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Mr. Stone. — On the Telescopic Observations of the Transit of Venus 1874, made 

 in the expedition of the British Government, and on the conclusions to be 

 deduced from those Observations. Mr. Eereh. — Improvements in a Solar 

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 Notes on the Mean Solar Parallax as derived from the Observations of the 

 recent Transit of Venus. 



• . Eoyal Institution of Great Britain, — Proceedings, Vol. 8, Parts 



3 and 4, Nos. QQ and 67, and a List of Members. 



No. 67. Eichard Strachey. — Physical causes of Indian Famines. Prof. Tyn- 

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Lyon. Societe de Geographic, — Bulletin, No. 9, Janvier 1878. 

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10. (New Series) Nos. 1 to 11. 

 . The Vedarthayatna, or an attempt to interpret the Vedas, — No. 



16, Pt. II, March 1878. 

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(2nd Serie) Mai et Juin 1878. 

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Leipzig. Annalen der Physik und Chemie, — Band 3, Heft 4, No. 4, Band 



4,* Heft 1, No. 5, and Band 2, Stiick 5, No. 5, 1878. 



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London. The Academy,— Nos. 315-318, 1878, 

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No. 964. Prof. Hughes. — On the action of Sonorous Vibrations in varying the 

 Force of an Electric Current. S. Kern.— Oni'h.Q Chemical and Mechanical 

 Analyses of Cast-Steels. 



No. 966. G. R. Tweedie. — A process for coating Iron with Magnetic Oxide by 

 the Action of Heated Air. Improvements in the Method of Preserving Ani- 

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