CONTENTS. 



Transactions of the Sooietx — pagb 



XIV.— New British Miceo-Fungi. By G. Massee, F.E.M.S. 



(Plate XIII.) 757 



XV. — On Erosion of the Surface of Glass, when exposed to 

 THE Joint Action of Carbonate of Lime and Colloids. 

 By WiUiam M. Ord, M.D., F.E.M.S., F.L.S 761 



XVI. — On a Septic Microbe from a High Altitude. The 

 NiESEN Bacillus. By G. F. Dowdeswell, M.A., F.E.M.S., 



F.L.S., &c 769 



XVII. — On the USE of the Avicularian Mandible in the deter- 

 mination of the Chilostomatous Brtozoa. By Arthur 

 Wm. Waters, F.E.M.S., F.L.S. (Plate XIV.) 774 



SUMMARY OF CURRENT RESEARCHES. 



ZOOLOGY. 



A. GENERAL, including Embryology and Histology 

 of the Vertebrata. 



DOHBN, A. — Primitive History of the Vertebrate Body 780 



MiNOT, C. S. — Formative Force of Organisms 780 



FoL, H. — Tail of HumMn Embryo 781 



Laulanie — Nature of the Placental Neoformation and the Unity of Composition of 



the Placenta 783 



Denikeb, J. — Foetus of Gibbon and its Placenta 783 



Brown, H. H. — Spermatogenesis in the Bat .. 783 



Geelach, L. — Hatching of Birds' Eggs after Lesion of the Shell 784 



Spbnoee, W. Baldwin — Early Devdopment of Bana temporaria 785 



Beook, G. — Development of Motella mustela 785 



Btdeb, J. A. — Development of the Salmon .. 786 



EwAET, CossAJB, & G. Beook — Spawning of the Cod 786 



B.ET!TEiiEi&— Development of Vascular Glands 787 



Melland, B. — Simplified View of Histology of Striped Muscle-fibre .. 787 



Howes, G. B. — Atlas of Practical Elementary Biology 787 



B. INVERTEBRATA. 



Conn, H. W. — Marine Larvx and their Relation to Adults.. 788 



Ransom, W. B. — Cardiac Bhythm of Invertebrates .. 789 



Vaeignt, H. DE — Physiology of the Unstriated Muscles of Invertebrata 791 



Feenzel, J. — Temperature Maxima for Marine Animals 791 



MoUusca. 



Feenzel, J. — Mid-gut Gland (Liver) of the Mollusca .. .. 792 



Halleb, B. — Benal Organ of Prosobranchiata 793 



BouviEE, E. L. — Nervous System of Buccinidae and Purpuridse 793 



Bohene, a. G. — Communication of the Vascular System with the Exterior in 



Pleurdbranchus 794 



Geiesbach, H. — Inception of Water among Mollusca .. .. .. .. 794 



Schuleb, p. — Relations of Cavernous Spaces in the Connective Tissue of Anodonia - 



to the Blood-vascular System 794 



Gbipfiths, A. B., & H. Fellows — Organs of Bojanus in Anodonta 795 



OsBOEN, H. L. — Mimicry among Marine MoUusca .. .. 795 



