CONTENTS. 



SESSION CXIV. 



Opening Address on Biological Nomenclature, by R. H. Traquair, 



M.D., F.R.S., . 275 



Method of Consolidating and Preparing Thin Sections of Friable and 



Decomposed Rocks, etc., by F. G. Pearcey. [Plate XL], . . 295 



Exhibition and Remarks upon a Specimen of Larus Kumlieni (Brewster), 



from Cumberland Inlet; also specimens of Sabine's Gull, etc., by 



John A. Harvie-Brown, F.R.S.E., President, . . .301 



Recent Additions to the Invertebrate Fauna of the Firth of Forth, by 



J. R. Henderson, M.B., . . . . . .307 



On Loligopsis and some other Genera, by W. E. Hoyle, M.A., F.R.S.E., 313 

 On Fossil Bones of Mammals obtained during Excavations at Silloth, 



by Professor Wm. Turner, M.B., F.R.S., . . . .333 



On the Geology of the Silloth Dock, by Hugh Miller, F.G.S., . . 338 



On some Modifications of Recording Apparatus for Physiological Purposes, 



by R. Milne Murray, M. A., M.B. [Plates XII. -XV.], . . 345 



Remarks on the Ovary of Echidna, by Frank E. Bedbard, M.A., 



F.R.S.E., etc. [Plates XVI., XVII.], .... 354 



On Reproduction of Lost Parts and Abnormality, by Professor J, Duns, 



D.D., F.R.S.E., President, ...... 363 



Notes on the Structure of a New Species of Earthworm belonging to the 



Genus Acanthodrilus (E. P.), by Frank E. Beddard, M.A., F.Z.S., 369 

 Notes on the Anatomy of the Myriapoda, by T. D. Gibson-Carmichael, 377 

 On the Aeration of Marine Aquaria, by George Brook, F.L.S., etc. 



[Plates XVIIL, XIX.], 381 



Investigations on the Movements and Food of the Herring, with 



additions to the Marine Fauna of the Shetland Islands, by F. G. 



Pearcey. [Plate XX.], . . . . . .389 



On some New or Little -Known Lycopods from the Carboniferous 



Formation, by Robert KiDSTON, E.G. S. [Plate XXL], . .. 415 



Note on the Paired Dorsal Vessel of Certain Earthworms, by F. E. 



Beddard, M. A., F.Z.S. [Plate XXI L] 424 



Notes on the Birds of the Island of Eigg, by Wm. Evans, F.R.S.E., . 430 

 Note on the Breeding of the Marsh Tit {Parus palustris) in Stirlingshire 



during 1884, by Wm. Evans, F.R.S.E., . . . . 448 



Note on the Contents of Two Bits of Clay from the Elephant Bed at 



Kilmaurs in 1817, by James Bennie, . . . .451 



Observations on Living Cephalopoda (Abstract), by W. E. Hoyle, M.A., 



F.R.S.E., 459 



Note on Loligo Forbesii, Steenstrup, the so-called L. vulgaris of our coasts, 



by W. E. Hoyle, M.A., F.R.S.E 459 



Caseous Tumours found in the Muscles of the Hake, by G. Sims 



WooDHEAD, M.D. [Plate XXIIL], ..... 462 

 Caseous Ulcer in Skin of Cod, by G. Sims Woodhead, M.D. 



[Plates XXIIL, XXI v.] 470 



On the Chemical Composition of some Samples of Scotch Ensilage, by 



W. Ivison Macadam, F.C.S., etc., . . . . .477 



Note on the Presence of Certain Diatoms in a Town Water Supply, by 



W. Ivison Macadam, F.C.S., etc., .... 4.S3 



The North-West Coasts of Sutherland and their Bird Life, by J. A. 



Harvie-Brown, F.R.S.E., etc., President, . . . . 485 



Ornithological Records, by J. A. Harvie-Browk, F.R.S.E., . 305,498 



