CONTENTS. XVli 



WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 18 



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1. Second Report on the Higher Eocene Beds of the Isle of Wight 597 



2. A word or two about the so-called Concretionary Structures in the Mag- 

 nesian Limestone of Durham. By Professor A. H. Green, M.A., F.R.S. 597 



8. The Work of the Geological Survey in Northumberland and Durham. 

 By W. ToPLET, F.R.S.,F.G.S 597 



4. On Concurrent Faulting and Deposit in Carboniferous Times in Craven, 

 Yorkshire, with a Note on Carboniferous Reefs. By R. H. Tideman, 

 M.A., F.G.S 600 



Section D.— BIOLOGY. 

 THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 12. 



Address by Professor J. S. Buedon Sanderson, M.A., M.D., LL.D., F.R.SS. L. 



and E.. President of the Section 604 



1. Report of the Committee on the Natural History of the Friendly Islands, 



or other groups in the Pacific, visited by H.M.S. 'Egeria'-. 615 



2. Second Report of the Committee for reporting on the present state of our 

 knowledge of the Zoology and Botany of the West India Islands, and 

 taking steps to investigate ascertained deficiencies in the Fauna and Flora 615 



3. Second Report of the Committee on the development of the Oviduct and 

 connected structures in certain fresh-water Teleostei 615 



4. Second Report of the Committee for collecting information as to the Dis- 

 appearance of Native Plants from their Local Habitats 615 



6. Report of the Committee for making a digest of the observations on the 

 Migration of Birds 616 



6. Report of the Committee to arrange for the occupation of a Table at 



the Zoological Station at Naples 615 



7. Third Report of the Committee for continuing the preparation of a Re- 

 port on our present knowledge of the Flora of China 615 



Zoological Department. 



1. Notes on the Fauna of the Louisiade and d'Entrecasteaux Islands. By 

 Basil H. Thomson 615 



2. On the Peculiarities of the Avifauna of the Canarv Islands. By the Rev. 



Canon H. B. Tristram, F.R.S '. 616 



3. On Syrrhaptes paradoxus as a Native of Britain. By Professor A. Newton, 

 M.A., F.R.S 616 



4. On the Morphologv of the long flexors of the digits of the Mammalian 

 Hand. By Professor B. C. A. Windle 616 



6. On certain Congenital Abnormalities in Fishes. By Professor B. C A. 

 Windle 616 



6. On the Caeca of a Tinamou. By Frank E. Beddard, M.A 616 



7. Contributions to our Knowledge of the Freshwater Annelids. Bv Frank 



E. Beddard, M.A ' 616 



8. Note on the Tarpon. By Professor McIntosh, M.D., F.R.S 617 



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