1873.] Library. 1B3 



LlBTtAKY. 



The following additions have been made to the Library since the meet- 

 ing held in July last. • 



Presentations. 

 # *^ Names of Douors in Capitals. 



Royal Society, Proceedings, Nos. 139-143. 



No. 139. A. Rattray — Further experiments on the more important Physiological 

 Changes induced in the Human Economy by Change of Climate. A. Ransome — On 

 the mechanical conditions of the Respiratory Movements in Man. 



No. 140. E. Raxj Lankester — A contribution to the knowledge of Haemoglobin. 

 J. Norman Lockyer — Researches in Spectrum-Analysis in connexion with the spectrum 

 of the Sun. 



No. 1-11. J. N, Lockyer and G. M. Seabrooke — On a new method of viewing the 

 Chromosphere. R. J. Lee — Further remarks on the Sense of Sight in Birds. W. Hug- 

 gins — Note on the Wide-slit Method of viewing the Solar Prominences. Professor 

 Owen — On the Fossil Mammals of Australia, family Mocropodidce. H. C. Bastian — 

 Note on' the origin of Bacteria and on their relation to the process of Putrefaction. 



No. 142. Br. W. Kowalevsky — On the Osteology of the Hyopotamidce. F. Gu- 

 thrie — On a new relation between Heat and Electricity. H N. Moseley — On the Ana- 

 tomy and Histology of the Land-Planarians of Ceylon, with some account of their habits, 

 and a description of two new species, and with notes on the Anatomy of some European 

 Aquatic species. H. Airy — On Leaf-arrangement. 



No. 143. Rudolph von Willemoes-suhm — On a new Genus of Amphipod Crusta- 

 ceans. J. D. Macdonald — On the Distribution of the Invertebrata in relation to the 

 theory of Evolution. H. C. Bastian — On the temperature at which Bacteria, Vibriones 

 and their supposed Germs are killed when immersed in fluids or exposed to heat 

 in a moist state. The Earl of Rosse — The Bakerian Lecture : On the Radiation of Heat 

 from the Moon, the Law of its Absorption by our atmosphere and its variation in 

 amount with her Phases. E. A. Schaffer — On the structure of striped Muscular 

 Fibre. Sir B. C. Brodie — Note on the synthesis of Marsh-Gas and Formic Acid and 

 on the Electric Decomjaosition of Carbonic Oxide. J. H. Gladstone and A. Tribe — On 

 an Air-Battery. 



Philosophical Transactions, Vol. 161, part II, and Vol. 162, part I. 



Vol. 161, Part II. General Svr E. Sabine. — Eecords of the Magnetic Phenomena 

 at the Kew Observatory, Analysis of the Principal Disturbances shown by the Hori- 

 zontal and Vertical Force Magnetometers of the Kew Observatory from 1859 to 1864. 

 Archdeacon Pratt — On the constitution of the Solid Crust of the Earth. N. Story - 

 Maskelyne — On the Mineral Constituents of Meteorites. H.E. Roscoe — On the Measure- 

 ment of the Chemical Intensity of Total Daylight made at Catania during the Total 

 Eclipse of December 22nd, 1870. W. C. Williamson — On the Organization of Fossil 

 Plants of the Coal-measures: Calamites. A. Giintlier — Description of Geratodus, a 

 genus of Ganoid Fishes, recently discovered in the rivers of Queensland, Australia. 



Vol. 162, Part I. — E. G. Stone — An experimental determination of the Velocity of 

 Sound. P. M. Duncan — On the structure and affinities of Gv.ynia annulata, Dune. 

 with remarks upon the persistence of Pateozoic Types of Madreporaria. A. Macalister 

 — The Myology of the Cheiroptera. W. C. Williamson — On the organization of the 

 Fossil Plants of the Coal-measures : Lycopodiacese, Lepidodendra, and Sigillariaj. 



