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Ilcport of tlie Committee, consisting: of Professor Ray Lankester, Mr. P. L. 

 ScLATEK, Professor M. Foster, Mr. A. Sedgwick, Professor A. M. Mae- 

 shall, Professor A. C.Haddon, Professor MosELEY,and Mr. Percy Sladen 

 (Secretary), appointed for the purpose of makino; arrangements for assisting- 

 tbc Marine Biological Association Laboratory at Plymouth 59 



Fifth Report of the Committee, consistinff of Mr. R. Etheridge, Dr. H. 

 Woodward, and Professor T. Rupert Joy^s (Secretary), on the Fossil 

 Phyllopoda of the Palceozoic Rocks, 1887 '. 60 



Report of the Committee, consistinj^ of Mr. Johx Cordeaux (Secretary), 

 Professor A. Newton, Mr. J. A. Harvie-Beown, Mr. William Eagle 

 Clarke, Mr. R. M. Barrington, and Mr. A. G. More, reappointed at Bir- 

 mingham ior the purpose of obtaining (with the consent of tlie Master and 

 Brethren of the Trinity flouse and the Commissioners of Nortliern and 

 Irish Lights) observations on the Migration of Birds at Lighthouses and 

 Lightvessels, and of reporting on the same ''0 



Report of the Committee, consisting of Messr.s. 11. Seebohm, R. Teimex, W._ 

 Carritthers, and P. L. Sclater (Secretary), appointed for the purpose of 

 investigating the Flora and Fauna of the Cameroons Mountain 73 



Report of the Committee, consisting of Professor Ray Lankester, Mr. P. L. 

 Sclater, Professor M. Foster, Ml-. A. Sedgwick, Prolessor A. M. Mar- 

 shall, Professor A. C. IIaddon, Professor Moseley, and Mr. Percy 

 Sladen (Secretary), appointed for the purpose of arranging for the occu- 

 pation of a Table at the Zoological Station at Naples 77 



. Report of the Committee, consisting of Professor McKendeick, Professor 

 Struthers, Professor Young, Professor McIntosh, Professor A. Nichol- 

 son, Professor Cossar Ewart, and Mr. John Murray (Secretary), appointed 

 for the pui-pose of aiding in the maintenance of the establishment ot a 

 Marine Biological Station at Granton, Scotland 91 



Report of the Committee, consisting of Mr. Thiselton Dyer (Secretary), 5Ir. 

 Carruthers, Mr. Ball, Professor Oliver, and Mr. Foebes, appointed for 

 the purpose of continuing the preparation of a Report on our present Ivuow- 

 ledge of the Flora of China -51 



Report of the Committee, consisting of Canon A. M. Norman, Mr. II. B. 

 Brady, Mr. W. Carruthers, Professor Herdman, Professor W. 0. 

 M'Intosh, Mr. J. Murray, Professor A. Newion, Mr. P. L. Sclater, and 

 Professor A. C. Haddon (Secretary), appointed for the purpose of con- 

 sidering the question of accurately defining the term ' British ' as applied to 

 the Marine Fauna and Flora of our Islands ^5 



Report of the Committee, consisting of Professor M. Foster, Professor Baylky 

 Balfour, Mr. Thiselton-Dyer, Dr. Trimen, Professor Bowee (Secretary), 

 Professor Marshall Ward, Mr. Carruthers, and Professor IIartog, 

 appointed for the purpose of taking steps for the establishment ot a 

 Botanical Station at Peradeniya, Ceylon ^^ 



Report of the Committee, consisting of Professor Valentine Ball, Mr. II. G. 

 FoEDHAM, Professor Haddon, Professor Hillhouse, Mr. John Hopktnson, 

 Dr. Macparlanb, Professor Milnes Marshall, Mr. F. T. Mott (Secretary), 

 Dr. Teaquair, and Dr. H. Woodward, appointed for the purpose of pre- 

 paring a Report upon the Provincial Museums of the United Kingdom 97 



First Report of the Committee, consisting of Professor Hillhouse, Mr. E. W. 

 Badger, and Mr. A. W. Wills, for the purpose of collecting information as 

 to the Disa]5pearance of Native Plants from their Local Habitats. By Pro- 

 fessor Hillhouse, Secretary 1"^ 



Report of the Committee, consisting of Professor McKendeick, Professor 

 Cleland, and Dr. McGregor-Robeeison (Secretary), appointed for the 

 purpose of investigating the Mechanism of the Secretion of Urine 131 



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