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Appendix III.— The Influence of Oxygen upon the Anaesthetic Effect 

 of Chloroform. By F. W. Hewitt, M.A., M.D., 

 and A. D. Waller, M.D., F.R.S 278 



The Dissociation of Oxy-Hremoglobin at High Altitudes.- Report of the 

 Committee, consisting of Professor E. H. Starling (Chairman), 

 Mr. J. Barcroft (Secretary), and Dr. W. B. Hardy 280 



Electromotive Phenomena in Plants.— Report of the Committee, consist- 

 ing of Dr. A. D. Waller (Chairman), Mrs. Waller (Secretary), 

 Professors F. Gotch, J. B. Farmer, and Veley, and Dr. F. O'B. 

 Ellison. (Drawn up by Dr. A. D. Waller) 281 



Appendix.— On the Blaze Currents of Laurel Leaves in relation to 

 their Evolution of Prussic Acid. By Mrs. A. M. 

 Waller 288 



The Effect of Climate upon Health and Diseass. - Fourth Report of the 

 Committee, consisting of Sir Lauder Brunton (Chairman), Mr. J. 

 Barcroft and Lieut. -Colonel R. J. S. Simpson (Secretaries), Colonel 

 Sir D. Bruce, Dr. S. G. Campbell, Sir Kendal Franks, Professor 

 J. G. McKendrtck, Sir A. Mitchell, Dr. C F. K. Murray, Dr. C. 

 Porter, Dr. J. L. Todd, Professor G. Sims Woodhead, and the Heads 

 of the Schools of Tropical Medicine of Liverpool, London, and 

 Edinburgh 290 



Mental and Muscular Fatigue. — Interim Report of the Committee, con- 

 sisting of Professor C. S. Sherrington (Chairman), Mr. W. 

 MacDougall (Secretary), Professor J. S. MacDonald, and Mr. H. 

 Sackville Lawson 292 



Interim Report on Muscular Fatigue. June 1909. By Professor 

 J. S. MacDonald 292 



Interim Report (No. 2). — Mental Fatigue in Schools. June 1910. 

 By Mr. H. Sackville Lawson 295 



Body Metabolism in Cancer. — Report of the Committee, consisting of 

 Professor C. S. Sherrington (Chairman) and Dr. S. M. Copeman 

 (Secretary) 297 



The Experimental Study of Heredity. — Report of the < lommittee, con- 

 sisting of Mr. Francis Darwin (Chairman), Mr. A. G. Tansley 

 (Secretary), and Professors Bateson and Keeble 300 



Clare Island. — Report of thte Committee, consisting of Professor T. 

 Johnson (Chairman), Mr. R. Lloyd Praeger (Secretary), Professor 

 Grenville Cole, Dr. Schakit, and Mr. A. G. Tansley, appointed to 

 arrange a Botanical, Zoological, and Geological Survey of Clare 

 Island 301 



