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Ist. Private Afeeting, 



" On the reciprocal transmission of fluids through membranous tissue", 

 by Dr. Williamson. 



** On the presence of Sulphur in certain Metals, and on the impurity 

 of Hydrogen Gas" — by Mr. West. 



2nd. " The inverted position of objects of vision upon the retina" — by 

 Mr. Wildsmith. 



*' How far are animals capable of resisting the deprivation of air and 

 food .J^"- by Mr. Billam. 



3rd. " On the nature of thermometric indication" — by Mr. J. H. 

 Whitehead. 



4th. " Hints in support of the materiality of caloric" — by Mr. West. 



" Further observations on the ruins of Babylon" — by Mr. W. A. 

 Jackson. 



The Council have been induced to try this experi- 

 ment in consequence of certain suggestions contained in 

 a former Report which were favourably received at the 

 last Annual Meeting : the object was to provide some 

 regular channel for the communication of observations 

 which, from the limitation of their extent, the looseness 

 of their construction, the mode of treatment, or the 

 nature of the subject, are not adapted for presentation 

 to a miscellaneous assembly in the long and formal 

 array which the recent usage of the Society has been 

 supposed to demand in the papers delivered at ordinary 



