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CONTENTS. 
BOTANY AND ZOOLOGY. 
Botany. 
Mr. T. C. Archer’s Remarks upon some Peculiarities discovered in Liquid 
Caoutchouc.. 
-on some Materials for making Paper . 
Page 
96 
97 
Professor Balfour on the Occurrence in Coal of peculiar Vegetable Organisms 
resembling the Sporangia of Lycopodium . 97 
Professor George Dickie on Associations of Colour and Relations of Colour 
and Form in Plants . 98 
Mr. G. Lawson on the Stipular Glands of Rubiaccic . 99 
Rev. Professor J. M’Cosil’s Observations on the Morphology of Pines and 
Firs . 99 
' — some further Observations on the Correspondence 
between the Leaf-Venation and Ramification of the Plant . 100 
on some Traces of Harmonious Colours in Plants 
and the Plumage of Birds .. 101 
Ma “ r _ ATT 0,1 , some New Mosses, and on recent Additions to the 
Muscology or Liverpool ... . .. . . . ^ j Q 2 
M nt™? WELL T.', -,° n s hc Avruu {?ement of the Air Canals in the 
Nymphicaceae (the Water Lilies). 102 
Pr cST REDFEUN ° n the Nttture of the Torbanehill and other Varieties of 
r "" n * h ° 
102 
Mr. James Yates on Stangeria Paradoxa 
103 
104 
Zoology. 
Pr rc f S2rTK™d°0dS e uf Organ. 
Ojauide o' twlm 
Mr. Isaac Byerly on the Fauna of Liverpool ...!.. 
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smooth perpendicular SurfHo™“ ' Wl “* »«■ onahlcd t„ adhere to 
. 109 
105 
106 
107 
