XIV CONTENTS. 



Page 

 Professor Van der Hoeven, Observations on the Teredo navulis, and the 

 Mischief caused by it in Holland 136 



Professor Huxley on the Development of Pijrosoma 136 



Dr. Charles Kidd on the Nature of Death from the Administration of 

 Anaesthetics, especially Chloroform and Ether, as observed in Hospitals 136 



Dr. Lewis on a Hydro-spirometer 139 



Mr. John Lubbock on the Development of Baccinum 139 



Mr. Archibald MacLaken on the Influence of Systematized Exercise on the 

 Expansion of the Chest 142 



M. Ollier on the Artificial Production of Bone and Osseous Grafts 143 



Dr. C. B. Radcliff's Experiments on Muscular Action from an Electrical point 

 of view 143 



Dr. B. W. Richardson on the Process of Oxygenation in Animal Bodies 143 



Dr. Edward Smith, The Action of Tea and Alcohols contrasted 145 



Dr. J. L. W. Thudichum on the Physiological relations of the Colouring 

 Matter of the Bile .' 14/ 



GEOGRAPHY AND ETHNOLOGY. 



Opening Address by the President, Sir Roderick Impey Murchison 148 



Mr. T. W. Atkinson on the Caravan Routes from the Russian Frontier to 

 Khiva, Bokhara, Kokhan, and Garkand, with suggestions for opening up a 

 Trade between Central Asia and India 153 



on the Caravan Route from Yarkand to Mai-matchin, 



with a Short Account of this Town, through which the Trade is carried on 

 between Russia and China 154 



Capt. Sir E. Belcher on the Manufacture of Stone Hatchets and other Imple- 

 ments by the Esquimaux, illustrated by Native Tools, Arrow-heads, &c 154 



Mr. John Crawfurd on the Aryan or Indo-Germanic Theory of Races 154 



on the Influence of Domestic Animals on the Progress of 



Civilization (Birds) „ 155 



Mr. R. Cull on certain remarkable Deviations in the Stature of Europeans.... 155 



on the Existence of a true Plural of a Personal Pronoun in a 



living European Language 155 



Captain Cybulz on a Set of Relief Models of the Alps, &c 155 



Rev. Professor Graves on the Arrangement of the Forts and DwelliDg-places 

 of the Ancient Irish 156 



Rev. Edw. Hincks on certain Ethnological Boulders and their probable Origin 156 



Professor F. von Hochstetter's New Map of the Interior of the Northern 

 Island of New Zealand, constructed during an Inland Journey in 1859 162 



Dr. J. Hunt on the Antiquity of the Human Race 162 



Mr. V. Hurtado on the Geographical Distribution and Trade in the Cinchona 162 



Rev. Professor Jarrett on Alphabets, and especially the English; and on a 

 New Method of Marking the Sound of English Words, without change of 

 Orthography 163 



Mr. R. Knox on the Origin of the Arts, and the Influence of Race in their 

 Development 163 



Mr. D. A. Lange's brief Account of the Progress of the Works of the Isthmus 

 of Suez Canal , 163 



