PROCEEDINGS OF 

 THE ROYAL SOCIETY. 



VOL, XLIII. No. 261. 



,<^Y PAGE 



CONTENTS. 



December 8, 1887. 



"A ~On &&®bne in .Cvi^oailia which is commonly regarded as the Os Pubis, 

 \ancLijtjs j^jjsfc^Qjrfative among the Extinct Keptilia By H. Gr. Seeley, 

 ^rft»S.7-Pfofessor of Geography in King's College, London . . 235 



II. The Post-embryonic Development of Julus terrestris. By F. Gr. Heath- 

 cote, M.A 243 



III. On the Sexual Cells and the early Stages in the Development of Millepora 

 plicata. By Sydney J. Hickson, M.A. Cantab, D.Sc. Lond., Fellow 

 of Downing College, Cambridge 245 



IY. On Photometry of the GTow Lamp. By Captain Abney, E.E., F.E.S., 



and Major- G-eneral Festing, E.E., F.R.S 247 



Y. On the Detonating Bolide of November 20th, 1887. By Gf. J. Symons, 



F.E.S . . . . . . . 263 



List of Presents 264 



December 15, 1887. 



I. Note on the Development of Feeble Currents by purely Physical Action, 

 and on the Oxidation under Voltaic Influences of Metals not ordinarily 

 regarded as spontaneously oxidisable. By C. E. Alder Weight, D.Sc, 

 F.E.S. , Lecturer on Chemistry and Physics, and C. Thompson, F.C.S., 

 F.I.C., Demonstrator of Chemistry in St. Mary's Hospital Medical 



School . 268 



II. The Early Development of the Pericardium, Diaphragm, and Great Yeins. 

 By C. B. Lockwood, F.E.C.S., Hunterian Professor of Anatomy in the 

 Eoyal-College of Surgeons of England 273 



III. An Investigation into the Function of the Occipital and Temporal Lobes 

 of the Monkey's Brain. By Sanger Brown, M.D., and E. A. 

 Schaper, F.E.S., Jodrell Professor of Physiology in University College, 

 London ....... 276 



List of Presents 276 



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