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PROCEEDINGS

OF THE

ROYAL SOCIETY OF LONDON.

From January 18 to April 26, 1894.

VOL. LV.

LONDON:

IIARRISON AND SONS, ST. MARTIN'S LANE,

Printers in Ordinary to Her Majesty.

LONDON:

HARRISON AND SONS, PRINTERS IN ORDINARY TO HER MAJESTY,

ST. MARTIN'S LANE.

CONTENTS.

No. 331.-January 18, 1894.

On Homogeneous Division of Space. By Lord Kelvin, P.R.S.

An Estimate of the Degree of Legitimate Natality, as shown in the

Table of Natality compiled by the Author from Observations made

at Budapest. By Joseph Körösi, Member of the Hungarian

Academy of Sciences, Director of Municipal Statistics

Results derived from the Natality Table of Kőrösi by employing the

Method of Contours or Isogens. By Francis Galton, F.R.S.

Appendix to a Communication entitled "The Mechanical Equivalent of

Heat." By E. H. Griffiths, M.A.

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On the Reflection and Refraction of Light. By G. A. Schott, B.A.

(Cantab.), B.Sc. (Lond.), formerly Scholar of Trinity College, Cam-

On the Transformation of Optical Wave Surfaces by Homogeneous

Strain. By Oliver Heaviside, F.R.S.

List of Presents

January 25, 1894.

On Intra-cranial Pressure. Preliminary Note. By Leonard Hill,

M.B., Assistant Professor of Physiology, University College, London

Experimental Researches into the Functions of the Cerebellum. By

J. S. Risien Russell, M.D., M.R.C.P., Assistant Physician to the

Metropolitan Hospital

The Effect produced upon Respiration by Faradic Excitation of the

Cerebrum in the Monkey, Dog, Cat, and Rabbit. By W. G. Spencer,

M.S., M.B., Assistant-Surgeon to the Westminster Hospital.......

The Pathology of the Edema which accompanies Passive Congestion.

By Walter S. Lazarus-Barlow, M.B., M.R.C.P..

List of Presents

On Copper Electrolysis in Vacuo. By William Gannon, M.A., “1851

Exhibition" Scholar, Queen's College, Galway

Note on the Action of Copper Sulphate and Sulphuric Acid on Metallic

Copper. By Arthur Schuster, Ê.R.S...........

No. 332.-February 1, 1894.

Insect Sight and the Defining Power of Composite Eyes. By A.

Mallock.........................

The Action of Heat upon Ethylene. By Vivian B. Lewes.......................

An Instrument for grinding Section-plates and Prisms of Crystals of

Artificial Preparations accurately in the desired Directions. By A.

E. Tutton, Assoc. R.C.S., Demonstrator of Chemistry at the Royal

College of Science, South Kensington............

An Instrument of Precision for producing Monochromatic Light of any

desired Wave-length, and its Use in the Investigation of the Optical

Properties of Crystals. By A. E. Tutton, Assoc. R.C.S., Demon-

strator of Chemistry at the Royal College of Science, South Ken-

On Hollow Pyramidal Ice Crystals. By Karl Grossmann, M.D.,

F.R.C.S E., and Joseph Lomas, A.R.C.Sc.

List of Presents

February 8, 1894.

Further Observations on the Organisation of the Fossil Plants of the

Coal-Measures. Part I. Calamites, Calamostachys, and Spheno-

phyllum. By W. C. Williamson, LL.D., F.R.S., Emeritus Professor

of Botany in the Owens College, Manchester, and D. H. Scott, M.A.,

Ph.D., F.L.S., F.G.S., Honorary Keeper of the Jodrell Laboratory,

Royal Gardens, Kew

Researches on the Germination of the Pollen Grain and the Nutrition

of the Pollen Tube. By J. Reynolds Green, M.A., B.Sc., Professor

of Botany to the Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain..............

List of Presents

February 15, 1894.

On certain Ternary Alloys. Part VIII. Alloys containing Aluminium,

Cadmium, and Tin; Aluminium, Antimony, and Lead; or Aluminium,

Antimony, and Bismuth. By C. R. Alder Wright, D.Sc., F.R.S.,

Lecturer on Chemistry and Physics in St. Mary's Hospital Medical

On the Photographic Arc Spectrum of Iron Meteorites. By Professor

J. Norman Lockyer, C.B., F.R.S.

On the Straining of the Earth resulting from Secular Cooling. By

Charles Davison, M.A., Mathematical Master at King Edward's

High School, Birmingham......

Chemical Analysis of the Meteoric Stone found at Makariwa, near

Invercargill, New Zealand, in the year 1886. By L. Fletcher, M.A.,

F.R.S., Keeper of Minerals in the British Museum....

BAKERIAN LECTURE.-On the Relations between the Viscosity (Internal

Friction) of Liquids and their Chemical Nature.

D.Sc., F.R.S., and J. W. Rodger, Assoc. R.C.S.

List of Presents

By T. E. Thorpe,

Note on some Changes in the Blood of the General Circulation conse-

quent upon certain Inflammations of an acute local character. By

C. S. Sherrington, M.D., F.R.S., Lecturer of Physiology, St. Thomas's

Hospital, Professor-Superintendent of the Brown Institution,

London. [Plate 1].......

List of Candidates

No. 333.-March 1, 1894.

Preliminary Note on Bilateral Degeneration in the Spinal Cord of

Monkeys (Macacus sinicus) following Unilateral Lesion of the Cortex

Cerebri. By E. L. Mellus, M.D..................................................

On the Relations of the Secular Variation of the Magnetic Declination

and Inclination at London, Cape of Good Hope, St. Helena, and

Ascension Island, as exhibited on the Magnetarium.

Terrestrial Refraction in the Western Himalayan Mountains. By

General J. T. Walker, C.B., R.E., F.R.S.

On a Spherical Vortex. By M. J. M. Hill, M.A., D.Sc., Professor of

Mathematics in University College, London..........

Researches on the Structure, Organisation, and Classification of the

Fossil Reptilia. Part IX. Section 1. On the Therosuchia. By

H. G. Seeley, F.R.S.

Researches on the Structure, Organisation, and Classification of the

Fossil Reptilia. Part IX. Section 2. On the reputed Mammals

from the Karroo Formation of Cape Colony. By H. G. Seeley,

Researches on the Structure, Organisation, and Classification of the

Fossil Reptilia. Part IX. Section 3. On Diademodon. By H. G.

On the Effect of Magnetisation upon the Dimensions of Wires_and

Rings of Annealed Iron. By Shelford Bidwell, M.A., LL.B.,

On Correlation of certain External Parts of Palæmon serratus. By H.

Thompson.............

List of Presents

Croonian Lecture.-La fine Structure des Centres Nerveux. By S.

Ramón y Cajal, Professor of Physiology in the University of Madrid.

List of Presents

March 15, 1894.

The Thermal Radiation from Sun Spots. Preliminary Notes of Obser-

vations made at Daramona, Streete, Co. Westmeath, 1893. By

W. E. Wilson, M.R.I.A.

Experimental Investigations on the Effective Temperature of the Sun,

made at Daramona, Streete, Co. Westmeath. By W. E. Wilson,

M.R.I.A., and P. L. Gray, B.Sc., Assoc. R.C.S., Demonstrator of

Physics, Mason College, Birmingham....

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