INDEX. 



521 



Oken, views on cephalic limbs held by 

 Carus, 193 



Olfactory chambers in head of birds, 

 153 ; sense, its seat, 168 



Operculum of the shell, its importance 

 in regulating the form, 210, 211 



Opuntia, current passing from stamen 

 to pistil at time of flowering, 315 



Organic electricity, present state of, 

 306-350 



Organised and inorganised bodies, dif- 

 ference in the mode of studying, 207 



Organs that have once acted an im- 

 portant part never altogether dis- 

 appear so long as they do not inter- 

 fere with other functions, 39 



Osseous texture, 461 



Ossific juice repairing injury in ele- 

 phant's tusk, Blumenbach's opinion, 

 58 



Ossification round balls in tusks of 

 elephant, 60 



Owen (Professor) on the relations of the 

 endo and exo-skeleton, 79 ; structure 

 of head of dodo, dinornis, apteryx, etc., 

 152-154 ; views on limbs, remarks of 

 Goodsir on, 198 ; description of a 

 microscopic entozoon infesting the 

 muscles of the human body, referred 

 to, 494 ; on the anatomy of Distoma 

 clavatum, 499 

 Owl, bones of the head, 152 



PACraion electrical diaphragms, 290,291, 



292, 302, 303 



Pagurus, generative organs of, 431, 432 

 Palatal arch and pterygoids in the bird 



158, 160 ; in reptiles and amphibians, 



160 

 Palate-bone of bird, lacertian, and am 



phibian, 136 

 Parelectronomic layer of Du Bois Eey 



mond, 327 

 Patella, movements and relations of, as 



observed by Goodsir, 223-227 

 Patella vulgata, liver of, 415 

 Peach and apricot, electrical current in 



315 

 Pecten opercularis, bile-like fluid in 



pouches, 414 

 Pectoralina hebraica, a composite ani 



mal, 360 

 Peptome, peptatome, terms of Goodsir's 



86 

 Periosteum as an element in formation 



and economy of bone, 463, 465, 470 

 Permanent teeth of independent origin, 



51 ; developed from inner surface of 



cavities of reserve, 53 



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eyer's glands, Boehm and Krause on, 

 413 ; patches, ulceration of, in con- 

 tinued fever, 372-378 

 Phallusia vulgaris, hepatic organ of, 



415 

 Photaesthetic bodies of retina, 275, 278 ; 



surface, 278 

 Photogenic rays, 277 

 Pig, follicular stage of dentition in, 53 ; 



gastric glands in, Wasmann on, 413 

 Pirena prunum, hepatic organ of, 414 

 Pituitary body, Eathke on, 82 

 Placenta (human), Goodsir's memoir on 



the structure of, 445-460 

 Plant, soil, and atmosphere, electrical 



reactions of, 309 



Polarisation of nerve, to what is it due ? 

 336 



Positive" movement in joints, 249 

 Post-stomal cephalic sclerotomes, 175- 



197 



Potato, electrical currents in tubers, 313 

 Pouillet's experiments on electrical deve- 

 lopment in young plants, 308 ; in old 

 plants, 309 



Prawn, seminal fluid, 434 

 Pre-sphenoidal sclerotome, 148-158 ; in 

 birds, 149-154 ; in chelonians, 154 ; 

 in crocodiles, 154 ; in lizards, 155 ; 

 in ophidians and batrachia, 155 ; in 

 fish, 156 ; haemal arch in fishes, 163 

 Primary or fibrous sclerome, 93 ; se- 

 creting cell, 417 

 Primitive dental groove, 27-30 

 Principal frontal of birds, what, 149 

 Proboscidian mammals, simplification of 



sclerotome in, 111 



Proboscis of elephant and tapir more 

 than a mere elongation of external 

 nose, 111 

 Progressive development, phases through 



which the tooth-pulp passes, 30 

 Proximal margin in movements of joints, 



248 



Pterygoid in fishes, 164 

 Pulmonic blood, electric relations of, 



322 

 Pulps and sacs of human teeth, their 



origin and development, 1-52 

 Purkinje on secreting function of part of 

 the gland-ducts, 412 



QUADRATE-JUGAL bone of bird, Owen's 

 analysis, 189 



KABBIT, follicular stage of dentition in, 



53 

 JRaia, tail of, peculiar structure on the 



sides of, 295 



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