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graphs aud capable of much greater amplification and elaboration, the view 

 generally held that the entire organism of a Protozoon is truly homologous 

 with a single body-cell of a Metazoon seems to me quite unassailable, and to 

 have gained in force greatly from recent investigations both upon Protozoa 

 and Metazoa. On the other hand, any Protist, as an organism physiologically 

 complete in itself, is clearly analogous to the entire individual in the Metazoa 

 — a comparison, however, which leaves the question of genetic homology quite 

 untouched. 



As regards the application of the term unicellular or non-cellular to the 

 Protozoa, it is evident that if the evolution of living beings had never pro- 

 ceeded beyond the stage of the Protista, and if no multicellular organisms had 

 ever been evolved, the term cell could then never have been invented by an 

 intelligent being studying other living beings, supposing for an instant the 

 possibility of such intelligence existing apart from a mammalian brain. So 

 long as the Protozoa are studied entirely by themselves, without reference to 

 any other forms of life, they may be termed non-cellular in the sense that 

 they are not composed of cells. It is only when they are compared with 

 multicellular organisms that the term unicellular becomes applicable on the 

 ground of the homology already discussed between the Prntozoon and the body- 

 cell of the Metazoon. 



The following Papers and Reports were then read : — 



1. The Future of Scientific Literature in relation to the War. 

 By Professor A. Meek. 



2. Report on the Occufation of a Table at the Zoological Station at 

 Naples. — See Eeports, p. 148. 



3. Report on the Biological Problems incidental to the BehnnUet 

 Whalivg Station. — See Reports, p. 124. 



4. Report on. tlic Noinenclator Animaliuni Generiim et Sub-generum. 



See Eeports, p. 147. 



o. Report -on tJie Biology of the AbrolJtos hlauds. — See Eeports, 



p. 148. 



6. Report on the Collection of Marsupials. — See Eeports, p. 147. 



7. Report on the Occupation of a Table nl the Marine Laboralory, 

 Plymouth. — See Eeports, p. 149. 



8. Materials for a Graphic History of Comparative Anatomy. 

 By Professor P. D". Cole and Nellie B. Eales, B.Sc. 



A few years ago one_ of us attempted to apply graphic methods to an his- 

 torical study of anatomical museums.' The results were encouraging but not 

 conclusive, since the number of such museums which could be traced (537) was 

 too small to admit of adequate treatment by statistical methods. It then 

 occurred to us to make a similar attempt on the literature of comparative 

 anatomy generally, in the hope that, with a much greater bulk of records to 

 juggle with, we might succeed in conjuring form and precision out of an 



' Cp. Cole, The Mackay Miscellany, p. 302, Liverpool, 1914. 



