276 PROCEEDINGS OF THE CANADIAN INSTITUTE. 



7. Bulletin of the. Illinois State Laboratory of Natural History, Normal, 



lUinois, Vol. II., 1884. 



8. Description of a New Species of Orinoids with Articulating Spines, by 



George Jennings Hinde, Ph. D., F.G.S. 



9. Proceedings of the London Mathematical Society, Nos. 231-234. 



10. Verhandlungen der Berliner Gesellschaft fiir Anthropologic, Ethnologic und 



Urgeschichte, Sitzungen vom 18 Oct., 1884, und 15 Nov., 1884. 



11. The National Anthem for India, with Translations into several Oriental 



Languages. 

 An Account of the Proceedings of a Meeting held in the National Club, 



Whitehall, with the Speeches in favor of the Anthem Movement. 

 Heport of a Meeting in Grosvenor House, &c., on the same. 



Presented by Henry Rowsell, Esq. 



Mr. A. McCharles was elected a member. 



Mr. A. B. Macallum, B.A., Fellow of University College, 

 read the following paper on 



THE NERVE ENDINGS IN THE CUTANEOUS 

 EPITHELIUM OF THE TADPOLE. 



The results attained in the study of this subject have given the 

 following : * 



1. There are two plexuses of non-medullated fibres, one wide- 

 meshed, placed some distance below the corium, the other very 

 narrow-meshed, situated immediately beneath the epithelium. The 

 first, which may be termed the primary or fundamental plexus, 

 sends up fibres at various distances which pierce the corium and 

 unite with the secondary or subepithelial plexus. The meshes of 

 the latter are often as narrow as the basal surface of an epithelial 

 cell. 



2. From the primary plexus, fibres here and there pass up through 

 the corium to terminate in swollen bead-like bodies between the 

 epithelial cells. 



3. From the secondary plexus arise minute fibres, which, ascend- 

 ing between the epithelial cells, terminate either within the latter 

 near their nuclei,' or between them, or after branching in both 

 fashions. 



. 4. The fibres which enter cells of the basal and intermediate 

 layers of epithelium, are provided with sheathing structures known 

 as the Figures of Eberth, vhich decrease in size as the cells con- 



* The points treated of in the ifirst part of this abstract, are dealt with fully in a paper pub- 

 lished in the Quarterly Journal of Microscdpical Science for November, 1885. 



