CONTENTS. Vii 



Page 

 Professor S. J. Higkson, Mr. F. Du Cane Godman, Dr. P. L. Sclater, 

 Mr. E. A. Smith, and Mr. D. Sharp (Secretary) 3o2 



Plankton and Physical Conditions of the English Channel, 1809-1900.— 

 Interim Report of the Committee, consisting of Professor E. Rat Lan- 

 KESTER (Chairman), Mr. W. Garstang (Secretary), Professor W. A. Herd- 

 man, and Mr. H. N. Dickson. (Drawn up by the Secretary.) 3.5o 



Occupation of a Table at the Zoological Station at Xaples. — Report of the 

 Comniittee, consisting of Professor W. A. Heedman (Chairman), Pro- 

 fessor E. Ray Lankester, Professor W. F. R. Weldon, Professor S. J. 

 HiCKsoN, Mr. A. Sedgwick, Professor W. C. McIntosh, and Professor G. B. 

 Howes (Secretary) 354: 



Appendix I. — a. Report on the Occupation of the Table. By Dr. R. 

 Hamlyn-Haeris, F.R.M.S., F.Z.S., ' On the 



Statocysts of Cephalopoda ' 355 



b. Report on the Occupation of the Table. By Dr. 

 A. H. Reginald Bullee, B.Sc, 'The Fertilisa- 

 tion Process in Echinoidea ' 356 



„ n. — A List of Naturalists who have worked at the Zoo- 

 logical Station from the end of June 1900 till the end 



of June 1901 358 



„ ni. — A List of Papers which were published in the Year 

 1900 by the Naturalists who have occupied Tables in 



the Zoological Station 360 



„ IV. — A List of the Publications of the Zoological Station 



during the Year ending June 30, 1901 361 



Index Animalium. — Report of the Committee, consisting of Dr. Henry Wood- 

 AVARD (Chairman), Mr. AV. E. Hoylb, Mr. R. McLachlan, Dr. P. L. 

 Sclater, Rev, T. R. R. Steering, and Dr. F. A. Bather (Secretary) 362 



Coral Reefs of the Indian Regions. — Second Report of the Committee, con- 

 sisting of Mr. A. Sedgwick (Chairman), Mr. J. Graham Keek (Secretary), 

 Professor J. W. Jttdd, Mr. J. J. Listee, and Dr. S. F. Haemee, ap- 

 pointed to investigate the Structure, Formation, and Growth of the Coral 

 Reefs of the Indian Region 363 



Bird Migration in Great Britain and Ireland. — Fourth Interim Report of 

 the Committee, consisting of Professor Newton (Chairman), Rev. E. P. 

 Knublet (Secretary), Mr. John A. Haevie-Beown, Mr. R. M. Baering- 

 TON, and Mr. A. H. Evans, appointed to work out the details of the Obser- 

 vations of Migration of Birds at Lighthouses and Lightships, 1880-87 364 



Migrations of the Skylark (Alauda arvensiif). By Wm. Eagle Clarke 365 



Migrations of the Swallow (Zf»7m<Zo n«s<jc«). By Wm. Eagle Clarke 372 



Investigations made at the Marine Biological Laboratory, Plymouth. — Report 

 of the Committee, consisting of Mr. G. C. Bouene (Chairman), Mr. W. 

 Garstang (Secretary), Professor E. Ray Lankestee, Professor Sydney II. 

 Vines, Mr. A . Sedgwick, and Professor "VV. F. R. Weldon. (Drawn up 

 by the Secretary.) 370 



Some Notes on the Behaviour of Young Gulls artificially hatched. By Pro- 

 fessor J. Arthur Thomson, M.A 378 



Changes of the Land Level of the Phlegrsean Fields. — Report of a Committee 

 consisting of Dr. H. R. Mill (Chairman), Mr. H. N. Dickson (Secretary), 

 Dr. Scott Keltie, and Mr. R. T. Gunther, (Drawn up by Mr. R. T. 

 GiJNTHER,) . 382 



