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INDEX. 



Liquids, stability and instability of 



viscous (Basset), 273. 

 Liveing (GK D.) and J. Dewar, note on 



the spectra of the flumes of some 



metallic compounds, 117. 

 Loekyer (J. N.) on the photographic 



spectra of some of the brighter stars, 



32G. 



Lydall (F.) and A. W. S. Pocklington, 

 'magnetic properties of pure iron, 164, 



MacMahon (P. A.) memoir on the 

 theory of the compositions of num- 

 bers, 290. 



Magnetic and earth current pheno- 

 mena, on the relation between (Ellis), 

 191. 



properties of pure iron (Lydall and 



Pocklington), 164, 228. 



variations at different places on 



occasions of magnetic disturbance, 

 on the simultaneity of, and on the 

 relation between magnetic and earth 

 current phenomena (Ellis), 191. 



Magnetising iron, electrochemical ef- 

 fects on. Part IV (Andrews), 114. 



Marcet (W.) contribution to the history 

 of the interchange of pulmonary gases 

 in the respiration of man, 164, 213. 



Matthey (E.) further researches in con- 

 nexion with the metallurgy of bis- 

 muth, 467. 



Medals, presentation of the, 310. 



Metallic compounds, note on the spectra 

 of the flames of some (Liveing and 

 Dewar), 117. 



Metallurgy of bismuth, further re- 

 searches in connexion with the 

 (Matthey), 467. 



Meteoric stone found at Makariwa, near 

 Invercargill, New Zealand, on a 

 (Ulrich), 504. 



Miall (Louis C.) elected, 1. 



admitted, 70. 



Micro-organisms, on the characters and 

 behaviour of the wandering (migrat- 

 ing) cells of the frog, especially in 

 relation to (Kanthack and Hardy), 

 267. 



Morley (John) elected, 345. 



Muscles, note on the knee-jerk and the 

 correlation of action of antagonistic 

 (Sherrington), 556. 



Muscular tissue, action of the nitrites 

 of the paraffin series on (Cash and 

 Dunstan), 91. 



Nerves, observations upon pilo-motor 



(Langley), 547. 

 peripheral distribution of the 



fibres of the posterior roots of some 

 spinal (Sherrington), 333. 



Newton (E. T.) on some new reptiles 

 from the Elgin sandstone, 389. 



Nitrites of the paraffin series, physiolo- 

 gical action of the, considered in 

 connexion with their chemical consti- 

 tution. Part II. Action of the 

 nitrites on muscular tissue und dis- 

 cussion of results (Cash and Dun- 

 stan), 91. 



Nitrous acid, the conditions of the 

 formation and decomposition of 

 (Veley), 27. 



Noble (Capt.) preliminary note on the 

 pressure developed by some new ex- 

 plosives, 123. 



Nova Scotia, supplementary report on 

 explorations of erect trees containing 

 animal remains in the coal-formation 

 of (Dawson), 4. 



Numbers, memoir on the theory of the 

 compositions of (MacMahon), 290. 



Obituary notices of Fellows deceased : 



Bowman, Sir William, i. 



Calver, Edward Killwick, xviii. 



Hirst, Thomas Archer, xii. 



Schorlemmer, Carl, vii. 



Stainton, Henry Tibbats, ix. 

 Officers, nomination of, 283. 



election of, 315. 



Operators in physical mathematics, on. 



Part I (Heaviside), 504. 

 OrnitJiorliynchus paradoxus, the cere- 

 brum of (Hill), 163. 



Pal&monetes varians, preliminary ac- 

 count of the nephridia and body 

 cavity of the larva of (Allen), 338. 



Parker (T. Jeffery) admitted, 267. 



Peace (J. B.) on the potential difference 

 required to produce a spark between 

 two parallel plates in air at different 

 pressures, 99. 



Peach (Benjamin Neve) elected, 1. 



Pedler (Alexander) elected, 1. 



Peptone and other varieties of liquid 

 extravascular blood, on the leucocytes 

 of (Wright), 564. 



Photographic lenses at the Kew Obser- 

 vatory, on the method of examination 

 of (Darwin), 2, 403. 



spectra of some of the brighter 



stars, on the (Loekyer), 326. 



Physiological action of the nitrites of 

 the paraffin series considered in con- 

 nexion with their chemical constitu- 

 tion. Part II. Action of the nitrites 

 on muscular tissue and discussion of 

 results (Cash and Dunstan), 91. 



