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On the Mechanism of the Cardiac Valves : a Preliminary Communication. By 

 A. F. Stanley Kent, M.A. Oxon., Henry Overton Wills Professor of Physiology 



in the University of Bristol. Communicated by Prof. C. S. Sherrington, F.E.S. 



(Plate 16) 537 



The Effect of Functional Activity upon the Metabolism, Blood-flow, and Exudation 



in Organs. By J. Bavcroft, F.R.S., and Toyojiro Kato 541 



Functional (Edema in Frog's Muscle. By M. Back, K. M. Cogan, and A. E. Towers. 



Communicated by J. Barcroft, F.R.S 544 



No. B 608.— June 1, 1915. 



The Effect of the Depth of Pulmonary Ventilation on the Oxygen in the Venous 



Blood of Man. By J. F. Twort and Leonard Hill, F.R.S 548 



On the Occurrence of an Intracranial Ganglion upon the Oculomotor Nerve in 

 Scyllium canicula, with a Suggestion as tp its Bearing upon the Question of the 

 Segmental Value of Certain of the Cranial Nerves. By Geo. E. Nicholls, D.Sc, 

 Beit Memorial Fellow (Zoological Department, King's College, London). Com- 

 municated by Prof. A. Dendy, F.R.S 553 



The Osmotic Balance of Skeletal Muscle. By Dorothy Jordan Lloyd. Communi- 

 cated by W. B. Hardy, F.R.S 568 



Surface Tension and Ferment Action. By E. Beard and W. Cramer. Communi- 

 cated by Sir Edward Schafer, F.R.S 575 



Surface Tension as a Factor Controlling Cell Metabolism. By W. Cramer. Com- 

 municated by Sir Edward Schafer, F.R.S 584 



OBITUARY NOTICES OF FELLOWS DECEASED. 



Arthur Lister i 



A. C. L. G. Gtinther (with portrait) xi 



Walter Holbrook Gaskell xxvii 



Joseph Reynolds Green xxxvi 



Index xxxix 



