CONTENTS. 



PART I. (1913-14.) 



NUMBER PAGK 



I. Sphserostoma ovale (Conostoma ovale et intermedium, Williamson), 

 a Lower Carboniferous Ovule from Petty cur, Fifeshire, Scotland. 

 By Margaret J. Benson, D.Sc, Professor of Botany in the Uni- 

 versity of London, Head of the Department of Botany at the Royal 

 Holloway College, Englefield Green, Surrey. Communicated by 

 Dr R. Kidston, F.R.S. (Plates I and II), . . . - . 1 



II. Studies on the Pharmacological Action of Tetra-Alhyl- Ammonium 

 Compounds. I. The Action of Tetra-Methyl- Ammonium Chloride. 

 By Professor C. R. Marshall, . . . . .17 



III. Polychseta of the family Nereidae, collected by the Scottish National 



Antarctic Expedition {1902-190 A). By L. N. G. Ramsay, M.A., 

 B.Sc., Carnegie Research Scholar, Christ's College, Cambridge. 

 Communicated by Dr J. H. Ashworth. (Plate III), . . 41 



IV. On the Genus Porponia and Related Genera, Scottish National 



Antarctic Expedition. By Professor Oskar Carlgren, Universitetets 

 Zoologiska Institution, Lund. Communicated by Dr W. S. Bruce. 

 (Plate IV), 49 



V. On the Fossil Flora of the Staffordshire Coal Fields. Part III. — The 

 Fossil Flora of the Westphalian Series of the South Staffordshire 

 Coal Field. By R Kidston, LL.D., F.R.S. (Plates V-XVI), . 73 



VI. The Anatomy of a New Species of Bathydoris, and the Affinities of 

 the Genus : Scottish National Antarctic Expedition. By T. J. 

 Evans, M.A. (Oxon.), Lecturer in Zoology in the University of 

 Sheffield. Communicated by Dr J. H. Ashworth. (Plates XVII 

 and XVIII), . . . . . . . .191 



