbert Carpenter, M.A., Assistant Master at Eton College. 

 (With four Woodcuts) . . . . . .371 



The Vertebration of the Tail of Appendicularise. By E. Ray Lan- 



KESTER, M.A., P.R.S. (With two Woodcuts) . . .387 



Notes on the Structure of Seriatopora, Pocillopora, Corallium, and 

 Tubipora. By Professor H. N. Moseley, F.R.S. (With one 

 Woodcut) 391 



Note on Pacinian Corpuscles. By Vincent Harris, M.D. Lond., 

 Demonstrator of Practical Physiology at St. Bartholomew's Hospital 

 (With Plate XXXII) .' . . . . .399 



REVIEWS 



" Ueber den Bau und das Wachsthum der Zellhaiite." Von Dr. E. 

 Strasburger, Prof, an der Univ. Bonn. Jena, 1882. A Review 

 by H. Marshall Ward, B.A., Fellow of Owens College, Victoria 

 University ........ 401 



Bergh's Researches on the Cilio-llagellata. By Professor T. Jeffrey 

 Parker, of Otago, New Zealand . . . . .416 



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