PROCEEDINGS OF 



THE ROYAL SOCIETY. 



VOL. XXVI. 



No. 181. 



CONTENTS. 



May 3, 1877. 



PAGE 



I. Further Observations on the Modification of the Excitability of Motor 



Nerves produced by Injury. By Geoege J. Eomanes, M.A., F.L.S. . . 211 



II. On the Temperature-correction and Induction-coefficients of Magnets. By 



G. M. "Whipple, B.Sc, Superintendent of Kew Observatory 218 



III. Distribution of the " Eadicals of Electrolytes upon an Insulated Metallic 



Conductor. By Alpeed Teibe, Lecturer on Chemistry in Dulwich 

 College . 222 



May 17, 1877. 



I. On Hyperjacobian Surfaces and Curves. By William Spottiswoode, 



M.A., Treas. E.S 226 



II. On the Length of the Spark from a Voltaic Battery in different Gases at 

 ordinary Atmospheric Pressures. By Waeeen De La Eee, M. A., D.C.L., 

 F.E.S., and- Hugo W. Mullee, Ph.D., E.E.S 227 



III. Further Eesearches on the Deportment and "Vital Eesistance of Putrefactive 

 and Infective Organisms, from a Physical point of view. By John Tyn- 

 dall, LL.D., F.E.S., Professor of Natural Philosophy in the Eoyal Insti- 

 tution 228 



May 31, 1877. 



I. The Physical Properties of Homologues and Isomers. By Feedeeick D. 



Beow, B.Sc 238 



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