REPORTS ON THE STATE OF SCIENCE. Vll 



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 Index Generum efc Specierum Animalium.— Report of the Committee, con- 

 sisting of Dr. Henry Woodward (Chairman), Dr. F. A. Bather (Secre- 

 tary), Dr. P. L. ScLATER, Rev. T. R. R. Stebbing, Dr. W. E. Hoyle, 

 Hon. Walter Rothschild, and Lord WaLsingham 297 



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

 Committee, consisting of Professor S. J. Hickson (Chairman). Rev.T. R.R. 

 Stebbing (Secretary), Professors Sir E. Ray Lankester, A. Sedgwick, 

 and W. C. McIntosh, and Mr. G. P. Bidder 297 



Report of Mr. Richard H. Whitehouse 297 



Report of Mr. C. C. Dobell 298 



Experiments in Inheritance. — Interim Report of the Committee, consisting 

 of Professor W. A. Herdman (Chairman), Mr. Douglas Laurie (Secre- 

 tary), Mr. R. C. Punnett, and Dr. H. W. BL^rrett Tims. (Drawn up 

 by the Secretary) 298 



Appendix. — Matings involving Yellow Mice 301 



The Zoology of the Sandwich Islands.— Eighteenth Report of the Com^ 

 mittee, consisting of Dr. F. Du Cane Godman (Chairman), Mr. David 

 Sharp (Secretary), Pi-ofessor S. J. Hickson, Dr. P. L. Sclater, and Mi-. 

 Edgar A. Smith 301 



The Fauna of the Lakes of Central Tasmania.— Report of the Committee, 

 consisting of Professor G. C. Bourne (Chairman), Mr. J. J. Lister (Secre- 

 tary), and Sir E. Ray Lankester, appointed to assist Mr. G. W. Smith 

 to proceed to Tasmania to study the Anatomy and Development of 

 Anaspides, and to investigate the Fauna of the Lakes of Central Tasmania 302 



Occupation of a Table at the Marine Laboratory, Plymouth. — Report of the 

 Committee, consisting of Professor A. Dendy (Chairman and Secretary), 

 Sir E. Ray L.ankester, Professor A. Sedgwick, and Professor Sydney 

 H. Vines 304 



Experiments on the Development of the Frog. — Report of the Committee, 

 consisting of Professor G. C. Bourne (Chairman), Dr. J. W. Jenkinson 

 (Secretary), and Professor S. J. Hickson. (Drawn up by the Secretary) 304 



Investigations in the Indian Ocean. — Third Report of the Committee, con- 

 sisting of Sir John Murray (Chairman), Mr. J. Stanley Gardiner 

 (Secretary), Captain E. W. Creak, Professors W. A. Herdman, S. J. 

 Hickson, and J. W. Judd, Mr. J. J. Lister, Dr. H. R. Mill, and Dr. D. 

 Sharp, appointed to carry on an Expedition to investigate the Indian 

 Ocean between India and South Africa in view of a possible land connec- 

 r tion, to examine the deep submerged banks, the Nazareth, and Saya de 

 l_ Malha, and also the distribution of marine animals 305 



The Exploration of Pi-ince Charles Foreland, Spitsbergen. — Report of the 

 Committee, consisting of Mr. G. G. Chisholm (Chairman), Dr. W. S. 

 Bruce (Secretary), and Major W. L. Forbes. (Dra^\^^ up by the Secre- 

 tary) 306 



The Investigation of the Oscillations of the Level of the Land in the Medi- 

 terranean Basin.— Report of the Committee, consisting of Mr. D. G- 

 Hogarth (Chairman), Mr. R. T. Gunther (Secretary), and Drs. T. G. 

 BoNNEY, F. H. Guillemard, J. S. Keltie, and H, R. Mill 308 



