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May 3, 1855. 



CHARLES WHEATSTONE, Esq., V.P., in the Chair. 



In accordance with the Statutes, the Secretary read the following 

 list of Candidates recommended by the Council for election into the 

 Society. 



Arthur Connell, Esq. 

 William Farr, Esq. 

 William Lewis Ferdinand Fis- 

 cher, Esq. 

 Isaac Fletcher, Esq. 

 William John Hamilton, Esq. 

 John Hawkshaw, Esq. 

 John Hippisley, Esq. 

 James Luke, Esq. 



A. Follett Osier, Esq. 

 Thomas Thomson, M.D. 

 Charles B. Vignoles, Esq. 

 Charles Vincent Walker, Esq. 

 Robert Wight, M.D. 

 Alexander William Williamson, 



Esq. 

 George Fergusson Wilson, Esq. 



The reading of Dr. PAVY'S paper, entitled "An Experimental 

 Inquiry into the nature of the metamorphosis of Saccharine 

 Matter, as a normal process of the animal economy," was 

 resumed and concluded. 



The author begins by observing, that the saccharine matter met 

 with in the animal economy is derived from two sources from the 

 vegetable kingdom, and from the liver of the animal itself ; in each 

 case being poured into the general circulation through the hepatic 

 veins. The liver not only enjoys the power of forming sugar, but 

 it likewise exerts (as shown by the experiments of Bernard) some 

 modifying influence over that which is traversing its capillaries and 

 which has been absorbed from the food, by which it is transformed 

 from vegetable into animal sugar, and thus rendered more apt for 

 serving in the processes of animal life. 



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