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FRIDAY, AUGUST 29. 



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1. Fourth Report of the (.'ommittee for the Investi',''ation of tlie Natural 



I listory of Timor Laut 761 



2. Report of the Committee for the Exploration of Kilima-njuro and the ad- 

 joiiiinjj; Mountains of Eastern Equatorial Africa 761 



3. Report of the Committee for arranginy: for the occupation of a Table at 

 the Zoolofrical Station at Naples 761 



4. Report on the Record of Zoological Literat ure 761 



5. Report of the Committee for preparing a Bibliography of certain Groups 



of Invertebrata .' 762 



6. Report on the Migration of Birds 762 



7. On the Characteristic Features of North American Vegetation. By Pro- 



fessor Asa Grav 762 



8. On the Identity of the Animals and Plants of India which are mentioned 



by early Greek Authors. By V. Bai.i,, M.A., F.R.S 762 



9. On the Classification and Affinities of Dinosaurian Reptiles. Bv Professor 



0. C. Marsh '. 763 



10. On the Rudimentary Iliiid-Limb of the Tay Whale, Mofjaptera lomjimana. 



By Professor J. STRurnERs, M.D ". '. '. 766 



11. Note on the occurrence of Bacteria on the Surface of Coins. By Professor 



Louis Elsberg, A.M., M.U 766 



12. On the Comparative Variableness of linnes and Muscles, with Remarks on 



I'nity of Type in Variation of the Origin and Insertion of certain 

 Muscles in Species unconnected by Unity of Descent. By G. E. Uobson, 

 M.A., F.R.S 767 



MONDAY, HKPTEMliER 1. 



1. On the Value of Nerve-Supplv in the Determination of Muscular Anomalies. 



By Professor D. J. Cunningham, xM.D 768 



2. On the Mutual Relation of the Recent Groups of Echinoderms. By Pro- 

 fessor A. Milnes Marshall, M.D 768 



3. On the Foetal Membranes of the Marsupials. By W. II. Calpwell 768 



4. On the Progress of his Investigations in Australia. By W. II. Caldwell 768 



5. An Attempt to exhibit Diagrammaticallv the several Staires of Evolution 



of the Mammalia. By G. E. Dobsox, M.A., F.R.S 768 



0. On some Peculiarities in the Geographical Distribution of certain Mammals 

 inhabiting Continental and Oceanic Islands. Bv (i. E. Dobsox, M.A., 

 F.R.S. ■ 770 



7. On the Geographical Distribution of the Larida; (Culls and Terns), with 



special reference to ('anadian Species. By IIowaud Saunders, F.L.S.... 771 



8. Result of the Investigations of Insular Floras. By W. B. IIelmsley 772 



9. Some Observations on the direct descendants of Bos Primigenius in Great 



Britain. By G. P. Hughes 772 



10. On Natural Co-ordination, as evinced in Organic Evolution. By Dr. W. 

 Fraser , ' 772 



