Xll CONTENTS. 



Botany and Zoology. 



Page 

 Prof. Alfred Newton's Address to the Department of Botany and Zoology . 119 

 Dr. 1. Batley Balfour on the Pandaneje of the Mascarene and Seychelles 



Islands 142 



Mr. G. S. Boulger on the Evolution of Sex in the Vegetable Kingdom 142 



Professor Alexander Dickson on Two Monstrosities of Matricaria inodora . 143 

 . on Laticiferous Canals in Fruit of Limno- 



charis Plumieri 144 



Mr. A. G. More on the Occurrence in Ireland of Ntiphar intermedium, Ledeb. 144 



, exhibition of Zostera nana from Carnarvonshire 144 



Professor W. R. M'Nab, exhibition of Choreocliola.x polysiphonice, Reinscli . . 144 

 on the Structure of the Leaf in different Species of 



Abies 144 



Mr. C. W. Peach on Circinnate Vernation of Sphenopteris affinis from the 



Earliest stage to Completion, and on the discovery of Staphylopteris, a Genus 



new to British Rocks 144 



Professor W. C. Williamson on some of the Physiological and Morphological 



Features seen in the Plants of the Coal-measures 145 



Professor A. Leith Adams on Gigantic Land-Tortoises and a Freshwater 



Species from the Maltese Caverns, with observations on their Fossil Fauna . 145 



Dr. W. B. Carpenter on the Arenaceous Foraminifera collected in the 

 ' Valorous ' Expedition 14G 



: — on Further Researches on the Nervous Sj'stem of 



Antedon rosaceus (Cotnatula rosacea, Lamk.) 146 



Mr. P. Herbert Carpenter on the Anatomy of the Arms of the Crinoids . . 146 

 Dr. D. J. Cunningham on Delphinus aJhirostris 146 



Professor Ferdinand Cohn on the Formation and Growth of Artificial Silica 

 Cells 146 



Dr. N. Carmichael on Spontaneous Evolution and the Germ Theory 146 



Dr. J. GwYN Jeffreys on the Biological Results of a Cruise in II.M.S. 

 ' Valorous ' to Davis Strait in 1875 147 



Rev. F. 0. Morris on a Double Dilemma in Darwinism 147 



Mr. John Murray on Oceanic Deposits and their Origin, based on Observa- 

 tions made on board H.M.S. ' Challenger ' 147 



Professor J. Young on the new Cases in the Hunterian Museum 147 



Anatomy and Physiology. 



Dr. John Grey M'Ivendrick on the Future of Physiological Research.— 

 Address to the Department of Anatomy and Physiology 126 



Mr. F. M. Balfour on the Development of the Proto-Vertebrte in Elasmo- 

 branchs I47 



Mr. H. G. Brooke and Mr. E. 0. Hopwood on the Changes in the Circu- 

 lation which are induced when the Blood is expelled from the Limbs by 

 Esmarch's Method I47 



Dr. W. B. Carpenter on the Morphology and Histology of the Nervous 



System of Antedon rosaceus {Comatida rosacea, Lamk.) 148 



Dr. Cassells on a Hypothesis of the perception of Articulate Speech 148 



Professor Cleland on the Morphological Relations of the Lower End of the 

 Humerus j^g 



on a Hydrocephalic Skull, and on the Duplicity of the Tem- 

 poral Ridge 249 



