PROCEEDINGS OE 



THE EOYAL SOCIETY. 



VOL. XXIV. 



( /^/No.168 





CONTENTS. 



JlfarcA 2, 1876. 



PAGE 



List of Candidates for Election into the Society 345 



I. The Organ of Corti in Mammals. By Urban Pkitchard, M.D., F.R.C.S., 

 Lecturer on Physiology (Evening Classes), King's College, London, Surgeon 



to the Royal Ear Dispensary 346 



II. Preliminary Note on the Compound Nature of the Line-Spectra of Ele- 

 mentary Bodies. By J. N. Lockyer, F.R.S 352 



III. On the Influence of Coal-dust in Colliery Explosions. By W. Galloway 354 



March 9, 1876. 



I. On the Diurnal Variations of the Disturbances of the Magnetic Declination 

 , at Lisbon. By J. Capello, Director of the Lisbon Observatory . . . . 373 

 II. On the Development of the Crustacean Embryo, and the Variations of form 

 exhibited in the Larvae of 38 Grenera of Podophthalmia. By C. Spence 



Bate, F.R.S 375 



III. On a Secular Variation in the Rainfall in connexion with the Secular Varia- 

 tion in amount of Sun-spots. By Charles Meldrum, M.A., Director 

 of the Mauritius Observatory 379 



March 16, 1876. 



I. Preliminary Reports to Professor Wyville Thomson, F.R.S., Director of 

 the Civilian Scientific Staff, on Work done on board the 'Challenger.' By 



John Murray, Naturalist to the Expedition . 387 



II. Preliminary Report to Professor Wyville Thomson, F.R.S., Director of 

 the Civilian Staff, on the true Corals dredged by H.M.S. ' Challenger,' in 

 deep water, between the dates Dec. 30th, 1870, and August 31st, 1875. 

 By H. N. Moseley, Naturalist to the Expedition 387 



III. Preliminary Report to Professor Wyville Thomson, F.R.S., Director of 



the Civilian Scientific Staff, on Observations made during the earlier part 

 of the Voyage. By tne late Dr. Rudole von Willemoes-Suhm, Natu- 

 ralist to the Expedition 387 



IV. Preliminary Report to Professor Wyville Thomson, F.R.S., Director of 



the Civilian Scientific Staff, on Crustacea observed during the Cruise of 

 H.M.S. ' Challenger ' in the Southern Sea. By the late Dr. Rudolf von 

 Willemoes-Suhm, Naturalist to the Expedition 387 



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