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Preliminary Report on the Results obtained with the Prismatic 

 Camera during the Eclipse of 1896. Bv J. Norman Lockyer, C.B., 

 F.R.S 271 



Meeting of November 26, 1896, with List of Officers and Council and 

 List of Papers read 272 



Mathematical Contributions to the Theory of Evolution. On Telegony 

 in Man, &c. By Karl Pearson, F.R.S., University College, with the 

 assistance of Miss Alice Lee, Bedford College, London 273 



On the Magnetic Permeability of Liquid Oxygen and Liquid Air. By 

 J. A.. Fleming, M.A., D.Sc., F.R.S., Professor of Electrical Engineer- 

 ing in University College, London, and James Dewar, LL.D., F.R.S., 

 Fullerian Professor of Chemistry in the Royal Institution 285 



No. 364. November 30, 1896. 



ANNIVERSARY MEETING. 



Report of Auditors 296 



List of Fellows deceased since last Anniversary 297 



elected 297 



Address of the President 298 



Election of Council and Officers 316 



Financial Statement 317 320 



Trust Funds 321326 



Income and Expenditure Account 327 



Table showing Progress and present State of Society with regard to 



Fellows , 328 



Account of Grants from the Donation Fund.... , 328 



Meeting of December 10, 1896, with List of Papers read 329 



On Professor Hermann's Theory of the Capillary Electrometer. By 

 George J. Burch, M.A 329 



An Attempt to determine the Adiabatic Relations of Ethyl Oxide. By 

 E. P. Perman, D.Sc., W. Ramsay, Ph.D., F.R.S., and J. Rose-limes, 

 M.A., B.Sc _ 336 



The Chemical and Physiological Reactions of certain Syiithesised Pro- 

 teid-like Substances. Preliminary Communication. By John W. 

 Pickering, D.Sc. (Loiid.) , 337 



An Experimental Examination into the Growth of the Blastoderm of 

 the Chick. By Richard Asshetoii, M.A 349 



Meeting of December 17, 1896, with List of Papers read 357 



On the Dielectric Constant of Liquid Oxygen and Liquid Air. By 

 J. A. Fleming, M.A., D.Sc., F.R.S., Professor of Electrical Engineer- 

 ing in University College, London, and James Dewar, M.A., LL.D., 

 F.R.S., Fullerian Professor of Chemistry in the Royal Institution, 

 &c.... 358 



