CONTENTS. 



SESSION CXV. 



Opening Address by Benjamin N. Peach, Esq., F.G.S., E.ll.S.E., 



President, ........ 1 



On the Occurrence of the Bottle-Nosed or Beaked Wliale {Ilyperuodon 

 rostratics) in the Scottish Seas, with Observations on its External 

 Characters, by Sir William Turner, M.B,, LL.D., F.R.S., Professor 

 of Anatomy, University of Edinburgh ; President of the Royal 

 Physical Society, ....... 25 



On the Hatching of Herring Ova in Deep Water, by J. C. Ewart, Esq., 



M.D., Professor of Natural History, University of Edinburgh, . 47 



On the Species of the Genus Palceoxyris, Brongniart, occurring in British 

 Carboniferous Rocks, by Robert Kidston, Esq., F.R.S.E., F.G.S. 

 [Plate I.], 54 



A Synopsis of the British Paguridse, by J. R. Henderson, Esq., M.B., 



F. L. S. , Professor of Biology, Christian College, Madras, . . 65 



On Abnormal Limbs of Crustacea, by Professor Duns, D.D., F.R.S.E., 



Vice-President. [Plate II.], . . . . • . 75 



On Whitebait, by J. C. Ewart,- Esq., M.D., Professor of Natural 



History, University of Edinburgh, . . . , ,78 



On the Occurrence of Spores in the Carboniferous Formation of Scotland, 

 by James Bennie, Esq., of the Geological Survey of Scotland, and 

 Robert Kidston, Esq., F.R.S.E., F.G.S. [Plates III. -VI.], . 82 



The Birds of Skye, with special reference to the Parish of Duirinish. 

 Part I, 1886, by the Rev. H. A. Macpherson, M.A., Member 

 British Ornithologists' Union, . . . . .118 



Notes on the Sucker Fishes, Liparis and Lepadogaster, by W. Anderson 

 Smith, Esq., Ledaig, N.B., communicated by Mr J. T. Cunningham. 

 [Plate VII.], 143 



The Sense of Touch in Astacus, by G. Lovell Gulland, Esq., M.A., 



B.Sc, M.B., CM. [Plates VIII., IX.], . . . .151 



Description of a Twelve-armed Comatula from the Firth of Clyde, by 



Arthur Dendy, Esq., B.Sc. [Plate X.], . . . .180 



Notes on the Occurrence of the Shorelark {Otocorys alpestris) in East 

 Lothian, by Mr George Pow. [Communicated by William Evans, 

 Esq., F.R.S.E.] (Specimen exhibited), .... 183 



On the Occurrence of the Great Snipe {Scolopax major) near Glasgow in 

 May 1885, by William Evans, Esq., F.R.S.E. (Specimen 

 exhibited), . . . . . . . .184 



Notes on the Occurrence of the Stock Dove and White Wagtail in East 



Lothian, by William Evans, Esq. , ..... 186 



On the Relation of Yolk to Blastoderm in Teleostean Fish Ova, by 

 George Brook, Esq., F.L.S., etc.. Lecturer on Comparative 

 Embryology in the University of Edinburgh, . . . 187 



Notes on Birds observed on various Voyages between England and the 

 Cape of Good Hope, by Spearman Swinburne, Esq. (Communi- 

 cated by J. J. Dalgleish, Esq.), . . . . .193 



Contributions to a Bibliograph}^ of the '^ Sea Serpent," by William E. 



HoYLE, Esq., M.A.(Oxon.), F.R.S.E., . . . .202 



A Catalogue of Recent Cephalopoda, by William E. Hoyle, Esq., 



M.A.(Oxon.), F.R.S.E., 205 



Observations on Cyclopea in the Human Subject and in the Lower 

 Animals, by J. Symington, Esq., M.D., F.R.S.E., and G. Sims 

 WooDHEAD, Esq., M.D., F.R.S.E., . . . . . 268 



Further Notes on the Chemical Composition of Ensilage, by W. Ivison 

 Macadam, Esq., F.C.S., F.I.C., etc., Lecturer on Chemistry, School 

 of Medicine, and Professor of Chemistry, New Veterinary College, 

 Edinburgh, ........ 279 



Further Notes on North Rona, being an Appendix to Mr John Swin- 

 burne's Paper on that Island in the "Proceedings" of this 

 Society, 1883-84, by J. A. Harvie-Brown, Esq., F.R.S.E., etc. 

 [Plate XL], ........ 284 



