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Mr. G. L. VosE read a paper entitled **Conipression as an age 
B buit Metamorphism; with Ill patria of pte torted Pobtiis in 
Conglomerates.” The metamorphic regions. are compressed regions. 
Compression produces liest and icol: not only a outward form but 
also the mineral nature of the ro 
| Prof. VERRILL, in his paper a «ioo dodi Phyllopod hired Po 
] àn account of the habits, etc., of our species of Branchipus and A ia. 
Of the latter he has obtained two new species, one from Mono Suhl 
l "California, and the other in numerous individuals from tubs of salt water 
| 'Thes 

marsh, have become very salt by CM in the sun, thus giving the 
ordinary conditions for the dev elopment of this "pias: genus. 
n her paper **On the Plumage of the Tern,” Miss. G. A. Lewis de- 
scribed the structure of kd feather, illustrating vais descriptions with 
Several microscopic draw 
Miss. pci in her ied on the Structure of the Animal King- 
dom," Says, from the radiate to man there does not appear to be any 
direct line of connection from the higher members of one group to the 

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road towards the perfection of its types, but not necessarily 
turned ec the branch or class above. It is probably the same line 
t refe 
Perceived by Haekel, and which he as “commencing with 
Amphioxus, and proceeding thro the Lampreys and the extinct allies 
of the Sharks to the Lepidosirens, thence through Proteus and its con- 
| Seners to the Tritons and Salamanders, and o " eee 
(Ornithorhyn neus). The line passes through the Marsu 
the old acris Monkeys (Semnopithecus) and the Anthropoid pul (Orang 
lla).^ 





ànd Gori] 
The axial line was distinguished by the writer in the suminer of 1867, 
and was alluded to in a little pamphlet published in the spring of 
1868. She would begin with the lower radiates, pass through the ee 


pol 
onion of man. There are, however, some very. curious exceptions to 

