PROCEEDINGS 



OF 



THE ROYAL SOCIETY. 



May 1, 1884. 

 THE PRESIDENT in the Chair. 



The Presents received were laid on the table, and thanks ordered for 

 them. 



Professor Luigi Crenjoha, of Rome, Foreign Member, was admitted 

 into the Society. 



In pursuance of the Statutes, the names of the Candidates recom- 

 mended for election into the Society were read from the Chair, as 

 follows : 



Allman, Professor George John- 

 ston, LL.D. 



Balfour, Prof. Isaac Bayley, D.Sc. 



Baxendell, Joseph, F.R.A.S. 



Bell, James, F.I.C. 



Hartley, Professor Walter Noel, 

 F.R.S.E. 



Herschel, Professor Alexander 

 Stewart, M.A. 



Hudleston, Wilfrid H., M.A. 



Lamb, Professor Horace, M.A. 

 McKendrick, Prof. John G., M.D. 

 Ransome, Arthur, M.D. 

 Roy, Prof. Charles Smart, M.D. 

 Riicker, Professor Arthur William , 



M.A. 



Thomson, Joseph John, M.A. 

 Warren, Colonel Sir Charles, 



C.M.G. 

 Watson, Professor Morrison, M.D. 



The following Papers were read : 



I. ' ; On the Cortical Connexions of the Optic Nerves." By 

 D. J. HAMILTON, M.B., F.R.S.E., Professor of Pathological 

 Anatomy (Sir Erasmus Wilson Chair) in Aberdeen Univer- 

 sity. Communicated by Professor J. S. BuRDON SANDERSON, 

 F.R.S. Received April 17, 1884. 



(Abstract.) 



1. The original statement made by Gratiolet that the optic tract is 

 directly connected with every part of the cerebral hemisphere in 

 man, from the frontal to the occipital region, is almost literally true. 



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