CONTENTS. XI 



Weight of a given bulk of Air with reference to Meteorological 

 Phenomena in general, and to the Etiology of Epidemic Diseases. 

 By Dr Seller, . . • • . . 368 



Researches on Chinoline and its Homologues. By C. Greville 



Williams. Communicated by Dr T. Anderson, . . 370 



On Fermat's Theorem. By H. Fox Talbot, Esq., F.R.S., . 371 



On the Transmission of the Actinic Rays of Light through the Eye, 

 and their relation to the Yellow Spot of the Retina. By George 

 WUson, M.D., . . . . • .371 



On the Prismatic Spectra of the Flames of Compounds of Carbon 



and Hydrogen. By William Swan, Esq., . . • 376 



On the Laws of Structure of the more disturbed Zones of the 



Earth's Crust. By Professor H. D. Rogers, of the United States, 378 

 On a Property of Numbers. By Balfour Stewart, Esq. Commu- 

 nicated by Professor Kelland, . . . • 390 

 Analysis of Craigleith Sandstone. By Thomas Bloxam, Esq., As- 

 sistant-Chemist, Industrial Museum, with a Preliminary Note by 

 Professor George Wilson, ..... 390 

 Opening Address, Session 1856-57. By Bishop Terrot, . 398 

 On the Minute Structure of the Involuntary Muscular Tissue. By 

 Joseph Lister, Esq., F.R.C.S., Eng. and Edin. Communicated 

 by Dr Christison, . . . . • • ^^^ 

 On the Ovum and Young Fish of the Salmonidoe. By William 



Ayrton, Esq. Communicated by Professor Allman, . . 428 



Notice of the Vendace of Derwentwater, Cumberland, in a Letter 



addressed to Sir William Jardine, Bart., by John Davy, M.D., 429 

 On the Races of the Western Coast of Africa. By Colonel Luke 

 Smyth O'Conner, C.B., Governor of the Gambia. Communicated 

 by Professor Kelland, . . • • .429 



Some Remarks on the Literature and Philosophy of the Chinese. 



By the Rev. Dr Robert Lee, . . • . 433 



Observations on the Crinoidea, showing their connection with other 

 branches of the Echinoderniata. By Fort-Major Thomas Austin, 

 F.G.S. Communicated by Professor Balfour, . . 433 



On the application of the Theory of Probabilities to the question of 

 the Combination of Testimonies. By Professor Boole. Commu- 

 nicated by Bishop Terrot, ..... 435 

 On New Species of Marine Diatomaceae from the Firth of Clyde 

 and Loch Fine. By Professor Gregory, Illustrated by nume- 

 rous drawings, and by enlarged figures, all drawn by Dr Greville, 442 

 Short Verbal Notice of a simple and direct method of Computing 



the Logarithm of a Number. By Edward Sang, Esq., . 451 



On the Urinary Secretion of Fishes, with some remarks on this se- 

 cretion in other classes of animals. By John Davy, M.D., 

 F.R.SS., London and Edinburgh, . . . • 452 



On the Reproductive Economy of Moths and Bees ; being an 

 Account of the Results of Von Siebold's Recent Researches in 

 Parthenogenesis. By Professor Goodsir, . . 454 



On the Principles of the Stereoscope, and on a new mode of exhi- 

 biting Stereoscopic Pictures. By Dr W. Macdonald, . . 455 



