CONTENTS. XI 



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 Mr. Roland Thimen on a curious Soutli-Afiicau Grasshopper, Trachypetra 

 bufo (White), which mimics with much precision the appearance of the 



stones among which it lives 13-4 



Professeur Van Beneden sur les Chauves-souris de I'^poque du Mammouth 

 et de I'epoque actuelle 13*5 



The Rev. R. B. Watson's Notes on Dredging at Madeira 137 



Anatomy and Physiology. 



Professor A. Buchanan on the Pressure of the Atmosphere as an Auxiliary 

 Force in carrying on the Circulation of the Blood 137 



Dr. John Chiene's Experimental Inquiry into some of the Resxilts of Inocu- 

 lation in the lower Animals 138 



Professor W. H. Flower on the Composition of the Carpus of the Dog .... 138 



Dr. Arthitr Gamgee on the Magnetic and Diamagnetic Properties of the 

 Blood 138 



Sir Duncan Gibb on the Uses of the Uvula 139 



on some Abnormalities of the Larynx 139 



Professor Humphry on the Caudal and Abdominal Muscles of the Crypto- 

 branch 140 



Mr. E. Ray Lankesteh on the Existence of Haemoglobin in the Muscular 

 Tissue, and its relation to Muscular Activity 140 



Mr. B. T. LowNE on the Ciliated Condition of the Inner Layer of the Blasto- 

 derm in the Ova of Birds and in the Omphalo-mesenteric Vessels 140 



Professor A. Macalisteh on the Bearing of Muscular Anomalies on the Dar- 

 winian Theory of the Origin of Species 140 



Dr. M'Kendbiok on a New Form of Tetanometer , 140 



Dr. William Mahcet on the Nutrition of Muscular and Pulmonary Tissue 

 in Health and in Phthisis, with Remarks on the Colloid Condition of Mat- 

 ter 140 



Dr. Edward Smith on Dietaries in the Workhouses of England and Wales . 141 



Professor Stbuthers on some Rudimentary Structures recently met with in 

 the Dissection of a large Fin-Whale 142 



on the Cervical Vertebrte in Cetacea 142 



Professor R. H. Traquair on the Restoration of the Tail in Protopterus an- 

 nectens 143 



Dr. J. Batty Tuke and Professor Rutherford on tlie Morbid Appearances 

 noticed in the Brains of Insane People 144 



Professor Turner on the Placentation in the Cetacea 144 



's Notes on the Cervical Vertebrae of Steypirethyr {JBala- 



noptera Sihbaldii) 144 



Dr. M. Watson's Contributions to the Anatomy of the Thoracic Viscera of 

 the Elephant 144 



Anthropology. 



Professor Turner's Address to the Department of Anthropology 144 



Dr. John Beddoe on the Anthropolygy of the Merse 147 



on Degeneration of Race in Britain 148 



Dr. Charnock on Le Sette Communi, a German Colony in the neighbourhood 

 of Viceuza 148 



