CONTENTS. 

 VOL. XLV. 



No. 273. November 15, 1888. 



Page 



Combustion in dried Oxygen. By H. Brereton Baker, M.A., Dulwich 

 College, late Scholar of Balliol College, Oxford 1 



On the Mechanical Conditions of a Swarm of Meteorites, and on Theories 

 of Cosmogony. By G. H. Darwin, LL.D., F.R.S., Fellow of Trinity 

 College and Plumian Professor in the University of Cambridge 3 



On the Secretion of Saliva, chiefly on the Secretion of Salts in it. By 

 J. N. Larigley, M.A., F.R.S., Fellow of Trinity College, and H. M. 

 Fletcher, B.A., Trinity College, Cambridge 16 



Observations upon the Electromotive Changes in the Mammalian Spinal 

 Cord following Electrical Excitation of the Cortex Cerebri. Prelimi- 

 nary Notice. By Francis Gotch, M.A. Oxon., B.A., B.Sc. Loud., and 

 Victor Horsley, B.S., F.E.S., Professor of Pathology, University 

 College, London (Plate 1) 18 



List of Presents.... 26 



November 22, 1888. 



On the Specific Heats of Gases at Constant Volume. (Preliminary Note.) 

 By J. Joly, M.A., B.E 33 



Report of Researches on Silicon Compounds and their Derivatives. 

 Part I. By J. Emerson Reynolds, M.D., F.R.S., Professor of Chemistry, 

 University of Dublin 37 



Preliminary Note on a Silico-organic Compound of a new Type. By J. 

 Emerson Reynolds, M.D., F.R.S., Professor of Chemistry, University 

 of Dublin 39 



On the Magnetisation of Iron and other Magnetic Metals in very strong 

 Fields. By J. A. Ewing, B.Sc., F.R.S., Professor of Engineering in 

 University College, Dundee, and William Low 40 



The Waves on a rotating Liquid Spheroid of finite Ellipticity. By G. 

 H. Bryan, B.A 42 



List of Presents.... 45 



