CONTENTS. 



SESSION 18 60-61. 

 November 28, 1860. 



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Rhind (William), President's Opening Address, . . 211 



I. Wright (T. Strethill), M.D., Observations on British Zoo- 

 phytes and Protozoa : — 

 (1.) Notice of Ophryodendron abietina (Gorethria sertu- 



larice), . . . . . . . 216 



(2.) On the Reproductive System of Chrysaora (Plate IX.), 218 

 II. Cleland (John), M.D., On the Serial Homologies of the 

 Articular Surfaces of the Mammalian Axis, Atlas, and 

 Occipital Bone. (Woodcut), . . . .221 



III. Smith (John Alex.), M.D., Ornithological Notes :— 



(Specimens exhibited.) 

 (1.) Falco islandicus (Lath). The Gyrfalcon, . . 226 



(2.) Picus major (Linn.) The Pied Woodpecker, . 227 



(3.) Lanius excubitor (Linn.) The Great Grey Shrike, . 227 

 (4.) Perdrix cinerea (Linn.) Common Partridge (variety), 227 



IV. Smith (John Alex.), M.D., A large Cup-shaped Sponge was 



exhibited, .... . 227 



December 26, 1860. 

 Office-bearers elected, ..... 228 



January 23, 1861. 



I. Edwards (A. M'Kenzie), F.R.C.S.E., On Inflammation in 



Fishes, ....... 228 



II. M'Bain (James), M.D., R.N., Exhibition of Sponges, with 



Explanatory Remarks, ..... 233 



III. Logan (George), Report of the Committee on Marine 

 Zoology ; with a Notice of the Sprat-Fishing in the Firth 

 of Forth, (Specimens exhibited), , . . 240 



