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Mr. H. WooBWARD oij Freshwater Deposits of the Valley of the River Lea, 

 in Essex 103 



BIOLOaT. 



Address by C. Spence Bate, F.R.S., F.L.S., Vice-President of the Section to 

 the Department of Zoology and Botany 104 



Botany and Zoology. 



Miss Lydia E. Becker on alteration in the Structure of Lychnis diurna, ob- 

 served in connexion with the development of a parasitic fungus lOG 



Mr. W. T. Blanford on the Fauna of British India, and its relations to the 

 Ethiopian and so-called Indian Fauna 107 



Dr. BiBDwooD on the genus Boswellia, with Descriptions and Drawings of 

 Three new Species 108 



Mr. C. E. Broome's remarks on a recently discovered Species of Myxogastcr 108 



Mr. R. Brown on the Mammalian Fauna of North-west America 109 



Mr. Frank Buckland on the Salmon Rivers of Devon and Cornwall, and 

 how to improve them HI 



Dr. Robert 0. Cunningham on Chiaris alba HI 



on the Flora of the Strait of Magellan and 



West Coast of Patagonia 112 



Mr. George Gladstone's Microscopical Obsei-vations at Munster am Stein . 113 



Mr. F. F. Hallett on the Laws of the Development of Cereals 113 



Mr. Albany Hancock on some curious Fossil Fungi from the Black Shale of 

 the Northumberland Coal-field 114 



Mr. W. P. Hiern on the Occurrence of Rapistru7n rugosum, All., in Surrev, 

 Kent, and Somersetshire ^ . Hj. 



Dr. Maxwell T. Masters on the Relative Value of the Characters employed 

 in the Classification of Plants 114 



Letter from Prof. Wyville Thomson to the Rev. A. M. Norman on the 

 successful Dredging of H.M.S. ' Porcupine ' Ho 



Mr. W. Pengelly on Whale Remains washed ashore at Babbacombe, South 

 Devon Hq 



Dr. W. R. Scott on a Hybrid or other variety of Perdiv cinerea found in De- 

 vonshire 117 



Mr. Ralph Tate on the Land and Freshwater Mollusca of Nicaragua 117 



The Rev. H. B. Tristram on the Effect of Legislation on the Extinction of 

 Animals Hg 



Mr. W. F. Webb's Five Years' Experience in Artificial Fish-breeding, show- 

 ing in what waters Trout will and wiU not thrive, with some Remarks on 

 Fish and British Fisheries Hg 



Mr. Henry Woodward on a new Isopod from Flinder's Island 118 



Prof. E. Perceval Wright on Rhinodon tijpicus, the largest known Shark. 118 



Anatomy and Physiology. 

 Dr. Henry Blanc, Human Vaccine Lymph and Heifer Lj^ph compared . . 118 

 Mr. W. Kencely Bridgman on Voltaic Electricity in relation to Physiology 119 



