XU CONTENTS. 



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Dr. John Davy on the Temperature of the Sexes 121 



. 's Observations on the Horse-chestnut (JlSscidus hippocasta- 



neum) 121 



Mr. J. T. Dickson on Cell Theories 122 



Mr. George Frean on the Use of Milk and Scotch Barley as an Ai-ticle of 

 Diet 122 



Mr. R. Garner on the Vocal Organ of the Cortxa, an Aquatic Insect 122 



Dr. George Duncan Gibb on the Various Fonns assumed by the Glottis . . 122 



's Note on the Action of the Bromides of Lithium, 



Zinc, and Lead 123 



Dr. John Goodman on the Functions of the Liver 123 



Mr. Alfred Haviland on the Hour of Death in Acute and Chronic Disease 123 



Dr. Thomas Hayden on the Relative and Special Applications of Fat and 

 Sugar as Respiratory Food 124 



Dr. W. Bird Herapath on the Occurrence of Indigo in Purulent Dis- 

 charges 124 



Dr. T. JuNOD on the Physiological Effects of the Vacuum Apparatus 125 



Mr. C. G. MoNTEiTH on the Lentil as an Article of Food, and its Use from 

 the Earliest Historical Time 125 



Mr. W. E. C. NouBSE on the Action of the Nervous Tissue concerned in Per- 

 ception 125 



Mr. W. T. S. Pbideaux on the Functions of the Cerebellum 125 



Dr. B. W. Richardson on the Inhalation of Oxygen Gas 125 



on the Physiological Effects of Tobacco 126 



Dr. Edward Smith, What is the Best Method of Estimating the Nutritive 

 Values of Foods and Dietaries ? 128 



Dr. J. Thurnam on Obliteration of the Sutures in One Class of Ancient British 

 Skidls 128 



Mr. William Turner on a Supplementary System of Nutrient Arteries for 

 the Lungs 129 



on Cranial Deformities — Trigonocephalus 129 



GEOaEAPHY AND ETHNOLOGY. 



Address of Sir Roderick I. Murchison, K.C.B., D.C.L., LL.D., F.R.S., 

 V.P.G.S., President of the Section 130 



Mr. Keith E. Abbott on the Province of Azerbaijan 136 



Col. Sir James Edward Alexander's Notes on the Maories of New Zea- 

 land, with Suggestions for their Pacification and Preservation 136 



Dr. A. Bastian on the Ethnology of Cambodia 136 



Mr. H. W, Bates on the Delta of the Amazons 137 



Dr. H. Bird's Account of the Human Bones found in Tumidi situated on the 

 Cotteswold Hills I37 



Sir George Bo wen on the Advance of Colonization in North-Eastem Australia 137 



Captain Burton on the Present State of Dahome I37 



on the River Congo 140 



Mr. John Cameron on the Islands of Kalatoa and Puloweh 140 



