CONTENTS. Vll. 



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 Weiss, Prof. F. E., B.Sc— On the stem of the Melon 16 



On some specimens of Ramalina reticulata and Phallus impudicus 



recently added to the Manchester Museum... ... ... ... 172 



Wilde, Henry, F.R.S. — On the Multiple Proportions of the Atomic 

 Weights of Elementary Substances in relation to the Unit of 

 Hydrogen ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... 13 



Letter to the Society offering an Endowment ... ... ... ... 92 



The details of the Agreement with the Council on the employment of 

 the income from the Wilde endowment ... ... ... ... 137 



On argon and helium ... ... ... ... ... ... ...176 



General Meetings 9, 66, 137, 165, 174, 206 



Annual General Meeting 177 



Report of the Council, with Obituary Notices of the Marquis de Saporta, 

 August Kundt, Jean Charles Gillisard de Marignac, Sir James 

 Cockle, Julius Lothar Meyer, Hermann Ludgwig Ferdinand von 

 Helmholtz, Wilhelm Roscher, Arthur Cayley, and Thomas 

 Penyngton Kirkman ... ... ... ... ... ... ... 207 



Treasurer's Accounts ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... 244 



Meetings of the Microscopical and Natural History Section : — 



Annual 191 



Ordinary ... 15, 16, 17, 118, 133, 171 



Annual Report of the Microscopical and Natural History Section ... 247 



List of the Council and Members 249 



PLATES, &c. to face 



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I. — To illustrate Mr. Wilde's paper on "The Magnetometer" ... 6 



II. — To illustrate Mr. Hick's paper on " Kaloxylon Hookeri and 



Lyginodendron Oldhamium" ... ... ... ... ...117 



III. — To illustrate Mr. Hick's paper on "The Structure of the Leaves of 



Catamites" ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... 190 



IV., V., VI. — To illustrate Mr. Brockbank's paper on " Glacier 



Moraines" 195, 200, 201 



