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and explore the part of Africa between the Zambesi and 

 Port Natal. He hoped to .have the company of Captain 

 Palliser, 1 and would be glad if men of science would suggest 

 matter deserving investigation. 



On April 2oth, the iO2nd meeting, Dr. Gassiot exhibited 

 a photograph of spots on the sun, taken at Kew with the 

 photoheh'ograph on March 15 th last, which showed that 

 the principal difficulties in manipulation had been sur- 

 mounted. 



Professor Tyndall stated that he had found by experiments 

 that the readiness with which liquids assume a spheroidal 

 condition depends on their power of absorbing radiant heat, 

 and this, when of low intensity, is readily arrested in those 

 into the composition of which hydrogen enters. 



Dr. Hooker said that Dr. Livingstone, writing from Sierra 

 Leone, had stated that Lieut. Glover, in his journey after 

 the wreck of the Dayspring, had recovered some of Mungo 

 Park's 2 manuscripts, written on stray leaves of a table of 

 logarithms. 



On May 2Oth, the I03rd meeting, M. Brown-Sequard 3 (guest 

 of Dr. Bence Jones) described the results of his experiments 

 in transfusion of blood on dogs and rabbits in articulo mortis, 

 to which they had been brought by injuries to the intestines 

 and peritoneum. When apparently at the last gasp, with 

 the heart barely beating, blood was transfused from other 

 animals. This produced instantaneous effect restoration 



1 Perhaps W. R. G. Palliser, commander in the Royal Navy, who, in 

 1854, distinguished himself in expeditions against Chinese pirates. 



2 Mungo Park (1771-1806) explored the Upper Niger from 1795 to 1799. 

 He undertook, under Government auspices, a second expedition in 1805, and 

 was killed, with all his men, on his journey down that river, at Boussa 

 {Northern Nigeria) in a conflict with the natives, but the particulars of his 

 fate were not ascertained till 1812. 



3 C. E. Brown-Sequard, born at Port-Louis, Mauritius, on April 8th, 

 1817, had an American for father and a French woman for mother. He 

 graduated in medicine in Paris, and for a time practised in London. Then 

 he held Professorships in the United States and in Paris, to which he finally 

 returned as Professor of Experimental Medicine at the College de France, 

 where he died on April 2nd, 1894. He was highly distinguished as a 

 physiologist, who was a daring experimenter, and made most valuable 

 contributions to science. 



