CONTENTS. 

 VOL. LVIII. 



No. 347. 



Page 



A Research into the Elasticity of the Living Brain and the Conditions 

 Governing the Recovery of the Brain after Compression for short 

 Periods. By A. G. Levy, M.B. (London) 1 



On the Temperature of the Carbons of the Electric Arc ; with a Note 

 on the Temperature of the Sun. Experiments made at Daramona, 

 Streete, Co. Westmeath. By W. E. Wilson, M.R.T.A., and P. L. 

 Gray, B.Sc., A.R.C.S 24 



No. 348. 



The Stresses and Strains in Isotropic Elastic Solid Elh'psoids in Equi- 

 librium under Bodily Forces derivable from a Potential of the Second 

 Degree. By C. Chree, M.A., Fellow of King's College, Cambridge, 

 Superintendent of Kew Observatory 39 



Micro-Metallography of Iron. Part I. By Thomas Andrews, F.R.S., 

 M.Inst.C.E.... 59 



April 25, 1895. 



On a Gas showing the Spectrum of Helium, the reputed cause of D 3 , 

 one of the Lines in the Coronal Spectrum. Preliminary Note. By 

 William Ramsay, F.R.S., Professor of Chemistry, University College, 

 London... ... 65 



On the new Gas obtained from Uraninite. Preliminary Note. By J. 

 Norman Lockyer, C.B., F.R.S 67 



Acokanthera Schimperi : its Natural History, Chemistry, and Pharma- 

 cology. By Thomas R. Fraser, M.D., LL.D., F.R.S., Professor of 

 Materia Medica in the University of Edinburgh; and Joseph Tillie, 

 M.D., F.R.S.E., Lecturer on Experimental Pharmacology in the Uni- 

 versity of Edinburgh 70 



The Development of Asterina gibbosa. By E. W. MacBride, B.A., 

 Demonstrator of Animal Morphology to the University of Cambridge. 

 [Title only.] 74 



List of Presents 74 



