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November 30, 1888. 

 ANNIVERSARY MEETING. 



Eeport of Auditors 47 



List of Fellows deceased since last Anniversary 47 



elected 48 



Address of the President , 48 



Election of Council and Officers 58 



Financial Statement 60-63 



Trust Funds 64-68 



Table showing Progress and present State of Society with regard to 

 Fellows 69 



Account of the appropriation of the sum of 4,000 (the Government 

 Grant) annually voted by Parliament to the Eoyal Society, to be em- 

 ployed in aiding the Advancement of Science 69 



Account of Grants from the Donation Fund 72 



Eeport of the Kew Committee 73 



No. 274. December 6, 1888. 



Description of the Skull of an extinct Carnivorous Marsupial of the size 

 of a Leopard (Thylacopardus australis, Ow.), from a recently opened 

 Cave near the " Wellington Cave " locality, New South Wales. By 

 Sir Eichard Owen, K.C.B., F.E.S., &c 99 



The Pectoral Group of Muscles. By Bertram C. A. Windle, M.A., M.D. 

 (Dub.), Professor of Anatomy in the Queen's College, Birmingham .... 99 



Some Observations on the Amount of Light Eeflected and Transmitted 

 by certain kinds of Glass. By Sir John Conroy, Bart., M.A., Bedford 

 Lecturer of Balliol College and Millard Lecturer of Trinity College, 

 Oxford 101 



The Specific Eesistance and other Properties of Sulphur. By James 

 Monckman, D.Sc 102 



List of Presents ,. 102 



December 13, 1888. 



Spectrum Analysis of Cadmium. By A. Griinwald, Professor of Mathe- 

 matics in the Imp. Eoy. German Polytechnic University at Prague .... 105 



On the Bending and Vibration of thin Elastic Shells, especially of Cylin- 

 drical Form. By Lord Eayleigh, M.A., D.C.L., Sec. E,S 105 



An Investigation of a Case of gradual Chemical Change. By W, H, 

 Pendlebury and M. Seward 124 



Determination of the Viscosity of Water. By A. Mallock 126 



List of Presents.... .. 133 



