PROCEEDINGS OF 



THE ROYAL SOCIETY. 



TOL. XV. No. 88. 



CONTENTS. 



PAGE 



December 6, 1866. 



1. Discussion of Tide- Observations at Bristol. By T. G-. Bunt, Esq. . . 289 



II, On the Heating of a Disk by rapid Eotation in vacuo. By Balpour 

 Stewart, M.A., F.R.S., and P. a. Tait, M.A. (Continuation of a 

 Paper read before the Eoyal Society on June 15, 1865, and pubhshed 

 in the ' Proceedings ') 290 



III. On the Bones of Birds at different Periods of their G-rowth. By John 



Davy, M.D., F.E.S., &c 299 



December 13, 1866. 

 I. On Poisson's Solution of the Accurate Equations applicable to the Trans- 

 mission of Soxmd through a Cylindrical Tube ; and on the General 

 Solution of Partial Differential Equations. By E. Moon, M.A., late 

 FeUow of Queen's College, Cambridge 306 



II. Abstract of the Eesults of the Comparisons of the Standards of Length of 

 England, France, Belgium, Prussia, Eussia, India, Australia, made at 

 the Ordnance Survey Office, Southampton.. By Capt. A. E. Clieke, 

 E.E., F.E.S., &c., under the Direction of Colonel Sir Henet James, 

 E.E., F.E.S., &c., Director of the Ordnance Survey 311 



December 20, 1866. 

 I. On the Formation of " Cells " in Animal Bodies. By E. Montgomeey, 



M.D 314 



II. Preliminary Notice of Eesults of Pendulum Experiments made in India. 



By Lieut.'Col. Walkee, F.E.S 318 



Obituary Notices of Fellows Deceased : 



John Geoeoe Appold i 



Geoege Boole vi 



Samuel Huntee Cheistie xi 



Hugh Falconee xiv 



Vice- Admiral Eobeet FitzEoy xxi 



Benjamin Gompeetz ixiii 



Sir Benjamin Heywood xxiv 



Sir William Jackson Hookee xxv 



John Lindley xxx 



Sir John William Lubbock . xxxii 



Sir John Eichaedson xxxvii 



Admiral William Heney Smyth xliii 



Johann Franz Encke xliv 



Adolf Theodoe von Kupffee xlvi 



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