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CONTENTS. 



I. Proceedings. 



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Office-bearers and Council, 189- r 

 Report of the Council .... 

 Summary of Proceedings at the Meetings 

 Laws of the Society .... 

 List of Members ..... 

 Librarian's Report (with list of additions to Library) 

 Treasurer's Balance Sheet 



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vii. 

 viii. 



ix. 



xv. 



xx. 

 xxiv. 

 xxx. 



II. Transactions. 



Presidential Address on Botanic Gardens — Past and 

 Present. By R. J. Harvey Gibson, M.A., 

 F.L.S 1 



Ninth Annual Report of the Liverpool Marine 

 Biology Committee and their Biological Station 

 at Port Erin. By Prof. Herdman, D.Sc.,F.R.S. 34 



Free-Swimming Copepoda from the West Coast of 



Ireland. By Isaac C. Thompson, F.L.S. . 92 



Report on the Investigations carried on in 1895 in 

 connection with the Lancashire Sea-Fisheries 

 Laboratory at University College, Liverpool. 

 By Professor W. A. Herdman, D.Sc, F.R.S., 

 and Mr. Andrew Scott, Fisheries Assistant. 104 



Notes on the Distribution of Amphipoda. By 



Alfred 0. Walker, F.L.S 178 



Ferns and Flowering Plants ; a Chapter in Evolution. 



By D. H. Scott, M.A., Ph.D., F.R.S. . . 181 



Additional Observations on the Vitality and Ger- 

 mination of Seeds. By A. J. Ewart, B.Sc, 

 Ph.D. (Leipzig) 185 



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