PROCEEDINGS 



OF 



THE ROYAL SOCIETY. 



1848. No. 71. 



April 6, 1848. 



The MARQUIS OF NORTHAMPTON, President, in the Chair. 



*' Determinations of the Magnetic Inclination and Force in the 

 British Provinces of Nova Scotia and New Brunswick in the 

 summer of 1847." By Professor George W. Keely, of Waterville 

 College, Maine, United States. Communicated by Lieut. -Col. Sa- 

 bine, R.A., For. Sec. R.S. 



The observations recorded in this paper are of two kinds ; first, 

 those for the relative total force, which were made with a pair of 

 Lloyd needles and an inclination-circle, seven inches in diameter, with 

 two verniers reading to single minutes ; and secondly, those for the 

 absolute horizontal force made with a unifilar magnetometer. • After 

 a detailed description of these instruments, the results of the ob- 

 servations are given, occupying several pages of tables. 



April 13, 1848. 



The MARQUIS OF NORTHAMPTON, President, in the Chair. 



*' Minute structure of the Organ of Taste in Vertebrate Animals." 

 Part I. By Augustus Waller, M.D. Communicated by Richard 

 Owen, Esq., F.R.S. 



The author states that, in 1839, his attention was first directed to 

 the organ of taste on discovering the peculiar advantages for micro- 

 scopic examination which are offered by the tongue of the living 

 frog. When prepared in the manner he describes, it is much more 

 transparent than the web of the foot; and its papillte, mucous mem- 

 brane, blood-vessels, nerves, muscular fibres, &c. may all be examined 

 during life. 



He subsequently found that, contrary to the opinion of anatomists, 



