CONTENTS. XI 



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Dr. Edwards Cbisp's Contri'butions to the Anatomy of the Quadrumana, with 

 a Comparative Estimate of the Intelligence of the Apes and Monkej's .... 92 



• on the Anatomy of the Stridhionidce, Ostriches, Rheas, 



and Casuaries 92 



Mr. J. E. Daniel on the MoUusca of Bath, and an account of Parasites foimd 

 in Anodon cygnea 93 



Dr. John Davy's Obsei-vations on the Salmonidas, chiefly relating to their 

 Generative Power 93 



Mr. F. G.\LTON, First Steps towards the Domestication of Animals 93 



Dr. Geobge Duncan Gibb on the Essential Points of Difference between the 

 Lai-jTix of the Negro and that of the White Man 94 



Dr. J. E. Gbat on the New Corals from the Shetlands 95 



's Notes on the Whalebone Wliales ; with a Synopsis of the 



Species 95 



Mr. C. Ottbey Gboom on the Food of Birds 95 



Dr. W. Bird Herapath on the Pedicellarise of the Echinodermata 95 



on the Genus Synapta 97 



Mr. Samtjel Highley on the Application of Photography and the Magic 

 Lantern to Class Demonstrations in Microscopic Science and Natural 

 History 98 



Eev. Thomas Hincks on some New Hydroid Zoophytes, and on the Classifica- 

 tion and Terminology of the Hydroida 98 



on the Medusoid of a Tubularian Zoophyte, and its Re- 



tiu-n to a fixed Condition after the Liberation of the Ova 99 



Mr. J. Gavyn Jeffreys's Remarks on Stilifer, a Genus of quasi-Parasitic 

 Mollusks, with particulars of the European Species, S. TuHoni 99 



Mr. T. Johnson's Account of the Successful Accomplishment of the Plan to 

 transport Salmon-Ova to Australia 99 



Mr. E. R. Lankester on the Genus Pteraspis 100 



Mr. W. A. Sanford's Notice of a New British Ehizopod and some other 

 Marine Animals 100 



Dr. Scott on the Turdm torquattts as observed in Devonshire 100 



Mr. Harry Seeley on the Significance of the Septa and Siphuncles of 

 Cephalopod Shells 100 



Physiology. 



Address by Dr. Edward Smith, LL.B., F.R.S., President of the Subsection . 101 



Mr. Francis Barham on the Alimentary Character of Nitrogen Gaa 117 



Dr. J. Hughes Bennett on the Physiological Aspect of the Sewerage Ques- 

 tion 117 



's Description of M. Marey's New Sphygmograph .... 119 



Dr. R. Boyd's Observations on the Measurements of the Head and Weight 

 of the Brain in 696 cases of Insanity 119 



Dr. L. T. a. Carter on the Lymphatics in the Liver of Man and the Pig . . 119 



Dr. T. Spencer Cobbold on Food as a Source of Entozoa 119 



Dr. Edwards Crisp on Valves in the Abdominal Veins 120 



; on the Size of the Blood-corpuscle in relation to the Size 



of the Animal, its Swiftness and Powers of Endurance 121 



