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Indiana, First Artide. - Kirkioood. The Comete of 1866 and the Meteors' of November 

 14th. — Carvill Lewis. A Great Trap-dyke across Southeastern Pennsylvania, 

 i Proceedings of the Boston Society of naturai History. Voi. XXII, 4; XXIII, 1. 

 Boston, 1884-85. 8°. 



XXn, 4. Brewster. Birds of the Gulf of St. Lawrence (continued). —Wadsworth. The 

 Fortieth Parallel Eocks. - Putnam. Explorations of emhlematic Mounds in Ohio and 

 Wisconsin. - Waters. Eemarks on the sense of Tasto in Birds. - Crosby. On the Chasm 

 called « Purgatory » in Sutton, Mass. - Haynes. Agricultural Implements of New England 

 Indians. - Crosby. Origin of Continents and Ocean Basin. - Wadsworth. Notes on the 

 Lithology of the Island of Jura. - XXIH, 1. Bouvé. Notes on Gems. - Kneeland. Eemarks 

 on Earthquakes. - Crosby. Eelations of the Conglomerate and Slate in the Boston Basin. - 

 Dickerman and Wadsworth. An Olivine-hearing Diabase from St. George, Me. - Bouvé. 

 The Genesis of the Boston Basin and its Eock Formations. - Shaler. On the Origin of 

 Kames. — Hyatt. Larvai Theory of the Origin of Tissues. 



v Proceedings of the Cambridge philosophical Society. Voi. V, p. 5. Cambridge, 

 1886. 8°. 



Liveing. On the measurement of kinetìc energy on an absolute scale. — Pearson. 

 On the transit of Venus, Dee. 6, 1882. - Sedgioick. On Weissmann's New Theory of 

 Heredity. — Bateson. Suggestions with regard to the nervous system of the Chordata. — 

 Alien. On the nature of the Heart-Sounds. - Oliver. On the travelling of the Transpiration 

 Current in the Crassulacese. - Gardiner. On the constitution of the walls of vegetable 

 cells and the degeneration changes occurring in them. - Wilberforce. On a new method 

 of producing the fringes of interference. - Olearski. On some experiments on the dielectnc 

 strength of mixtures of gasses. - Leahy. On the mutuai action of oscillatory twists in a 

 vihratihg medium. - Darwin and Phillips. On the transpiration-stream in cut braiich.es. 

 + Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. Voi. I, 2. Washington, 

 1884. 8°. 



+ Proceedings of the r. Ceographical Society. Voi. Vili, 3, N. M. S. March 1886. 

 London, 8°. 



Stewart. The Herat valley and the Persian Border, from the Hari-rud to Sistan. — 

 Greely. Arctic exploration, with reference to Grinnell land. - Freshfield. Further notes 

 on « Mont Everest » . 



+ Proceedings of the rovai Society. Voi. XXXIX, n. 241. London, 1886. 8°. 



Perry and Stewart. Preliminary Eesults of a Comparison of certain simultaneous 

 Fluctuations of the Declination at Kew and at Stonyhurst during the Years 1883 and 1884, 

 as recorded by the Magnetographs at these Ohservatories.— Gemmell. On the Magnetisation 

 of Steel, Cast Iron, and Soft Iron (being the Investigation for which the Watt Prize of 

 1884 was awarded by the Senate of the University of Glasgow). — Fenton. On the Limited 

 Hydration of Ammonium C arb amate. — Judd. On tht Eelation of the Eeptiliferous Sandstone 

 of Elgin to the Upper Old Eed Sandstone. — Horsley and Schàfer, Experimental Eesearches 

 in Cerebral Physiology. IL On the Muscular Contractions which are evoked by Excitation 

 of the Motor Tract. — Me Cornell. An Experimental Investigation into the Form of the 

 Wave Surface of Quartz. — Starkie Gardiner. Second Eeport on the Evidence of Fossil 

 Plants regarding the Age of the Tertiary Basalts of the North-East Atlantic. — Thin. 

 Addition to a former Paper on Trichophyton tonsurans. — Norman Lockyer.^ A New 

 Form of Spectroscope. — Thomson and Newall. On the Formation of Vortex Eings by 

 Drops falling into Liquids, and some allied Phenomena. — Norris Wolfenden. A Preliminary 



