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glands. An elaborate paper, " On Annelida from the Coast of 

 Guernsey," was read by Mr. E. Eay Lankester. He had obtained 

 about seventy-seven specimens, amongst which were three entirely 

 new. The Bev. A. M. Norman described the structure and mode 

 of development of the Salpa spinosa, as he had observed it at 

 Guernsey. 



Mr. William Turner gave the results of a number of dissections, 

 more especially of the flexor muscles of the fingers and toes, and of 

 the supra-condyloid foramen occasionally occurring in the human arm, 

 from which he concluded that a great amount of variability was 

 manifested in the construction of the human body in different in- 

 dividuals, that in the development of each individual, a morphological 

 specialization occurs both in internal structure and external form, 

 by which distinctive characters are conferred, so that each man's 

 structural individuality is an expression of the sum of the individual 

 differences of all the constituent parts of his frame. 



Dr. W. H. Lightbody communicated a paper " On the Vascular 

 Arrangements of the Cornea," in which he pointed out that the 

 capillaries which extended for a short distance into that structure 

 were enclosed in spaces, which, from the pale, rounded, lymph- 

 corpuscular-looking cells they contained, he believed to be lymphatic 

 vessels. 



Dr. George D. Gibb refuted the view recently propounded by M. 

 Guinier, of Montpellier, that in the act of swallowing the food came in 

 contact with the vocal cords. 



Dr. Eichard Norris gave an account of a series of experiments 

 which had led him to the conclusion that rigor mortis is not a con- 

 traction, either energetic or otherwise, of muscular tissue. It is a 

 suspension of the property of extensibility, probably due to solidifica- 

 tion (coagulation ?) of a fibrenous (?) material, contained in the 

 interfibrillar juices of the muscles, as asserted by Briicke and Kuhne, 

 the resolution of which, by incipient decomposition, restores to the 

 muscles their mobility. 



An elaborate report, " On Amyl Compounds and their Physiological 

 Action," prepared at the request of the Association, was read by Dr. 

 B. W. Eichardson, and the committee of the Sub-section recommended 

 a renewal of the grant to Dr. Eichardson, in order that he might con- 

 tinue his researches on these bodies. The same gentleman also com- 

 municated a paper, Ci On Ozone," in which he summed up all the 

 physiological facts which could be relied on respecting that body. Dr. 

 Arthur Gamjee communicated the results of a number of experiments, 

 which confirmed those of Kuhne, that ammonia did not exist in the 

 blood. 



Mr. Stainton called attention to the fact that, out of eighteen 

 species of the genus Laverna, no less than ten derived their nourish- 

 ment, when in the larva state, from plants of the order Onagracea?. 

 Messrs. Westwood and Spence Bate discussed various questions 

 relative to the Anceus, which they considered to be a distinct genus, 



