XXIV 



INDEX. 



Cockle (Sir James) elected an auditor, 



434. 

 Colour box, experiments with Lord 



Rayleigh's (Schuster), 140. 

 Comet a 1890 and the nebula G.C. 



4058, on the spectra of (Lockyer), 



165, 217. 



Common (A. A.) elected an auditor, 434. 

 Corpus callosum and fornix in the 



marmoset monkey, on the course of 



the fibres of the cingulum and the 



posterior parts of the (Beevor), 271. 

 Council, nomination of, 452. 

 election of, 475. 



Darwin (Or. H.) on the harmonic ana- 

 lysis of tidal observations of high and 

 low water, 278. 



Pavison (C.) on the British earthquakes 

 of 1889, 275. 



.Dewar (J ) and G. D. Liveing, the 

 spectroscopic properties of dust, 437. 



Dines (W. II.) on wind pressure upon 

 an inclined surface, 233. 



Diphtheria, a contribution to the etio- 

 logy of (Klein), 71. 



Donation Fund, grants from the, 490. 



Dust, the spectroseopic properties of 

 (Liveing and Dewar), 437. 



Earthquakes of 1889, on the British 

 (Davison), 275. 



Election of Fellows, 104. 



Electric currents, on the heating effects 

 of. No. IV (Preece), 68. 



Electrical excitation of the so-called 

 motor cortex and internal capsule in 

 an orang outang (Simia satt/rus), a 

 record of the results obtained by 

 (Beevor and Horsley), 159. 



Electromotive force of cells consisting 

 of certain metals, platinum, and nitric 

 acid, the variations of (Burch anil 

 Veley), 460. 



Ewing (J. A.) contributions to the 

 molecular theory of induced magnet- 

 ism, 342. 



Fellows deceased, 464. 

 elected, 104, 465. 



Financial statement, 477. 



Finger marks, the patterns in thumb 

 and : on their arrangement into 

 naturally distinct classes, the per- 

 manence of the vapillary ridges that 

 make them, and the resemblance of 

 their classes to ordinary genera 

 (Galtou), 455. 



Fornix and corpus callosum in the 

 marmoset monkey, on the course of 

 the fibres of the cingulum and the 

 posterior parts of the (Beevor), 271. 



Foster (G. Carev) elected an auditor, 



434. 

 Freezing and boiling points, on the 



determination of some, by means of 



the platinum thermometer (Griffiths), 



220. 



Galton (F.) the patterns in thumb and 

 finger marks : on their arrangement 

 into naturally distinct classes, the 

 permanence of the papillary ridges 

 that make them, and the resemblance 

 of their classes to ordinary genera, 

 455. 



Gardiner (Walter) elected, 104. 



admitted, 151. 



Gases, on the specific heats of, at con- 

 stant volume. Part I. Air, carbon 

 dioxide, and hydrogen (Joly), 410. 



Genital ducts and nephridia in the 

 Oligochseta, on the homology be- 

 tween (Beddard), 452. 



Germination of the seed of the castor- 

 oil plant (Ricinus communis), on the 

 (Green), 370. 



Globulin, a bacteria-killing (Hankin), 

 93. 



Government Grant of 4,OOOZ., account 

 of the appropriation of the, 486. 



Gravity, account of recent pendulum 

 operations for determining the relative 

 force of, at the Kew and the Green- 

 wich observatories (Walker), 105. 



Green (J. R.) on the germination of 

 the seed of the castor-oil plant (Rici- 

 nus communis), 370. 



Greenwich and Kew observatories, 

 account of recent pendulum opera- 

 tions for determining the relative 

 force of gravity at the (Walker), 105. 



Griffiths (E. H.) on the determination 

 of some boiling and freezing points 

 by means of the platinum thermo- 

 meter, 220. 



Gull (Sir William) obituary notice of, 



Hankin (E. H.) a bacteria-killing 

 globulin, 93. 



Harmonic analysis of tidal observations 

 of high and low water, on the 

 (Darwin), 278. 



Heape (W.) preliminary note on the 

 transplantation and growth of mam- 

 malian ova within a uterine foster- 

 mother, 457. 



Hopkinson (J.) magnetic properties of 

 alloys of nickel and iron, 1. 



magnetism and recalescence, 442. 



Horsley (V.) and C. E. Beevor, a record 

 of the results obtained by electrical 

 excitation of the so-called motor 



