382 MEMOIR OF GEORGE WILSON. 



On the Artificial Preparation of Sea- Water for the Aquarium. 



Read to British Association: published in Edin. New 



Phil. Journal. 



1856. 

 On the Transmission of the Actinic Rays of Light through 



the Eye, and their Relation to the Yellow Spot of the 



Retina. Trans. R.S.E. 



1857. 

 On M. J. Nickle's Claim to be the Discoverer of Fluorine in 



the Blood. Read to R.S.E. ; published in Edin. New 



Phil. Jour. 

 On the Electric Fishes as the Earliest Electric Machine 



employed by Mankind. Read to Brit. Assoc. : published 



in Edin. New Phil. Jour. 

 On the Production of Photographs on Fluorescent Surfaces. 



Journal of Photographic Society. 



1859. 



On the Recent Vindication of the Priority of Cavendish as 



the Discoverer of the Composition of Water. Read to 



R.S.E. : published in Athenaeum. 



On Dryness, Darkness, and Coldness, as means of pre- 

 serving Photographs from fading. Journal of Photographic 



Society. 

 On the Fruits of the Cucurbitaceae and Crescentiaceas. 



Trans. Edin. Botanical Society; and Edin. New Phil. 



Journal. 

 On some of the Stages which led to the Invention of the 



Modern Air-Pump. Read to Brit. Assoc. Report of B.A. 



for 1859. In brief abstract. 

 On the Employment of the Electric Eel, Gymnotus Elec- 



tricus, as a Medical-Shock Machine, by the natives of 



Surinam. Do. do. 

 On the Statistics of Colour-Blindness. Do. do. 



