proceedings 

 r'oyal physical* 'S^ 



PROMOTION OF ZOOLOGY AND OTHER BRANCHES OF 

 NATURAL HISTORY. 



SESSION 1904-1905. 



No. 3. Vol. XVI. Pages 49-96. 



CONTENTS. 



PAGE 



The Black-backs of the Ba.ss—ConHnued. By William Evans, F.R.S.E., 



M.B.O.U., . . . . . . . . . . .49 



On the Distribution of the Pelagic Organisms in Scottish Lakes. By 



James Murray, ... , . 51 



A Possible Mode of Inheritance of Adaptive Characters. By Cecil B. 



Crampton, M.B., e.M., . . 62 



"Scotia" Collections: Scottish Antarctic Expedition. — Report f)n the 



Antipatharians. By Professor J. Arthur Thomson, M.A., . . 76 



Notes on the Lower Carboniferous Fishes of Eastern Fifeshire. By Dr R. 



H. Traquair, F.R.S., F.G.S. [Plate V.], 80 



Tlie Odonata (Dragon-flies) of the Forth Area. By William Evans, 



F.R.S.E., . 87 



-^ EDINBURGH: M'FARLANE & ERSKINE. 

 June 1905. 



