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THE ROYAL SOCIETY. 



Series B. Vol. 81. No. B 55o. 



BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES. 



CONTENTS. 



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The Development of Trypanosoma gambiense in Glossina palpalis. By 

 Colonel Sir DAVID BRUCE, C.B., F.R.S., Army Medical Service ; 

 Captains A. E. HAMERTON, D.S.O., and H. R. BATEMAN, Royal Army 

 Medical Corps ; and Captain F. P. MACKIE, Indian Medical Service. 

 (Sleeping Sickness Commission of the Royal Society, 1908.) (Plates 10 

 and 1 1) . 4«5 



A Note on the Occurrence of a Trypanosome in the African Elephant. By 

 Colonel Sir DAVID BRUCE, C.B., F.R.S., Army Medical Service ; 

 Captains A. E. HAMERTON, D.S.O., and H. R. BATEMAN, Royal Army 

 Medical Corps ; and Captain F. P. MACKIE, Indian Medical Service. 

 (Sleeping Sickness Commission of the Royal Society, 1908.) (Plate 12) 4'4 



The Ferments and Latent Life of Resting Seeds. By JEAN WHITE, M.Sc, 



Victorian Government Research Scholar . . . . . 4 '7 



CROONIAN LECTURE— The Functions of the Pituitary Body. By 



E. A. SCHAFER, F.R.S. 442 



On the Occurrence of Protandric Hermaphroditism in the Mollusc Crepidula 

 fornicata. By J. H. ORTON, A.R.C.S., Marshall Scholar in the Royal 

 College of Science, London (Imperial College of Science and Technology) 468 



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