CONTEXTS. IX 



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Dr. Moffat on Geological Systems and Endemic Disease 107 



Dr. James Murie on the Systematic Position of Sivatherium giganteum, Faulc. 

 and Caiit 108 



Mr. C. W. Peach's Additions to the list of Fossils and Localities of the Car- 

 boniferous Formation in and around Edinbm'gh 109 



L'Abb:e Richabd on Hydro-Geology 109 



The Rev. W. S. Symonds on the Contents of a Hyaena's Den on the Great 

 Doward, Whitchurch, Ross 109 



on a New Fish-spine from the Lower Old Red 



Sandstone of Hay, Breconshire 110 



IMr. J. S. Tayxob on the later Crag-Deposits of Norfolk and Suffolk 110 



Mr. Jasies Thomson on the Stratified Rocks of Islay 110 



Prof. Traquair's Additions to the Fossil Vertebrate Fauna of Burdiehouse, 

 near Edinburgh Ill 



Professor W. C. Williamson on the Structure of the Diciyoxyhns of the 

 Coal-measures Ill 



on the Structure of Diploxylon, a Plant of the 



Carboniferous Rocks 112 



Mr. Henry Woodward on the Discovery of a new and very perfect Arachnide 

 from the Ironstone of the Dudley Coal-field 112 



on the Relics of the Carboniferous and other old 



Land-surfaces 113 



BIOLOGY. 



Address by Dr. Axlen Thomson, F.R.SS. L. & R, President of the Section . . 114 



Dr. Charlton Bastian on some new Experiments relating to the Origin of 

 Life 122 



Dr. F. Cbace-Oalvebt on the Action of Heat on Germ-life 122 



on Spontaneous Generation, or Protoplasmic Life . . 12.3 



Dr. John Dougal on the relative Powers of various Substances in preventing 

 the Generation of Animalcules, or the Development of their Germs, with 

 special reference to the Germ Theory of Putrefaction 124- 



Sir Walter Elliot on the advantage of Systematic Cooperation among Pro- 

 vincial Natural-History Societies, so as to make their observations available 

 to Naturalists generally 124 



Dr. Burdon Sanderson and Dr. Ferrier on the Origin and Distribution of 

 Microzymes {Bacteria) in water, and the circumstances which determine 

 their Existence in the Tissues and Liquids of the Living Body 125 



Mr. T. B. Grierson on the Establishment of Local Museums 126 



Botany. 



Professor Balfour on the Cultivation of Ipecacuanha in the Edinburgh Bo- 

 tanic Garden for transmission to India 127 



Mr. Robert Bhot^tst on the Flora of Greenland 128 



on the Geographical Distribution of the Floras of North- 



west America 12 



