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THE ROYAL SOCIETY. 



Series B. Vol. 85. No. B 582. 



BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES. 



CONTENTS. 



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Studies on the Reductase of Liver and Kidney. — Part I. By DAVID 

 FRASER HARRIS, M.D.. D.Sc, F.R.S.E., Professor of Physiology and 

 Histology, and HENRY JERMAIN MAUDE CREIGHTON, M.A., M.Sc, 

 Dr.Sc, Lecturer on Physical Chemistry, Dalhousie University, Halifax, N.S. 486 



CROONIAN LECTURE— The Process of Excitation in Nerve and 



Muscle. By KEITH LUCAS 495 



The Development of a Parasite of Earth-worms. By JOHN WESTRAY 



CROPPER, M.B., M.Sc, Liverpool (Plate 14) . . . . . 525 



Notes on the Polymorphism of Trypanosoma gambiense in the Blood and its 

 Relation to the Exogenous Cycle in Glossina palpalis. By Miss 

 MURIEL ROBERTSON 527 



Further Contribution to the Study of the Inheritance of Hoariness in Stocks 

 (Mattholia). By EDITH R. SAUNDERS, Lecturer and late Fellow, 

 Newnham College, Cambridge ........ 54<> 



The Influence of Temperature on the Absorption of Water by Seeds of 

 Hordeum vulgare in Relation to the Temperature Coefficient of Chemical 

 Change. By ADRIAN J. BROWN. F.R.S., and F. P. WORLEY, M.A., 

 M.Sc, New Zealand 54<* 



Some Observations on Trypanosoma pecorum (Bruce) and T. uniforme 



(Bruce), By H. L. DUKE 554 



Note on Merlia normani and the " Monticuliporas." By R. KIRKPATRICK 562 



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October 11, 1912. 



