'13 APR. 1911 



TRANSACTIONS 



OF THE 



ROYAL SOCIETY OF EDINBURGH. 



VOLUME XLVII. PART III.— SESSION 1910-11. 



CONTENTS. 



No. Page 



XVI. The Aborigines of Tasmania. Part II. — The Skeleton. By Principal Sir William Turner, 



K.C.B., F.R.S. (With Two Plates), .411 



(Issued March 3, 1910.) 



XVII. On the Fossil Osmundacex. Part IV. By R. Kidston, LL.D., F.R.S., F.G.S., Foreign 

 Mem. K. Mineral. Gesel. zu St Petersburg, Hon. Sec. R.S.E. ; and D. T. Gwynne- 

 Vaughan, M.A., F.L.S., Professor of Botany, Queen's University, Belfast. (Flates I.-IV.), 455 



(Issued March 24, 1910.) 



XVIII. J he Lamellihranchs of the Silurian Rocks of Girvan. By Wheelton Hind, M.D., B.S., 



F.R.C.S., F.G.S. Communicated by Dr J. Horne, F.R.S. (Witli Five Plates), . . 479 



(Issued August 30, 1910.) 



XIX. The Alcyonaria of the Cape of Good Hope and Natal. Alcyonacea. By J. Stuart Thomson, 



Ph.D., F.L.S. (With Four Plates), ....... 549 



(Issued September 21, 1910.) 



XX. The Phase of the Nucleus known as. Synapsis. By A. Anstruther Lawson, Ph.D., D.Sc, 



F.L.S., F.R.S.E., Lecturer in Botany, University of Glasgow. (With Two Plates), . 591 



(Issued January 26, 1911.) 



XXI. Observations on the Body Temperature of the Domestic Foiol (Gallus gallus) during Incubation. 



By Sutherland Simpson, M.D., ........ 605 



(Issued January 13, 191 1.) 



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