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On the effects produced by Poisonous Fish on the Human Frame. 

 By Sir William Burnett, M.D. K.C.H., Vice-President of the 

 Royal Society .page 609 



Further Researches on the Nervous System of the Uterus. Bv 

 Robert Lee, M.D. F.R.S., Fellow of the Royal College of Physi- 

 cians 609 



History of the Mace given to the Royal Society by King Charles the 

 Second. By Charles Richard Weld, Esq., Barrister at Law, As- 

 sistant Secretary and Librarian to the Royal Society 611 



On the Anatomy and Physiology of the Vascular Fringes in Joints, 

 and the Sheaths of Tendons. By George Rainey, Esq. M.R.C.S... 621 



Description of a Process for extracting the Palladium which exists in 

 combination with the Gold of the Gongosocho and other Mines 

 in the Brazils. By Percival N. Johnson, Esq., in a letter to the 

 President 00 622 



Contributions to Terrestrial Magnetism. — No. VH. By Lieut. -Co-- 

 ionel Sabine, R.A. For. Sec. R.S 622 



An Account of the desquamation and change of colour in a Negro of 

 Upper Guinea, West Africa. By the Rev. Thomas S. Savage, 

 M.D., Corr. Member of the Boston Natural History Society, &c... 623 



On the Physiology of the Human Voice. By John Bishop, Esq. 

 F.R.S 624 



The Electric Fluid. By W. F. Stevenson, Esq. F.R.S 625 



Observations of the Heights of the Thermometer and Barometer 

 made at Lenham Lodge, near JMaidstone, Kent, during the first 

 nine days of the month of June 1846. By George Hunsley Field- 

 ing, M.D. F.R.S 625 



On the relative dynamic value of the Degrees of the Compass ; and 

 on the Cause of the Needle resting in the Magnetic Meridian. By 

 Sir Graves C. Haughton, K.H. M.A. F.R.S.,'^ Foreign Associate of 

 the Institute of France 626 



Remarks on the Extractive Material of Urine, and on the Excretion 

 of Sulphur and Phosphorus by the Kidneys in an unoxidized state. 

 By Edmund Ronalds, Ph.D., Giessen 626 



On some peculiarities of Foetal Digestion. By George Robinson, 

 M.D..... 626 



Extracts of Letters from Captain Williams, first Assistant to the Com- 

 missioner of Arracan, and from Ensign Haukeu and Mr. Howe, 

 Marine Assistant Commissioner, giving details of a curious pheno- 

 menon seen at sea off Kyook Phyoo 627 



On the Fossil Remains of the soft parts of Foraminifera discovered in 

 the Chalk and Flint of the South-east of England. By Gideon Al- 

 gernon Mantell, Esq. LL.D. F.R.S 627 



Microscopic Observations on the so-called Vesicular Vapours of Water 

 as existing in the Vapours of Steam, and in Clouds, &c. By A. 

 Waller, M.D 628 



Experiments relative to Animal Temperature, showing that there must 

 be some source of animal heat besides the combustion of the Carbon 

 and the Hydrogen contained in the Food of Animals. By Robert 

 Rigg, Esq. F.R.S , 628 



