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JOURNAL 



OF THE 



KOYAL MICKOSCOPICAL SOCIETY. 



Ser. 2.— Vol. II. Part 6. 



(DECEMBER, 1882.) 



CONTENTS. 



Tbansaction8 of the Society — page 



XV. — On some Obganisms found in the Excbements of the 

 Domestic Goat and the Goose. By K. L. Maddox, 



M.D., Hon. F.K.M.S. (Plate VII.) .. .. 749 



XVI. — A Further Impbovement in the Gboves-Williams Etheb 

 Fbeezing Miobotome. By J. W. Groves, F.B.M.S. 



(Fig. 146) .. .. .. .. .. 755 



SUMMABY OF CuBBENT EeSEAEOHES EELATING TO ZOOLOGY AND 



Botany (pbinotpally Invebtebbata and Cbyptogamia), Micbo- 

 scopy, &c, including Obiginal Communications fbom Fellows 



AND OTHEBS .- .. 757 



Zoology. 



Spermatogenesis in Mammalia .. 757 



Early Changes of the Chick 758 



Dimensions of Histological Elements + .. 762 



Influence of the External Medium on the Saline Constituents of the Blood 



of Aquatic Animals .. .. 763 



Development of gome Metazoa .. .. 763 



Symbiosis oj 'Dissimilar Organisms .. r . .. .. .. .. .. .. .. 764 



Pelagic Fauna of Fresh-water Lakes 765 



Curious Secretion in Gasteropods .. 766 



Olfactory Organ of Parmacella .. .. 767 



Innervation of the Mantle of Lamettibranchs 767 



Differentiation of Protoplasm in Nerve-fibres of Unionidse 767 



Disdaplia 768 



Natural History of Doliolum ». .. 768 



Development of Ganglion and Ciliated Sac in Pyrosoma .. 769 



Development of Genital Products of Cheilostomatous Bryozoa 769 



Brain of Crustacea and Insects .. .. 770 



Want of Cutaneous Absorption in Aquatic Coleoptera 771 



Habits of Ants, Bees, and Wasps 771 



Larvse and Pupss of Diptera .. 772 



Organs of Flight in Hemiptera , 772 



Diversity of Type in Ancient Myriapods .. .. 773 



Observations on Scorpions .. 774 



Insecticolous Acari 774 



Sense-hairs of the Hydrachnida .. 775 



Ontogeny of Fresh-water Copepoda .. 776 



Aberrant Oniscoids 777 



Blind Subterranean Crustacea in New Zealand 778 



Synthetic Annelid .. .. 778 



Elytra of Aphroditacean Annelids 779 



Phosphorescent Organs of Tomopteris 780 



Priapulus bicaudatus 780 



