ONTENTS. 



SESSION CXXVII. 



Results of Meteorological Observations taken in Edinburgh during 1897, 

 by R. C. MossMAN, F.R.S.E., F.R.Met.Soc, ... 



Nests, Eggs, and Play-grounds of the Australian Piilonorhynchmce, or 

 Bower-Birds, and their Allies, by Archibald J. Campbell, Esq., 

 Melbourne. [Plated I. JIT.], . . 



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The Summer Birds of the Summer Islands, by J. B. Dobbie, F.R.S.E., 

 F.Z.S., M.B.O.U., . 



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On the Influence of Muscular Attachments in producing Modifications of the 

 Popliteal Surface of the Femur, and Alterations in the Diameters of 

 the Shaft of that Bone in the Popliteal Region, by David Hepburn, 

 M.D., CM., F.R.S.E., Lecturer on Regional Anatomy, University of 

 Edinburgh, : 



On the Validity of Pissodes validirostris (Schoenh.) as a Species, by 

 R. Stewart MacDougall, M.A., D.Sc. 



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DrHeddle, M.D., F.R.S.E., Emeritus Professor of Chemistry at St Andrews. 

 Born 1828; died 19th November 1897, by J. G. Goodchild. H.M. 

 Geol. Survey, F.G.S., F.Z.S., M.B.O.U., 



The Mammalia and Birds of Franz Josef Land, by WitLlAM 'S. Bruce, 

 F.R.S.G.S., and William Eagle Clarke, F.L.S., . . . 



On Some New Myriapods from the Palaeozoic Rocks of jScatland, by B. N. 

 Peach, A.R.S.M., F.R.S., of the Geological purvey -of Scotland. 



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