November 30. 1677. 



Anniversary Meeting : — 



Report of Auditors 426 



List of Fellows deceased since last A nni versary 427 



elected 427 



Address of the President 427 



Presentation of the Medals 446 



Election of Council and Officers 451 



Number of Fellows 451 



Financial Statement 452 



Trust Funds 454-456 



Account of Grants from the Donation Fund in 1876-77 457 



Account of the appropriation of the sum of £1000 (the Government Grant) 

 annually voted by Parliament to the Royal Society, to be employed, in 

 aiding the advancement of Science 457 



Account of appropriations from the Government Fund of £4000 made by 

 the Lords of the Committee of Council on Education, on the recommen- 

 dation of the Council of the Royal Society 458 



Report of the Kew Committee 461 



List of Presents 479 



December 6, 1877. 



On the Tides at Malta. By Sir G. B. Airy, K.C.B., Astronomer Royal . . 485 



Observations on Hernieticallv-sealed Flasks opened on the Alps. In a Letter 

 to Professor Huxley, Sec. E.S. By Professor Tyndall, LL.D.. F.R.S. . . 4S7 



Researches on the Effect of Light upon Bacteria and other Organisms, By 

 Arthur Downes. M.D.. S.Sc. Cert. Cantab., and Thos. P.^Blunt. M.A. 

 (Oxon.), F.C.S 488 



Points of Resemblance between the Suprarenal Bodies of the Horse and Dog, 

 aud certain occasional Structures in the Ovary. By Charles Creighton, 

 M.B., Demonstrator of Anatomy, Cambridge L'niversity 500 



December 13, 1877. 



On Electrostriction. By Edmund J. Mills, D.Sc., F.RS., " Young " Pro- 

 fessor of Technical Chemistry in Anderson's College, Glasgow 504 



The Examination of Air. By R. Angus Smith, Ph.D., F.R.S 512 



On a Cause for the Appearance of Bright Lines in the Spectra of Irresolvable 

 Star-Clusters. By E. J. Stone. M.^A. F.E.S.. Her Majesty's Astronomer. 

 Cape of Good Hope 517 



Experimental Researches on the Electric Discharge with the Chloride-of- 

 Silver Batterv.— ^art I. Bv TVarren De La Rue, MA, D.C.L., F.ILS., 

 and Hugo W. Muller, Ph.D.", F.R.S 519 



