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Fig. 7. 



Fig. 8. 



8. At times, D puts on the appearance of the limiting line of a chan- 

 nelled-space spectrum, the " easing off " of the absorption being now on 

 one side and now on the other. 



9. Should all these phenomena be ultimately referred to the causes 

 which produce a channelled-space spectrum (one of which undoubtedly is 

 the tendency to a unilateral instead of a bilateral widening), a line-spec- 

 trum will be regarded as a special case merely, and not as an entirely 

 different spectrum, as it has been hitherto ; and the range of molecular 

 combinations in any one element from which line-spectra may be pro- 

 duced is extended. 



10. The question further arises, whether many of the short lines in 

 spectra are not remnants of channelled-space spectra. 



June 18, 1874. 

 JOSEPH DALTON HOOKER, C.B., President, in the Chair. 



Mr. Henry Bowman Brady, Mr. Augustus "Wollaston Franks, Prof. 

 Olaus Henrici, Sir Henry Sumner Maine, and Mr. Osbert Salvin were 

 admitted into the Society. 



The Presents received were laid on the table, and thanks ordered for 

 them. 



The following Papers were read : 



I. " A Contribution to the Anatomy of Connective Tissue, Nerve, 

 and Muscle, with special reference to their connexion with the 

 Lymphatic System." By G. THIN, M.D. Communicated 

 by Prof. HUXLEY, Sec. U.S. Received April 22, 1874*. 



* This Paper will appear in No. 155. 



