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W. R. DUNSTAN, F.R.S., Professor of Chemistry, St. Thomas' Hospital and Pharmaceutical Society, 



G. F. FITZGERALD, F.R.S., Professor of Natural and Experimental Philosophy in the University of Dublin. 

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CONTENTS. 

 LIGHT AND ELECTRIFICATION. By OLIVER J. LODGE, F.R.S., Professor of Physics 



TWO F U N SS^EN»L L ^BS)8- OF NERVE-ACTION IN RELATION TO THE 

 MODERN NERVE-CELL. By AUGUSTUS D. WALLER, M.D., F.R.S., Lecturer on 



ON TJ^frroWlS'oF^IPHfHEHiA. By G. A BUClblASTER, M.D., Lecturer 



METHoffl^l^^^HlSAIL RESEARCH. "By ALFRED BARKER,' mI, 



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PROGRESS IN PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY DURING 1894 (Part I.). By J. W. RODGER, 



NOTES C ON THE REPRODUCTIVE ORGANS OF OLIVE-BROWN SEAWEEDS. 



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