CONTENTS. XI 



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 Pioiessor Phillips's Notice of the Post-glacial Gravels of the Valley of the 

 Thames 129 



Mr. T. A. Readwin on the Gold of North Wales 129 



Mr. Richardson on the Details of the Carboniferous Limestone, as laid open 

 by the Railway Cutting and Tunnel near Almondsbury, north of Bristol 130 



Mr. J. W. Salter on the Nature of SigillaricB, and on the Bivalve Shells of 

 the Coal 131 



Mr. R. H. Scott on the Granitic Rocks of Donegal, and the Minerals asso- 

 ciated therewith 131 



Mr. Harry Seeley on the Elsworth Rock, and the Clay above it 132 



Rev. W. S. Symonds on some Phenomena connected with the Drifts of the 

 Severn, Avon, Wye, and Usk 133 



Professor Vaughan on Subterranean Movements 134 



Mr. W. Whincopp on the Red Crag Deposits of the County of Suffolk, con- 

 sidered in relation to the finding of Celts, in France and England, in the 

 Drift of the Post-Pliocene Period 134 



Messrs. J. T. Wilkinson and J. Whitaker on the Burnley Coal-field and 

 its Fossil Contents 135 



Mr. A. B. Wynne on the Geology of Knockshigowna in Tipperary, Ireland... 135 



Mr. J. Yates on the Excess of Water in the Region of the Earth about New 

 Zealand : its Causes and Effects 136 



BOTANY AND ZOOLOGY, including PHYSIOLOGY. 



Remarks by Professor Babington (Chairman) 137 



Dr. T. Alcock on some Points in the Anatomy of Cyprcea 137 



Dr. Philip P. Carpenter on the Cosmopolitan Operations of the Smith- 

 sonian Institution 137 



on the Variations of Tecturella grandis 137 



Dr. John Cleland on the Anatomy of Orthagoi-iscun Mola, the short Sunfish 138 



Mr. CuTHBERT Collingwood's Scheme to induce the Mercantile Marine to 

 assist in the Advancement of Science by the intelligent Collection of Objects 

 of Natural History from all parts of the Globe 138 



Mr. J. CouBURN on the Culture of the Vine in the Open Air 140 



Mr. W. Danson on Barragudo Cotton from the Plains of the Amazon, and on 

 the Flax-fibre Cotton of North America 140 



Professor Daubeny on the Functions discharged by the Roots of Plants ; and 

 on a Violet peculiar to the Calamine Rocks in the neighbourhood of Aix-la- 

 Chapelle 141 



on the Influence exerted by Light on the Function of 



Plants 141 



Mr. H. Fawcett on the Method of Mr. Darwin in his Treatise on the Origin 

 of Species 141 



Mr. George D. Gibe on the Arrest of Puparial Metamorphosis of Vanessa 

 Antiopa or Camberwell Beauty 143 



Dr. J. E. Gray on the Height of the Gorilla 143 



Mr. H. L. Grindon on the Flora of Manchester 145 



Rev. H. H. HiGGiNS on the Arrangement of Hardy Herbaceous Plants adopted 

 in the Botanic Gardens, Liverpool 145 



