XU CONTENTS. 



Pape 



Dr. Morch on the Scope of Conchological Inquiries 91 



on the Classification of the Mollusca 91 



on the Zoological Affinities of the Mollusca 91 



Mr. Thomas J. Moore's Bemarks on some Improved Methods of Displaying 

 Birds in Public Museums, illustrated by specimens from the Derby Museum 

 at Liverpool 92 



Mr. Edward Newton on a remarkable Discovery of Bones of Didus in the 

 Island of Bodriguez 92 



Bev. A. M. Norman on the Structure and Development of Salpa spmosa, Otto, 

 as observed at Guernsey 92 



Dr. Prideaux, Phrenology, or the Physiology of the Brain, the most impor- 

 tant department of Ethnology 92 



Dr. P. O'Callaghan's Bemarks on a curious preserved Specimen of the Black- 

 bird 92 



Dr. P. L. Sclater on the Birth of a young Hippopotamus in the Zoological 

 Society's Gardens at Amsterdam 93 



Dr. W. B. Scott on the Occurrence of Orcynus alalonga on the Coast of Devon 93 



Mr. H. T. Stainton on the extraordinary partiality shown by Insects of the 

 Genus Laverna for Plants of the Order Onagracece 93 



Bev. W. H. Sterling on the Natives of Patagonia and Terra del Fuego .... 9-4 



Mr. J. Thrupp on the Domestication of certain Animals in England between 

 the Seventh and Eleventh Centimes 94 



Physiology. 



Address by Henry W. Acland, M.D., LL.D., F.B.S., Regius Professor of 

 Medicine in the University of Oxford, President of the Subsection 94 



Dr. Lionel S. Beale on Life 101 



Dr. J. Hughes Bennett on the Formation of Pus, in reference to the doc- 

 trine of Cell Pathology 101 



Dr. Cobbold on Beef and Pork as Sources of Entozoa 102 



's Bemarks on Specimens of Entozoa 102 



Dr. John Davy on the Effects of Scanty and Deficient Diet 102 



— — Is the Opinion that a Diet of Animal Food conduces to Lean- 

 ness well founded on Facts ? 104 



Dr. W. Dickenson on the Functions of the Cerebellum 106 



Dr. Fleming on the Prevalence of Tapeworm in Birmingham, and its Causes 10G 



Dr. A. Gamgee on Experiments confirmatory of those of Kiihne on the Non- 

 existence of Ammonia in Blood 107 



Dr. George Duncan Gibb's Befutation of the View recently propounded that 

 the Food comes into contact with the Vocal Cords in Deglutition 107 



Dr. G. M. Humphry's Bemarks on the Skeleton of a Woman set. 104 108 



Dr. W. H. Lightbody on the Vascular Arrangements of the Cornea 108 



Professor Macdonald on the Development of the Vascular System of the 

 Foetus in the Vertebrata, with the view to determine the true course of the 

 Circulation through the Veins and Arteries of the Hunian Foetus in utero . . 108 



Dr. B. Norris, Bigor Mortis not Muscular Contraction 109 



Mr. Samuel II. Parke s on the Early Development of Organs in Embryonic 

 Life 109 



