PROCEEDINGS OF 

 THE ROYAL SOCIETY. 



vol. xliv. I <?3 No. 268. 



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CONTENTS. 



May 3, 1888. 



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List of Candidates 147 



I. On the Induction of Electric Currents in conducting Shells of small 

 Thickness. By S. H. Bttebtjry, M.A., formerly Fellow of St. John's 

 College, Cambridge 147 



II. Oh the Eelations of the Diurnal Barometric Maxima to certain critical 

 Conditions of Temperature, Cloud, and Rainfall. By Henry F. 

 Blanpord, F.R.S 150 



III. Effect of Chlorine on the Electromotive Force of a Voltaic Couple. By 



G. Gore, F.R.S . .... 151 



IV. Electro-chemical Effects on Magnetising Iron. Part II. By Thomas 



Andrews, F.R.S.E., F.C.S 152 



V. Report on the Capacities, in respect of Light and Photographic Action, of 

 two Silver on Glass Mirrors of different Focal Lengths. By the Rev. 

 C. Peitchabd, D.D., F.R.S., Savilian Professor of Astronomy, Oxford 168 



VI. On the Development of Voltaic Electricity by Atmospheric Oxidation. By 

 C. R. Alder. Wrig-ht, D.Sc, F.R.S., Lecturer on Chemistry and 

 Physics, and C. Thompson, F.I.C., F.C.S., Demonstrator of Chemistry 

 in St. Mary's Hospital Medical School 182 



List of Presents 200 



May 17, 1888. 



I. On the Electromotive Properties of the Leaf of Dioncea in the Excited 

 and Unexcited State. No. II. By J. Bttrdon Sanderson, M.A., 

 M.D., F.R.S., Professor of Physiology in the University of Oxford . 202 



II. Magnetic Qualities of Nickel. By J. A. Ewing, F.R.S., Professor of 



Engineering, University College, Dundee, and G. C: Cowan . . 204 



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