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Prof. W. C. Williamson, F. R. S.: Some recent Researches among 

 the Goal Plants. especially Calamites, Lepidodendra, and Sigillariae. 



C. W. Peach, A. L. S.: On Circinnate Vernation of « Sphenopteris 

 affinis » from the Earliest Stage to Completion, and on the Discorvery of 

 Staphylopteris, a genus new to British Rocks. 



Prof. A. Leith Adams, F. R, S.: On Gigantic Tortoises from the 

 Maltese Caves, with Observations on the Elephantine and other Fossil Re- 

 mains found with them. 



DIVISIONE DI ANATOMIA E DI FISIOLOGIA. 



Presidente Doti. J. G. M' Kendrick, J". i2. 5. £". 



Prof. T u r n e r : The Structure of the Placenta in relation to the Theory 

 of Evolution. 



F. M . Balfour, B , A .: On the Development of the Protovertebrse and 

 Muscle-plates in the Elasmobranch Fishes. 



Dott. Urban Pritchard: On the Termination of the Nerves in the 

 Vestibule and Semicircular Canals of Mammals. 



Dott. William Stirling: On the Nervous Apparatus of the Lungs. 



John Priestley: A Summary of a Research on the Physiological 

 Action of Vanadium. 



Prof. Arthur Gamgee, M. D., F. R. S, and Leopold Larmuth: 

 On the Action of Vanadium upon the Intrinsic Nervous Mechanism of the 

 Frog' s Heart. 



Leopold Larmuth: On the Poisonous Activity of Ortho, Meta-and 

 Pyro-Vanadic Acids. 



Prof Gamgee, F. R. S., Leopold Larmuth, and John Priest- 

 ley : On the Physiological Action of Pyro-Phosphoric Acid, and specially 

 on its action as a Cardiac Poi.son. 



John Priestley: Observations on the Physiological Action of Chromium 



H. G. Brooke, B. A., and E. 0. Hopwood, B. A.: On the Ghan- 

 ges in the Circulation which are observed when Blood is expelled from the 

 Limbs by Esmarch' s Method. 



G. J. Romanes: On the Nervous System of Medusae. 



Prof. Haeckel: On some of the Lovs^est Forms of the Sponges. 

 Dott. D. J. Cunningham: On the Spinai Nervous System of Getacea. 

 Dott. Urban Pritchard: A Microscope adapted for showing the Gir- 

 culation in the Human Subject. 



Report of the Gommittee on Intestinal Secretion and Movement. 



Prof. B urdon- Sanderson, F. R. S.: New Researches on the Elee- 



