CONTENTS. 
SESSION 18 60-61. 
Novemher 28, 1860. 
PAGE 
Rhind (William), President's Opening Address, . . 211 
I. Wright (T. Strethill), M.D., Observations on British Zoo- 
phytes and Protozoa : — 
(1.) Notice of Ophryodendron ahietina (CoretJiria sertu- 
larice), ....... 216 
(2.) On the Reproductive System of OArysaom (Plate IX.), 218 
11. 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 (LatK). The Gyrfalcon, . . 226 
(2.) Picus major {Linn.) The Pied Woodpecker, . 227 
(3.) Lanius excubitor (Linn.) The Great Grey Shrike, . 227 
{^.) 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 2S, 1861. 
I. Edwards (A. M'Kenzie), F.R.C.S.E., On Inflammation in 
Fishes, ....... 228 
TI. 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 
