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Anniversary Meeting : 



Report of Auditors 163 



List of Fellows deceased 163 



elected since last Anniversar}^ 163 



Address of the President : 164 



Presentation of the Medals 174 



Election of Council and Officers 180 



Financial Statement 181 & 182 



Changes and present state of the number of Fellows 183 



Observations on the Anatomy of the Thyroid Body in Man. By George W. 

 Callender, Lecturer on Anatomy at St. Bartholomew's Hospital 183 



On some Alterations in the Composition of Oarbonate-of-Lime Waters, de- 

 pending on the influence of Vegetation, Animal-Life, and Season. By 

 Robert Warington, F.R.S., F.C.S 189 



Results of Observations of Atmospheric Electricity at Kew Observatory, 

 and at Windsor, Nova Scotia. By Joseph D. Everett, D.C.L.^ F.R.S.E'. 195 



On the Orders and Genera of Quadratic Forms containing more than three 

 Indeterminates. By H. J. Stephen Smith, M.A., F.R.S., Savilian Pro- 

 fessor of Geometry in the University of Oxford. — Second Notice ^ 197 



On the Special Action of the Pancreas on Fat and Starch. By Horace 

 Dobell, M.D. &c., Physician to the Royal Hospital for Diseases of the 

 Chest &c 209 



On a supposed Connexion between the Amount of Rainfall and the Changes 

 of the Moon, being an extract of a Letter from J. H. N. Hennessey, Esq., 

 First Assistant on the Great Trigonometrical Survey of India, to General 

 Sabine, R.A., Pres. R.S 213 



Researches conducted for the Medical Department of the Privy Council at 

 the Pathological Laboratory of St. Thomas's Hospital. By J. L. W. 

 Thudichum, M.D 215 



The Bakerian Lecture. — Researches on Vanadium. — Part 1. By Henry E. 

 Roscoe, B.A., F.R.S ^ . . 220 



On the Conditions for the existence of Three Equal Roots, or of Two Pairs 

 of Equal Roots of a Binary Quartic or Quintic. By A. Cayle}^, F.R.S . . 229 



The Caudal Heart of the Eel a Lymphatic Heart. — Effect of the force with 

 which the lymph-stream is propelled therefrom on the flow of blood in 

 the Vein into which the heart opens. — Explanation of the appearance of 

 blood propelled in successive drops, as if from the heart, along the Caudal 

 Vein. — Influence which the force of the lymph-stream from the heart 

 exerts in accelerating and promoting the flow of blood in the Caudal 

 Vein. By Thomas Wharton Jones, F.R.S., Professor of Ophthalmic Me- 

 dicine and Surgery in University College, London, Ophthalmic Surgeon 

 to the Hospital, &c 230 



Notices of some Parts of the Surface of the Moon, illustrated by Drawings. 

 By John Phillips, M.A., D.C.L., F.R.S., F.G.S., Professor of Geology in 

 the University of Oxford 231 



