CONTENTS. XVll 



MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 10. 



Page 



1. Report of the Committee for aiding- in the maintenance of the establish- 



ment of a Marine Biological Station at Granton, Scotland 7 10 



2. Report of the Committee on the Development of the Oviduct in certain 

 fresh-water Teleostei 710 



3. On certam Adaptations for the Nutrition of Embryos. By F. W. 

 Oliver 710 



4. On the Development of the Bulb in Laminaria bullosa. By C. A. 

 Barber 710 



5. On Packytheca, a Silurian Alga of doubtful Affinities. By C. A. Barber 711 



6. On the Plant-remains discovered by Mr. W. M. Flinders Petrie in the 



Cemetery of Hawara, Lower Egypt, By Percy E. Newberry 712 



7. Abnormal Ferns, Hybrids, and their Parents. By E. J. Lowe, F.R.S., 

 and Colonel Jones ' 713 



8. Preliminary Note on the Functions and Homologies of the Contractile 



Vacuole in Plants and Animals. By Professor Marctts M. Hartog, 

 D.Sc., M.A 714 



9. On the Contrivances for the Seed Protection and Distribution in 



Blumenbachia Hiei-onymi, Urban. By W. Gardiner 716 



Zoological Department. 



1. On Locusts in Cyprus. By S. Brown 710 



2. On the Fauna of the Firth of Clyde. By W. E. Hotle, M.A 717 



3. On a Deep-sea Tow Net. By W. E. Hoyle, M.A 717 



4. On some Points in the Natural History of the Coral Fungia. By J. J. 

 Lister, M.A., F.Z.S 717 



5. On the Echinodermata of the Sea of Bengal. By Professor F. Jeffrey 

 Bell, M.A., Sec. R.M.S 718 



TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 11. 



1. Discussion on Coral Reefs , 718 



2. Second Report of the Committee on the Physiology of the Lymphatic 



System 723 



3. Contributions to the Anatomy of the Tubificidae. By F. E. Beddard, 

 M.A., F.Z.S 72.'] 



4. On the Flora of Madagascar. By the Rev. R. Baron 724 



5. On the Efi'ects of the Weather of 1888 on the Animal and Vegetable 

 Kingdoms. By E. J, Lowe, F.R.S 720 



6. The Odoriferous Apparatus of the Blaps mortisaga (Coleoptera). By 



Professor GusTAVE Gilson 727 



7. Report of the Committee on Provincial Museums 728 



8. The effect of various substances (chiefly members of the aromatic series 



of organic compounds) upon the rate of secretion and constitution of the 



BUe. By W. J. Collins, M.D., M.S., B.Sc. (Lond.), F.R.C.S 728 



1888. a 



