CONTENTS OF VOL. XXXV. 



(THIRD SERIES.) 



NUMBER CCXXXIIL— JULY 1849- 



Page 



Prof. H. Rose on the Inorganic Constituents of Organic Bodies 1 

 The Rev, S. Eamshaw on the Transformation of Linear Partial 

 DiiFerential Equations with constant Coefficients to Funda- 

 mental Forms 24 



The Rev. D. Williams's Cliff Section of Lundy Island, from the 



Sugar-Loaf to the Devil's Limekiln 28 



Note on the Geological Structure of the Asturias, particularly 

 in reference to the Nummulitic Eocene, and the Carboniferous 

 Palaeozoic Rocks of that province (extracted from a letter of 

 M. E. de Verneuil addressed to Sir Roderick I. Murchison) 34 

 Mr. C. J. Hargreave's Analytical Researches concerning Num- 

 bers 36 



M. Becquerel on the Development of Electricity in the Act of 



Muscular Contraction 53 



M. C. Despretz's Note relative to the Electricity developed by 



Muscular Contraction 55 



M. P. H. Boutigny (d'Evreux) on some facts relative to the 

 Spheroidal State of Bodies, FireOrdeal, Incombustible Man, &c. 60 



Proceedings of the Royal Society * 64 



On the Aurora Borealis of February 22, 1849 71 



On Liquid Storax and Balsam of Peru, by M. Kopp 72 



Identity of Brookite and Arkansite "75 



On the Estimation of Molybdic Acid, by M. H. Rose 75 



On Glairine, by M. Bonjean 75 



On Glairidine, by M. Bonjean 78 



On Zoiodine, by M. Bonjean 78 



Meteorological Observations for May 1849 79 



Meteorological Observations made by Mr. Thompson at the 

 Garden of the Horticultural Society at Chiswick, near 

 London ; by Mr. Veall at Boston ; by the Rev. W. Dunbar at 

 Applegarth Manse, Dumfries - shire ; and by the Rev. C. 



Clouston at Sandwick Munse, Orkney 80 



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