548 BRITISH ASSOCIATION FOR ADVANCEMENT OP SCIENCE. 
T. Stanley, jun. 
W.T. Stanley. 
J. II. Stickney 
Boston, U.S. 
B. Sumner. 
H. J. Surmon. 
Wm. S. Surmon. 
Edwin Taylor. 
Henry Taylor. 
\V. G. Taylor, 
William 4 hacker. 
Francis Talbot. 
W. P. Toll. 
Samuel Tremlett. 
H. A. Truman. 
R. S. Tucker. 
Charles Turner. 
S. E. Turner. 
George Varnell. 
Alfred Walker. 
Charles Wallis. 
W. S. Wallis. 
Richard Walters. 
Walker Watson. 
j J. G. Webb. 
Thomas Wells. 
Geo. Wentworth. 
Richard Whitvveil. 
Thomas Wilks. 
Wilkinson & Wes- 
trop. 
John \\ ilkinson. 
| Thomas Willshire. 
A. W. Wilson. 
W. Wilson. 
S. IE Withers. 
E. Woodger. 
J. W T oodger. 
John Yates. 
Geo. Yeomans. 
Extracts from British and Foreign Journals. 
THE BRITISH ASSOCIATION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF 
SCIENCE. 
Annual Meeting held at Oxford, June 27th to July 4th. 
As all meetings connected with the science of medicine affect 
us either directly or indirectly, and as we necessarily partici¬ 
pate in the progress of the sister science, we avail ourselves 
of the summary given in the pages of our contemporary the 
Lancet , of those papers which were read at the annual meet¬ 
ing of the British Association for the Advancement 
of Science, lately held at Oxford, “ relating to medical 
subjects, in which physiology and its allied sciences occupied 
a prominent place.” 
“The sub-section of ‘Physiology’ was opened by a most eloquent 
address from Dr. Rolleston, the new Linacre Professor of Physiology 
in the University. It abounded in matter connected with this branch 
of study, contained many classical quotations from ancient writers, and 
referred to many of their views. 
“ Professor Cams, of Leipsic, read a paper on the ‘ Lepticephalidae ’ 
(a species of fishes), in which their anatomy and systematic position 
were considered. From the researches he had made, he clearly proved 
that these animals are merely the larval forms of other fishes, and that 
thev should he erased from the position they have hitherto occupied. 
They are not destitute of a spleen, although it is difficult to find, being 
not larger than a small pin’s head. They possess no ribs, hut merely 
fibrous filaments ; there is not a trace of generative organs to be met 
with, and the skin is entirely destitute of scales. An animated discussion 
