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Elower, William Henry, LL.D., F.R.S., F.L.S., President 



of the Society, Conservator of tlie Museum of the Royal 



College of Surgeons, and Hunterian Professor. 



On the Mutual Affinities of the Animals composing the 

 Order Edentata 358 



Remarks on the death of Charles Darwin 390 



On the Cranium of a new Species of Hyperoodon from the 

 Australian Seas 392 



Exhibition of, and remarks upon, the Skull of a young 

 Chimpanzee 634 



Exhibition of a photograph (presented to the Society l)y 

 James Farmer, F.Z.S.) of Seal Point, Farallone Islands .. 722 



On the Whales of the Genus Hyperoodon 722 



Forbes, William Alexander, B.A., F.L.S., F.Z.S., 

 Prosector to the Society. 

 Exhibition of the horns of a Prongbuck, and remarks upon 

 the shedding of them 1 



Note on the Gall-bladder, and some other Points in the 

 Anatomy of the Toucans and Barbets {Capitonidce) 91 



On some Points in the Anatomy of the Indian Darter 

 {Plotus melanogaster), and on the Mechanism of the Neck 

 in the Darters (Plotus), in connexion with their Habits. . . . 208 



Description of the Pterylosis of Mesites, with Remarks on 

 the Position of that Genus 267 



On some Points in the Anatomy of the Great Anteater 

 {Myrmecoi^haga jubata). (Plate XV.) 287 



Note on a Peculiarity in the Trachea of the Twelve-wired 

 Bird-of-Paradise (Seleucides nigra) 333 



On the Convoluted Trachea of two Species of Manucode 

 (Manucodia atra and Phonygama gouldi) ; with Remarks on 

 similar Structures in other Birds 347 



Note on an Abnormal Specimen of Pithecia satanas .... 442 



