CONTENTS. XV 



FRIDAY, AUGUST 29. 



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1. Fourth Report of the Committee for the Investigation of the Natural 



History of Timor Laut 761 



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

 joining Mountains of Eastern Equatorial Africa 761 



3. Report of the Committee for arranging for the occupation of a Table at 

 the Zoological Station at Naples 761 



4. Report on the Record of Zoological Literature 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 Gray 762 



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



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



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



O. C. Marsh 763 



10. On the Rudimentary Hind-Limb of the Tay "Whale, Megaptera longimana. 



By Professor J. Strtjthers, M.D 766 



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

 Louis Elsberg, A.M., M.D 766 



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



Unity of Type in Variation of the Origin and Insertion of certain 

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

 M.A., F.R.S ;. \ 767 



MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 1. 



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



By Professor D. J. Cunningham, M.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. H. Caldwell 768 



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



5. An Attempt to exhibit Diagrammatically the several Stages of Evolution 



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



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

 inhabiting Continental and Oceanic Islands. By G. E. Dobson M A 



ivr.s :....:..:: 770 



7. On the Geographical Distribution of the Laridae (Gulls and Terns), with 

 special reference to Canadian Species. By Howard Saunders, F.L.S.... 771 



8. Result of the Investigations of Insular Floras. By W. B. Helmsley 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 



