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I. Investigations into the Effects of Training Walls in an Estuary like the 



Mersey. By L. F. Yeenon-Haecouet, M.A., M.Inst.C.E . . . 142 



II. On outlying Nerve-cells in the Mammalian Spinal Cord. By Ch. 8. 



Sheeeington, M.A., M.B., &e 144 



III. On the Germination of the Seed of the Castor-oil Plant (Ricinus com- 

 munis). By J. R. Geeen, M.A., B.Sc, F.L.S., Professor of Botany to 

 the Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain 146 



List of Presents 148 



The Assimilation of Carbon by Green Plants from certain Organic Compounds. 



By E. Hamilton Acton, M.A., Fellow of St. John's College, Cambridge 150 



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