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ginnings, especially in reference to Connecting Fibres of the Brain." read 

 before the Royal Society March 23, 1865. By W. H. Flower, F.R.S ..... 184 



On the Size of Pins for Connecting Flat Links in the Chains of Suspension 

 Bridges. By Sir Charles Fox .................................. 139 



On the Influence of Quantity of Matter over Chemical Affinity, as shown 

 in the formation of certain Double Chlorides and Oxalates. By George 

 Rainey, M.R.C.S., Lecturer on Microscopical Anatomy, and Demon- 

 strator of Surgical Anatomy at St. Thomas s Hospital .............. 144 



Report on the New Unit of Electrical Resistance proposed and issued by 

 the Committee on Electrical Standards appointed in 1861 by the British 

 Association. By Fleeming Jenkin, Esq ........................... 154 



Researches on the Hydrocarbons of the Series C n H 2?t+2 . By C. Schor- 

 lemmer, Esq., Assistant in the Laboratory of Owens College, Manchester . 164 



Introductory Memoir on Plane Stigmatics. By Alexander J. Ellis, F.R.S. 176 



Further Experiments on the Production of Organisms in Closed Vessels. By 

 George Child, M.D ............................................... 178 



On the Magnetic Character of the Iron-built Armour-plated Battery ' Per- 

 venetz' of the Imperial Russian Navy. By Capt. J. Belavenetz, R.I.N., 

 Superintendent of the Compass Observatory at St. Petersburg .......... 186 



Notes of Researches on the Acids of the Lactic Series. No. V. Action of 

 Zinc upon a mixture of Ethyl Oxalate and Amyl Iodide. By Edward 

 Frankland, F.R.S., and B. F. Duppa, Esq ........................... 191 



Notes of Synthetical Researches on Ethers. No. I. Synthesis of Butyric 

 and Caproic Ethers from Acetic Ether. By Edward Frankland, F.R.S., 

 and B. F. Duppa, Esq ........................................... 198 



On the Properties of Liquefied Hydrochloric Acid Gas. By George Gore, 



On the Production of the so-called " Acute Cestode Tuberculosis " by the 

 administration of the Proglottides of T&nia mediocctnellata. By James 

 Beart Simonds, Esq., Professor of Cattle-Pathology in the Royal Veteri- 

 nary College, and T. Spencer Cobbold, M.D., F.R.S., F.L.S ........... 214 



On the Rate of Passage of Crystalloids into and out of the Vascular and 

 Non-Vascular Textures of the Body. By Henry Bence Jones, A.M., M.D., 

 F.R.S ......................................................... 220 



Lunar Influence on Temperature. By J. Park Harrison, Esq., M.A ....... 223 



On the ultimate Nerve-fibres distributed to Muscle and some other Tissues, 

 with observations upon the Structure and probable Mode of Action of a 

 Nervous Mechanism. Being the Croonian Lecture for 1865, delivered 

 by Lionel S. Beale, M.B., F.R.S., Fellow of the Royal College of Physi- 

 cians, Professor of Physiology and of General and Morbid Anatomy in 

 King's College, London ; Physician to King's College Hospital ........ 229 



On Newton's Rule for the Discovery of Imaginary Roots of Equations. By 

 J. J. Sylvester, F.R.S ........................................... 268 



On the Application of Physiological Tests for certain Organic Poisons, and 

 especia 



the Application of Physiological Tests for certain Organic Poisons, and 

 specially Digitalinc. By C. Hilton Faggc, M.])., and Thomas Steven- 



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