11 JUL 90 



TRANSACTIONS 



OF THE 



ROYAL SOCIETY OF EDINBURGH. 



VOL. XXXV. PART II.— (Nos. 8 to 18)— FOR SESSIONS 1887-88 & 1888-89. 



CONTENTS. 



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No. VIII. Histological Observation* on the Muscular Fibre and Connective Tissue of the 

 Uterus during Pregnancy and the Puerperium. By T. Arthur Hblmb, M.B. 

 (With a Plate), ........ 359 



IX. On some Relations between Magnetism and Twist in Iron and Nickel. Part I. 

 By Cargill G. Knott, D.Sc. (Edin.), F.R.S.E., Professor of Physics, Imperial 

 University, Tokyo, Japan, . . . . . . .377 



X. On the Fossil Plants in the Raven head Collection in the Free Library and 

 Museum, Liverpool. By Robert Kidston, F.R.S.E., F.G.S. (Plates I. 

 and II.), ......... 391 



XI. On some Fossil Plants from Teilia Quarry, Gwaenysgor, near Prestatyn, Flint- 

 shire. By Robert Kidston, F.R.S.E., F.G.S. (With Two Plates), . 419 

 XII. On the Behaviour of the Hydrates and. Carbonates of the Alkali-Metals, and of 

 Barium, at High Temperatures, and on the Properties of Lithia and the 

 Atomic Weight of Lithium. By Professor W. Dittmar, . . . 429 



XIII. On the Determination of the Cur re, on one of the Coordinate Planes, which forms 



the Outer Limit of the Positions of the Point of Contact of an Ellipsoid of 

 Revolution which always touches the Three Planes of Reference. By G. Plarr, 

 Docteur es-Sciences, . . . . . . .471 



XIV. On Ostracoda collected by H. B. Brady, Esq., LL.D., F.R.S., in the South Sea 



Islands. By George Stewardson Brady, M.D., LL.D., F.R.S. (Plates 



I.-IV), 489 



XV. On Benzyl Phosphines and their Derivatives. By Professor Letts and R. F. 



Blake, Esq., Queen's College, Belfast. (With a Plate), . . . 527 



XVI. On the Anatomy, Histology, and Affinities of Phreoryctes. By Frank E. 

 Beddard, M.A., Prosector to the Zoological Society of London, Lecturer on 

 Biology at the Medical School of Guy's Hospital. (With a Plate), . . 629 



XVII. On the Placentation of Halicore Dugong. By Sir Wm. Turner, M.B., LL.D., 

 D.C.L., F.R.SS.L. and E., Professor of Anatomy in the University of 

 Edinburgh. (Plates I., II., III.), ...... 641 



XVIII. Non-Alternate ± Knots, of Orders Eight and Nine. By C. 1ST. Little, of 



Nebraska State University. (With a Plate), .... 663 



(Issued 10th March 1890). 



