CONTENTS (continued). 



December 14, 1882. 



PAGE 



I. The Development of Menilla. By Edmund B. Wilson, Ph.D. . . 384 



II. On the Morphology and the Development of the Perithecium of Meliola, 



a Genus of Tropical Epiphyllous Fungi. By H. Marshall Waed, 

 B.A., Fellow of Owens College, Victoria University ; late Cryptogamist 

 to the Ceylon Government . - 388 



III. Note on a Discovery, as yet unpublished, by the late Professor E. M. 

 Balfour, concerning the Existence of a Blastopore, and on the Origin 

 of the Mesoblast in the Embryo of Peripatus Capensis. By Professor 

 Moseley, F.R.S., and Adam Sedgwick, M.A., Eellow of Trinity 



College, Cambridge . . . . . . . ... 390 



IV. On the Refraction of Plane Polarised Light at the Surface of a Uniaxal 

 Crystal. II. By R. T. Glazebbo ok, M.A., F.R.S., Fellow and 

 Lecturer of Trinity College, Demonstrator in the Cavendish Laboratory, 



Cambridge . . . . . . 393 



List of Presents . . . 395 



Obituary Notices : — 



Sie James Aldeeson vi 



Chaeles Ansell . . , . . . ' vii 



Decimus Bueton viii 



Right Hon. Sie James Colvile x 



De. Geoege Dickie xii 



Ronald Campbell G-unn . xiir 



John Scott Russell xv 



Colonel J. T. Smith xvi 



Now published. Price 4s. 



CATALOGUE OF THE SCIENTIFIC BOOKS IN THE LIBRARY OF 

 THE ROYAL SOCIETY. 



Fiest Section : — Containing Transactions, Journals, Observations and Repo rts, 



Surveys, Museums. 



GOVERNMENT GRANT OF £4000 



FOR THE PROMOTION OF SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH. 



A Meeting of the Government-Grant Committee will be held in April, 1883. It 

 is requested that applications to be considered at that Meeting be forwarded to 

 the Secretaries of the Royal Society, Burlington House, before the 31st of March 

 next. 



HARRISON AND SONS, 45 & 46, ST. MARTIN'S LANE, W.C., 



AND ALL BOOKSELLEES. 



