1875.] Library. 147 



LlBRABY. 



The following additions have been made to the Library since the 

 meeting held in June last. 



Presentations. 

 *** Names of donors in capitals. 

 Proceedings of the Royal Geographical Society. Vol. XIX, Nos. I to 

 III, 1875. 



No. II. Warren. — On the Reconnaissance of a New or partially known Country. 

 No. III. Oxenham. — The Inundations of the Yang-Tsze-Kiang. 



Royal Geographical Society of London. 



Minutes of Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers. Vol, 

 XXXIX., P. I., 1874-75. 



A. R. Binnie. — The Nagpur "Waterworks ; with observations on the Rainfall, tho 

 Flow from the ground, and Evaporation at Nagpur, and on the Fluctuation of Rainfall 

 in India and in other places. C. Stone. The Implements employed, and the Stone Pro- 

 tection adopted in the Reconstruction of the Bridges on the Delhi Railway. 



Institution op Civil Engineers, London. 

 Institution of Mechanical Engineers Proceedings for August and Oc- 

 tober, 1874. 



Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Birmingham. 



Journal of the Statistical Society. Vol. 38, p. I., 1875. 



H. Jeula. — The Mercantile Navies of the World in the years 1870 and 1874 

 compared. 



Statistical Society, London. 

 Proceedings of the Royal Society. Vol. XXIII., Nos. 159 and 160. 



No. 159. W. B. Carpenter. — Remarks on Professor Wyville Thomson's prelimi- 

 nary Notes on the Nature of the Sea-bottom, procured by the Soundings of H. M. S. 

 "Challenger." Prof. W. Thomson. Report to the- Hydrographer of the Admiralty on 

 the cruise of H. M. S. "Challenger" from July to November, 1874. J. B. N. Hennessey. 

 Some particulars of the Transit of Venus across the Sun, December 9th, 1874, observed 

 on the Himalaya Mountains, at Mussoorie. Note No. 1. J. B. N. Hennessey. Ap- 

 pendix to note, dated November 1873, on White Lines in the Solar Spectrum. T. 

 "La mler Brunton and J. Fayrer. — On the Nature and Physiological Action of the Crota- 

 /V'.s-poison as compared with that of Naja tripudians and other Indian Venomous Snakes ; 

 also 1 nvestigations into the Nature • of the Influence of Naja and Crota /«*-Poison on 

 < Siliary and Amoeboid Action, and on Vallisncria, and on the influence of Inspiration 

 of Pure Oxygen on Poisoned Animals. Prof, IF. G. Adams. On the forms of Equipo- 

 tcntial Curves and Surfaces and Lines of Electric Force. 



No. 160. /. G. Buchanan. On the Determination at Sea of the Specific Gravity 

 of Sea-Water. Copt. W. J. Heaviside, R. E. Preliminary Abstract of Approximate 

 Mean Results with the Invariable Pendulums Nos. 4 and 1841, in continuation of the 

 Al. tract published iu Vol. XIX. of the Proceedings. J. N. Zoc/.ycr and II'. <.'. Roberta. — 



