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Mr. Geohge Harris ou the Coucun-ent Contemporaneous Progress of lleno- 

 vation and Waste in Animated Frames, and the extent to which such Opera- 

 tions are controUable by Artificial Means 1'52 



M. G. PoucHET on the Mechanism of the Change of Colour in Fishes and 



Crustacea 1^2 



Dr. Eadcliffe on the Mechanism of Muscular Contraction 152 



Dr. James Ross on the Graft Theory of Disease 153 



Dr. BuRDON Sanderson on the Cause of the Respiratory Variations of Arte- 

 rial Pressure 154 



Mr. E. A. Sch.\fer's Experiments relating to the Coagulation of the Blood. . 155 



Professor Carl Semper on the Normal and Abnormal Growth of Limnceus . 156 



Professor Struthers ou the Occurrence of the Supracondyloid Process in 

 Man 150 



on the Sternum and Pelvic Bone in the Right Whale 



and in Great Fin-Whales 156 



on the Occurrence of Finger-muscles in the Bottle- 

 nose Whale {Hypei'oodon lidens) 150 



Anthropology. 



Colonel A. Lane Fox's Address to the Department of Anthropology 157 



The Rev. J. C. Atkinson on the Predominating Danish Aspect of the Local 

 Nomenclature of Cleveland, Yorkshire 175 



Mr. C. Spence Bate on the Exploration of some Tumuli on Dartmoor 175 



Mr. J. F. Campbell on a Visit to the Hypogeum 175 



Mr. Arcuibald Campbell on the Looshais 170 



Mr. A. A. Carmichael on a Hypogeum at Valaquie, North Uist 170 



Dr. Charnock on Sussex River-Names 170 



on certain Geographical Names in the County of Sussex .... 177 



. on Roumanian Gipsies 177 



on the Gipsy Dialect called " Sim " 177 



Mr. Hyde Clarke on the Ethnological and Philological Relations of the 

 Caucasus 17/ 



. on the Mangnema or Manyema of Dr. Livingstone 178 



Mr. Charles T. Croger on Tumuli at Ascheraden in Livonia 178 



Mr. W. Boyd Dawkins and R. H. Tiddeman's Report on the Victoria Cave, 

 explored by the Settle-Cave-Exploration Committee 178 



Sir Walter Elliot on the Primitive Weapons of Ancient India 180 



Mr. John Ev.vns on the Alphabet and its Origin 181 



Sir Duncan Gibb on a Pata-patoo from New Zealand 185 



on Stone Implements and Fragments of Potterj"- from Canada 180 



Major II. H. Godwin-Austen on the Garo Hill Tribes of Bengal 186 



The Rev. W. Greenwell on the BaiTows of the Yorkshire AVolds 187 



Mr. George Harris on Theories regarding Intellect and Instinct, with an 

 attempt to deduce a satisfactory conclusion therefrom 188 



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