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Till. Experiments on Carbon at high Temperatures and under great Pressures, 

 and in contact with other Substances. By the Hon. Charles A. 

 Parsons . . . . 320 



List of Presents 328 



June 21, 1888. 



I. Further Researches on the Physiology of the Invertebrata. By A. B. 

 Griffiths, Ph.D., F.R.S. (Edin.), F.C.S. (Lond. and Paris), Prin- 

 cipal and Lecturer on Chemistry and Biology, School of Science, 

 Lincoln ; Member of the Physico- Chemical Society of St. Petersburg 325 



II. Muscular Movements in Man, and their Evolution in the Infant : a 

 Study of Movement in Man, and its Evolution, together with 

 Inferences as to the Properties of Nerve-centres and their Modes of 

 Action in expressing Thought. By Francis Warner, M.D., 

 F.R.C.P., Physician to the London Hospital, and Lect urer on Botany 

 in the London Hospital Medical College 329 



III. On the Electromotive Changes connected with the Beat of the Mamma- 



lian Heart, and of the Human Heart in particular. By Augustus 



D. Waller, M.D 331 



IV. On the Plasticity of G-laeier and other lee. By James C. McConnel, 



M.A., Fellow of Clare College, Cambridge, and Dudley A. Kidd . 331 



V. On the Organisation of the Fossil Plants of the Coal-measures. 

 Part XV. By W. C. Williamson, LL.D., F.R.S., Professor of 

 Botany in the Owens College, Manchester 367 



VI. Effects of different Positive Metals, &c., upon the Changes of Potential 



of Voltaic Couples. By G-. Gore, F.K.S 368 



VII. Magnetic Qualities of Nickel (Supplementary Paper). By J. A. 

 Ewing, F.R.S., Professor of Engineering in University College, 



Dundee 377 



VIII. Evaporation and Dissociation. Part VIII. A Study of the Thermal 

 Properties of Propyl Alcohol. By William Ramsay, Ph.D., F.R.S., 

 and Sydney Young, D.Sc. . 378 



IX. Contributions to the Chemistry of Chlorophyll. No. III. By Edward 



Schunck, F.R.S 378 



X. On the Specific Resistance of Mercury. By R. T. Glazebrook, M.A., 

 F.R.S., Fellow of Trinity College, and T. C. Fitzpatrick, B.A., 

 Fellow of Christ's College, Demonstrators in the Cavendish Labora- 

 tory, Cambridge 379 



XI. Researches on the Structure, Organisation, and Classification of the 

 Fossil Reptilia. VI. On the Anomodont Reptilia and their Allies. 

 By H. G. Seeley, F.R.S . 381 



XII. A new Form of Eudiometer. By William Maecet, M.D., F.R.S. 



(Plate 14) 383 



XIII. Theorems in Analytical Geometry. By W. H. L. Russell, F.R.S. . 388 



IV. On the Determination of the Photometric Intensity of the Coronal 

 Light during the Solar Eclipse of August 28-29, 1886. Preliminary 

 Notice. By Captain W. de W. Abney, C.B,, R.E., F.R.S., and 

 T. E. Thorpe, Ph.D., F.R.S. ........ 392 



XV. Seismometric Measurements of the Vibration of the New Tay Bridge 

 during the passing of Railway Trains. By J. A. Ewing, B.Sc, 

 F.R.S., Professor of Engineering in University College, Dundee . 394 



List of Presents 403 



Obituary Notice : — 



Thomas Blizard Curling . . . xxv 



