CONTENTS. 



SESSION CXIX. 



Opening Address, by Professor J. Geikie, LL.D., D.C.L., F.E.S., 



Vice-President. [Plates VIII., IX.], . . . • 171 



Notes on Crested Birds of Prey, by J. G. Goodchild, Esq., F.Z.S., 



M.B.O.U. [Plate X.], 202 



Zoological Notes, by Frank E. Beddard, Esq., M.A., F.Pt.S.E., F.Z.S., 

 Prosector to the Zoological Society of London, Lecturer on Biology 

 at Guy's Hospital, ....... 208 



Ou the Structure of Coccosteus decipieiis, Agassiz, by Dr R. H. Traquair, 



F.R.S., F.G.S. [Plate XL], 211 



On an Exhalation of Gases, under singular circumstances, from a Bog 



near Strath pefFer, by Hugh Miller, Esq., F.R.S.E., . . 225 



On Phli/ctcenaspis, a new Genus of Coccosteidce, by Dr R. H. Traquair, 



F.R.S., F.G.S. [Plate XIL], . . . . . 227 



The Classification and Distribution of Earthworms, by Frank E. 

 Beddard, M.A., F.R.S.E., F.Z.S., Prosector and Davis Lecturer to 

 the Zoological Society of London ; Lecturer on Biology at Guy's 

 Ho.spitaL [Plates XIIL, XIV.], '. . . . .235 



Notes upon the Marine Accumulations in Largo Bay, Fife, and at 

 Portrush, County Antrim, North Ireland, by Alfred Bell, Esq., 

 London. (Communicated by James Bennie, Esq. ), . . 290 



On the Viscera of a Female Chimpanzee, by J. Symington, Esq., M.D., 

 F.R.S.E., Lecturer on Anatomy, Minto House, Edinburgh; Examiner 

 in Anatomy, University of Edinburgh, .... 297 



Notes on a Small Collection of Fresh -Water Octracoda from the^ 

 Edinburgh District, by Thomas Scott, F.L.S., Naturalist to the 

 Fishery Board for Scotland, . . . . . .313 



The Cubital Coverts of the Euornith?e in Relation to Taxonomy, by J. G. 



Goodchild, H.M. Geol. Survey, F.Z.S., M.B.O.U. [Plate XV.], . 317 



On tlie Occurrence of tlie Anchovy {Engraulis encrasicliolus) in Scottish 



Waters, by Professor J. CossarEwart, M.D., F.R.S.E., . .. 333 



Preliminary Notes on a Post-Tertiary Fresh-Water Deposit at Kirkland, 

 Leven, and at Elie, Fifeshire, by Thomas Scott, F.L.S., Naturalist 

 to the Fishery Board for Scotland, ..... 334 



Notes on the Palaeozoic Species mentioned in Lindlev and Hutton's 



"Fossil Flora," by R. Kidston, F.R.S.E., F.G.S., '. . . :34.-. 



Note on a Recent Exposure of a "Washout" of Strata in New Redhall 

 Quarry, by Jamks Bi;nnie, of the Geological Survey of Scotland. 

 [Plate" XVI.], . . . . . ." . .392 



Note on Pcrichceia indica, an Exotic Species of Earthworm living in 



Hothouses in Ivirkcudbrightsliire, by Robert Skrvick, Esq., . oi'f, 



A Revised List of Bi-itish Echinoidca, by William E. Hoyle, M.A. 



(Oxon.), F.R.S.E., Keeper of the Manchester Museum, . . 39S 



Census of Scottish Land and Fre.sh-Water Mollusca, by Wm. Denisox 

 Roebuck, F.L.S., Recorder to the Conchological Society of Great 

 Britain and Ireland. (Communicated by the SRoiiErABY), . . 437 



