X CONTENTS. 



Page 

 Mr. W. A. Sanfobd's Notice of Carnassial and Canine Teeth from the Mendip 

 Caverns, probably belonging to Felis antiqua (sj'n. Pardus) 69 



Mr. Harby Seeley on the Pterodactyle as Evidence of a new Subclass of 

 Vertebrata (Saurornia) 69 



on the Significance of the Sequence of Rocks and Fossils 69 



Mr. W. W. Smyth on the Thermal Water of the Clifford Amalgamated Mines 

 of Cornwall 70 



Mr. H. C. Sorby on the Conclusion to be drawn from the Physical Structure 

 of some Meteorites 70 



Mr. W. W. SroDDART on the Lowest Beds of the Clifton Carboniferous Series 71 



Professor Tennant on Agates found on our Coasts 72 



Rev. H. B. Tbistbam on a Bone Breccia with Flints in Lebanon 72 



on the Sulphur and Bitumen Deposit at the South-West 



Comer of the Dead Sea 73 



Mr. Henry Woodward on the Family of the Eurypteridae, with Descrip- 

 tions of some New Genera and Species 73 



Dr. Thomas Wbight on the Development of Ammonites 73 



on the ^Tiite Lias of Dorsetshire 75 



BOTANY AND ZOOLOGY, including PHYSIOLOGY. 



Address by Dr. J. E. Gray, F.R.S., President of the Section 75 



Botany. 



Professor Balfour's Notice of some Rare Scotch Plants 86 



Professor Buckman on a Curious Form of Aquilegia vulgaris 86 



on Datura Stramonium and Datura Tatula 87 



Dr. Daubeny on the Decay of Species, and on the Natural Provisions for Ex- 

 tending their Dm-ation 87 



Mr. M. MoGGRiDGE on the Old Welsh Mistletoe Cure for St Vitus's Dance . . 87 



Dr. MiJLLER on Etiphorbiacece 87 



Dr. R. Riddell on Balatta and other Gums regarded as a Substitute for Gutta 



Percha 87 



Zoology. 



Dr. Baikie on the Mamitm Vogelii. (Extract of a Letter to Sir .Tohn Ri- 

 chardson.) 88 



Mr. C. Spence Bate on an Ancient Cornish Barrow 88 



. on a Human Skull and the Bones of Animals foimd with 



Pottery in a Kjokkenmodden on the Coast of Cornwall 88 



Mr. Richard Beck's Observations on the Spinnerets of Spiders 88 



Dr. B. Beddoe on the Testimony of Local Phenomena to the Permanence of 



. Type 89 



Mr. Frank Buckland on the Natural History and Cultivation of the Oyster 89 



on Salmon-hatchmg and Salmon-ladders 90 



Mr. G. Busk on a veiy Ancient Human Cranium from Gibraltar 91 



