contents. xi 



Anatomy and Physiology. 



Page 



Professor A. Macalister's Address 87 



Mr. G. T. Bettany on the Structure and Development of the Vertebrate 

 Skull 106 



on the use of the terms Assimilation and Metastasis .... 107 



Dr. D. J. Cunningham on the Manimillary and Accessory Processes as Per- 

 sistent Epiphyses in the Human Spine 107 



on the Myology of the Shoulder and Upper Arm of the 



Thylacine, Cuscus, and Phascogak 107 



on the Brachial Plexus of the Cascus 110 



Kev. W. H. Dallinger on the Life-history of the Simplest Organisms .... Ill 



Rev. Professor Hattghton on Transcendental Anatomy, or a Geometrical 

 Investigation of the best possible number of Limbs for Terrestrial and 

 Aquatic Animals Ill 



Dr. B. Howard on an Improvement in the Marshall-Hall and Sylvester 

 Methods of Artificial Respiration Ill 



Professor MTJendrick and Dr. W. Ramsay on the Physiological Action of 

 the Substitution Compound of Chinoline and Pyridine Ill 



Dr. William H. Pearse on the Geography of Consumption in Devonshire. — 

 Deaths from Consumption during the ten years 1861-70 112 



Dr. Allen Thomson on Photographs of Representations"of Vascular Injection 

 by Professor Dantscher, of Innsbruck 114 



Mr. W. Thomson on a Method of excluding Germs from Rooms used for 

 Surgical Operations 114 



Anthropology. 



Mr. Francis Galton's Address 94 



Dr. Barham on Flint Flakes from Cornwall and the Scilly Isles 114 



Mr. C. Spence Bate on Prehistoric Remains on Dartmoor 114 



Rev. Professor Beal, Exhibition and Description of a Soapstone Image from 

 Pekin 115 



Dr. J. Beddoe on the Bulgarians 115 



Miss A. W. Buckxand on the Ethnological Hints afforded by the Stimulants 

 of the Ancient and Modern Savages 115 



Dr. J. Evans on some Palaeolithic Implements found in the Axe Valley .... 116 



Colonel Lane Fox on some Saxon and British Tumuli near Guildford 116 



Mr. J. Park Harrison on some Rune-like Characters on Chalk 117 



Mr. Bertram F. Hartshorne on the Ancient People and Irrigation-works 

 of Ceylon 117 



Mr. F. M. Htjnter on Socotra 118 



Mr. Ed. Laws on the proposed Exploration of certain Caves in the neigh- 

 bourhood of Tenby , 118 



Mr. A. L. Lewis on the Devil's Arrows (Yorkshire) 118 



Dr. J. S. Phene on the District of Mycenae and its early Occupants 1 19 



Mr. II. Rivett-Carnac on Indian Archaic Remains and their resemblance 

 to European Types 120 



