CONTENTS. 
Transactions of the Society — PA6 b 
III. — Report on an Earthworm collected for the Natural 
History Department of the British Museum, by 
Emin Pasha, in Equatorial Africa. By W. Blaxland 
Benham, D.Sc., Assistant to the Deputy Linacre Pro- 
fessor of Comparative Anatomy in the University of 
Oxford (Plates III. and IV.) 161 
SUMMARY OF CURRENT RESEARCHES. 
ZOOLOGY. 
A. VERTEBRATA : — Embryology, Histology, and General. 
a. Embryology* 
Minot, C. S. — Fate of the Human Decidua reflexa 169 
Heape, W. — Transplantation and Growth of Mammalian Ova within a Uterine 
Foster-mother 169 
Kastschenko, N . — Maturation of the Ova of Elasmobranchs 170 
Schneider, A . — Early Stages in Development of Elasmobranchs 170 
Ryder, J. A. — Yolk-sac of Young Toad-fish 170 
Corning, H. K . — The Origin of Blood from the Endoderm 171 
£. Histology. 
Frcmmann, C . — Streaming Movements of Protoplasm 171 
Schneider, K. C. — Cell-Structure 171 
Ryder, J. A . — Two New and Undescribed Methods of Contractility in Filaments of 
Protoplasm 172 
Hover, H . — Suitable Object for Study of “ Direct ” Nuclear Division 173 
y. General. 
Parker, T. J . — Biological Terminology 173 
Preyer, J . — AnaMosis 173 
Penard, E . — Chlorophyll in the Animal Kingdom 174 
Shore, T. W . — Origin of the Liver 174 
Klebs, R . — Fauna of Amber 174 
B. INVERTEBRATA. 
Leidy, J . — Notices of Entozoa 175 
Mollusca. 
a. Cephalopoda. 
Joubin, L . — Development of Chromatophores of Octopod Cephalopoda 175 
y. Gastropoda. 
Henchman, A. P . — Origin and Development of Central Nervous System in Limax 
maximus 176 
Grobben, C . — Pericardial Gland of Gastropoda 176 
Willem, V . — Vision of Pvlmonate Gastropods 177 
5. Lamellibranchiata. 
Schulze, F. E . — Crystalline Style 177 
Letellier, A . — Benal Function of Acephalous Mollusca 178 
Pelseneer, P . — Hermaphrodite Lamellibranchs 178 
„ ,, Otocysts of Nuculidx 178 
Molluscoida. 
a. Tunicata. 
Salensky, W . — Embryonic Development of Pyrosoma 178 
Lee, A, B. — Sense-organ of Salpa 179 
