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Professor of Comparative Anatomy in the Medical College of Bengal, 

 and A. Alcock, M.B., Surgeon, I.M.S., Surgeon-Naturalist to the 

 Survey 202 



On some of the Variations observed in the Eabbit's Liver under certain 

 Physiological and Pathological Circumstances. By T. Lauder Brunton, 

 M.D., B.Sc., F.E.S., and Sheridan Delepine, M.B., B.Sc 209 



On the Electromotive Phenomena of the Mammalian Heart. By "W. M. 

 Bayliss, B.A., B.Sc., and Ernest H. Starling, M.D., M.E.C.P., Joint 

 Lecturer on Physiology at Guy's Hospital. (From the Physiological 

 Laboratory, University College, London) 211 



List of Presents 214 



November 30, 1891. 

 ANNIVERSARY MEETING. 



Eeport of Auditors 218 



List of Fellows deceased since last Anniversary 219 



elected 219 



Address of the President , 219 



Election of Council and Officers 231 



Financial Statement 233 236 



Trust Funds 237241 



Table showing Progress and present State of Society with regard to 

 Fellows 242 



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

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

 employed in aiding the Advancement of Science 242 



Account of Grants from the Donation Fund 246 



No. 304. December 10, 1891. 



On a Compensated Air Thermometer. By H. L. Callendar, M.A., 

 Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge 247 



Note on the Necessity of using "Well- Annealed and Homogeneous Glass 

 for the Mirrors of Telescopes. By A. A. Common, LL.D., F.E.S 252 



On some of the Properties of Water and of Steam. By William Eamsay, 

 F.E.S., Professor of Chemistry in University College, London, and 

 Sydney Young, Professor of Chemistry in University College, Bristol 254 



On Hindoo Astronomy. By W. Brennand 254 



Eepulsion and Eotation produced by Alternating Electric Currents. 

 By G. T. Walker, B.A., B.Sc., Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge 255 



List of Presents ,.. 257 



December 17, 1891. 



The " Ginger-beer Plant," and the Organisms composing it : a Contri- 

 bution to the Study of Fermentation-yeasts and Bacteria. By H. 

 Marshall Ward, M.A., F.E.S., F.L.S., Professor of Botany at the 

 Forestry School, Eoyal Indian Engineering College, Cooper's Hill .... 261 



