CONTENTS. ^11^ 



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Mr. E. Ray Lankesteu on a Peach-coloured Bacterium 110 



on the Genealogy of the MoUusca HG 



Mr. T. Lister on Birds observed in the West Riding of Yorkshire in former 



and recent years 



Mr. R. MacLachlan on a new Insect belonging to the Family Ephemend3> , _ 



with Notes on the Natural History of that Family - H'' 



Anatomy and Physiology. 



Professor Ruthehfoiid's Address to the Department of Anatomy and Phy- 

 siology 1^"^ 



Mr. Alfred W. Bennett on the Movements of the Glands of Drosera .... 123 



Dr. BiNZ on the Action of Alcohol on Warm-blooded Animals 124 



Dr. Lauder Brunton on the Nature of Cholera 124 



Mr. A. S. Davis on some Abnormal Effects of Binocular Vision 126 



Dr. Dewar and Dr. MacKendrick on the Action of Light on the Retina and 



other Tissues 126 



Professor P. Martin Duncan on the Motion of Protoplasm in the Fiisaceous 



Algfe 126 



Dr. David Ferrier on the Localization of Function in the Brain 126 



Dr. J. MiLNER FoTHERGiLL ou the Heart and Brain 127 



Dr. Thomas R. Eraser on the Physiological Action of Crystalline Aconitia 

 and pseudo- Aconitia , 128 



Sir G. Duncan Gibb on the Vocal Organs in Living Centenarians 128 



Dr. J. Goodman on White Corpuscles, their Nature and Origin in the Animal 



Organism '... 129 



Dr. George Harley on the Mode of Formation of Renal Calculi 130 



Mr. E. Ray Lankesteb on the Structure of the Egg, and the early Develop- 

 ment of the Cephalopod Lolixjo 131 



Dr. John Ross on Microzymes as partial Bionta 131 



Dr. BuRDON Sanderson on Huizinga's Experiments on Abiogenesis 131 



on the Electrical Phenomena which accompany the 



Contractions of tlie Leaf of Dionma muscipula 13.3 



Professor 0. A. Struthers on the Diverticulum of the Small Intestine in 

 Man, considered as a Rudimentary Structure 134 



Mr. C. S. Tomes on the Development of the Armadillo's Teeth 134 



Dr. ^loRRisoN Watson on the Anatomy and Phvsiology of the Indian Ele- 

 phant ' 134 



Anthropology. 



Dr. John Beddoe's Address to the Department of Anthropology 134 



Note on the Iberians „ . . 140 



Mr. A. W. Buckland on the Serpent in connexion with Primitive Metallurgy 140 



Mr. 0. H. E. Carmichael on Professor Gennarelli's Paper " On the Exist- 

 ence of a Race of Red Men in Northern Africa and Southern Europe in 

 Prehistoric Times " , , , 141 



