CONTENTS. 



ARTICLE PAGE 



I. — Observations of Comet I. 1861. By Joseph Baxendell, Esq., 



F.R.A.S I 



II. — On the Irregular Barometric Oscillations at Geneva and on the 

 Great St. Bernard, and their relations to the Mean Tem- 

 perature and the Fall of Rain. By G. V. Vernon, Esq., 



E.E.A.S., M.B.M.S 5 



III. — Additional Observations on the Permian Beds of South Lanca- 

 shire. By E. W. BiNNEY, y.P., E.E.S., F.G.S 29 



IV. — On Putrefaction in Blood, By Dr. R. Angus Smith, F.R.S., &c. 47 

 V. — On certain Scales of some Diurnal Lepidoptera. By John 



Watson, Esq. 63 



VI. — On the Tongues of MoUusca, By Thomas Alcock, M.D 71 



VII. — On the Influence of the Seasons upon the Rate of Decrease of 

 the Temperature of the Atmosphere with Increase of Height, 

 in different Latitudes in Europe and Asia. By Joseph 



Baxendell, Esq., F.R.A.S 82 



VIII. — On the Direction of the Wind at Manchester, during the years 

 i849-i86i,at 8** a.m. By G.V.Vernon, Esq., F.R.A.S., 



M.B.M.S 99 



IX. — Note on a Differential Equation. By A. Cayley, Esq., M.A., 



F.R.S., Honorary Member of the Society 1 11 



X. — On some Amalgams. By J. P. Joule, LL.D., F.R.S., &c 115 



XI. — On the Convective Equilibrium of Temperature in the Atmo- 

 sphere. By Prof. Wm. Thomson, M.A., LL.D., F.R.S., &c. 125 

 XII. — On the Relations between the Decrement of Temperature on 

 ascending in the Atmosphere, and other Meteorological 



Elements. By Joseph Baxendell, Esq., F.R.A.S 132 



XIIL— Memoir of the late Eaton Hodgkinson, F.R.S., F.G.S., M.R.I.A., 

 Hon. Mem. R.I.B.A., Inst. C.E., Roy. Scot. Soc. Arts, and 

 Soc. Civ. Eng. Paris, Prof, of the Mech. Princ. of Engineering, 

 University College, London. By Robert Rawson, Esq., 

 Honorary Member of the Society 145 



