XX CONTENTS. 



FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 2. 



Page 



1. Discussion in conjunction with Section C on the 'Arrangement of 



Museums' 736 



2. On the Vascular System and Colour of Arthropods and Molluscs. By 

 Professor Lankester 736 



3. Notes on the Genus P/jj/wosowiff. By W. F. R. Weldon 736 



4. On the Degeneration of the Olfactory Organ of certain Fishes. By Pro- 

 fessor WiEDEESHEIM 736 



5. On the Torpid State of Protopterus. By Professor Wiedeeshexm 738 



6. The Larynx and Stomach of Cetacean Emljiyos. By Professor D'Aect 

 Thompson 740 



7. On Haplodiscus Piger, By W. F. R. Weldon, M.A., Fellow of St, John's 

 College, Cambridge 740 



8. The Blood-corpuscles of the Cyclostomcita. By Professor D'Aect Thomp- 



son 740 



Sub-Section Botany. 



1. Report on the Disappearance of Native Plants 740 



2. Report of the China Flora Committee 740 



3. Cocoa-nut Pearls. By S. J. Hickson 740 



4. Note on the Nitrogenous Nutrition of the Bean. By S. H. Vines, D.Sc, 

 F.R.S 741 



5. On the Movement of the Leaf oi Mimosa Pudica. By S. H. Vines, D.Sc, 

 F.R.S 742 



6. On Flagella of Calamus. By Professor F. O. Bo wee 743 



7. Note on the Stomata and Ligules of Selaginella. By Professor McNab, 

 M.D., F.L.S 743 



8. On the Adventitious Buds on the Leaves of Lachenalia pendula. By Pro- 

 fessor McNab, M.D., F.L.S 744 



9. On the Root-spines of Acanthorhiza aculeata, H. Wendl. By Professor 

 McNab, M.D., F.L.S 744 



10. On the Gramineous Herbage of Water Meadows. By Professor W. 

 Feeam,B.Sc., F.L.S., F.G.S 744 



11. Juncus Alpinus, VilL, as new to Britain. Hy Chaeles Bailey 745 



12. Studies on some New Micro-organisms obtained from Air. By Mrs. 

 Peect Feankxand and Peecy F. Feankland, Ph.D., B.Sc. (Lond.), 

 F.C.S., F.LC, Assoc. Royal School of Mines 745 



SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 3. 



1. Recent Researches on Earthworms. By W. B. Benham, D.Sc 749 



2. The Problem of the Hop-plant Louse {Phorodon himuli, Schrank) in 

 Europe and America. By C. V. Riley, M.A., Ph.D 750 



3. Arteries of the Base of the Brain. By Bertram C. A. Windle, 

 M.A., M.D. (Dublin), Professor of Anatomy in the Queen's College, 

 Birmingham 753 



4. On Alteration of Iliac Divarication and other Changes of Pelvic Forms 



during Growth. By Professor Oleland, F.R.S 754 



