V. " Summary of a paper on the Influence of Oxygen on the 



vital properties of the Spinal Cord, Nerves, and Muscles." 

 (See vol. viii. p. 598.) 



VI. " Summary of a paper on the Power possessed by Motor 

 and Sensitive Nerves of retaining their vital properties 

 longer than Muscles, when deprived of Blood." By E. 

 BROWN -SEQUARD, M.D. 



(See vol. viii. p. 600.) 



VII. "Ocular Spectres, Structures, and Functions, Mutual 

 Exponents." By JAMES JAGO, A.B., M.B. &c. 



(For Abstract, see vol. viii. p. 603.) 



VIII. " On Hourly Observations of the Magnetic Declination 

 made by Capt. Maguire, R.N., and the Officers of H.M. 

 Ship ' Plover/ in 1852, 1853 and 1854, at Point Barrow, on 

 the Shores of the Polar Sea." By Major-General EDWARD 

 SABINE, Treas. and V.P.R.S. &c. 



(For Abstract, see vol. viii. p. 610.) 



November 26, 1857. 



Major-Gen. SABINE, R.A., Treasurer and V.P., in the Chair. 



In accordance with the Statutes, notice was given of the ensuing 

 Anniversary Meeting, and the list of Officers and Council proposed 

 for election was read as follows : 



President The Lord Wrottesley, M.A. 

 Treasurer Major- General Sabine, R.A. 



fWilliam Sharpey, M.D. 

 Secretaries { , 



^George Gabriel Stokes, Esq., M.A. 



Foreign Secretary William Hallows Miller, Esq., M.A. 



Other Members of the Council. James Moncrieff Arnott, Esq. ; 

 George Busk, Esq. ; Arthur Farre, M.D. ; Edward Frankland, 

 Ph.D. ; John Peter Gassiot, Esq. ; William Robert Grove, Esq., M.A. ; 

 Philip Hardwick, R.A. ; Joseph Dalton Hooker, M.D. ; Leonard 

 Horner, Esq. ; James P. Joule, Esq., LL.D. j Richard Owen, Esq., 



