CONTENTS. XI 



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Dr. Dickie on the Structure of the Shell in some Species of Pecten 147 



Mr. John Gould on the Varieties and Species of New Pheasants recently 

 introduced into England 148 



1 on some New Species of Birds 149 



Mr. John Hogg, Account of a Species of Phalangista recently killed in the 

 County of Durham 149 



Mr. T. F. Jamieson, List of the Birds of the North of Scotland, with their 

 Distribution 150 



Dr. James M'Bain, Notice of a Skull of a Manatee from Old Calabar 150 



, Notice of the Duration of Life in the Actinia Mesembryanthemum 



when kept in confinement 152 



, Notice of the Skull of a Wombat from the Bone-Caves of Aus- 

 tralia 152 



, Notice of the Skull of a Seal from the Gulf of California 153 



Dr. T<r Nox on the Classification of the Salmonida 153 



Mr. Andrew Murray on a New Species of Galago (Galago murinus) from 

 Old Calabar 153 



Mr. W. E. C. Nourse on the Habits and Instincts of the Chameleon 153 



Mr. C. W. Peach on the Zoophytes of Caithness 155 



, Notes on different subjects in Natural History, illustrated 



by Specimens 155 



Mr. John Price on the Genus Cydippe 155 



Mr. H. T. Stainton on the Distribution of British Butterflies 156 



Rev. W. S. Symonds, Account of the Fish-rain at Aberdare in Glamorganshire 158 



on Drift Pebbles found in the Stomach of a Cow 158 



Mr. James Taylor, Note on Falco Islandicus and F. Grcenlandicus 158 



Professor George Wilson on the Employment of the Electrical Eel, Gymno- 

 tus electricus, as a Medical Shock-Machine by the Natives of Surinam 158 



Physiology. 



Dr. John Adamson on a Case of Lactation in an Unimpregnated Bitch 159 



Mr. Bernard E. Brodhurst on the Repair of Tendons after their Subcutane- 

 ous Division 160 



Dr. Michael Foster on the Beat of the Snail's Heart 160 



Dr. Richard Fowler's Second Physiological Attempt to unravel some of the 

 Perplexities of the Berkeleyan Hypothesis 160 



Mr. A. Gages on the Comparative Action of Hydrocyanic Acid on Albumen 

 and Caseine 162 



Mr. Robert Garner on Reproduction in Gasteropoda, and on some curious 

 Effects of Endosmosis 162 



Dr. A.B.Garrod on Specific Chemical and Microscopical Phenomena of Gouty 

 Inflammation 165 



Mr. G. H. Lewes on the necessity of a Reform in Nerve-Physiology 166 



, Demonstration of the Muscular Sense 167 



on the supposed Distinction between Sensory and Motory 



Nerves 168 



Mr. J. D. Macdonald on the Homologies of the Coats of Tunicata, with re- 

 marks on the Physiology of the Pallial Sinus System of Brack iopoda,. 170 



