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Address of the President 407 



Presentation of the Medals 429 



Election of Council and Officers 431 



Financial Statement 433-435 



Trust Funds 436-439 



Account of Grants from the Donation Fund in 1878-79 440 



Account of the Appropriation of the sum of £'1,000 (the Government 

 Grant) annually voted by Parliament to the Royal Society, to be 

 employed in aiding the advancement of Science 440 



Account of Appropriations from the Government Fund of £4,000 made 

 by the Lords of the Committee of Council on Education, on the recom- 

 mendation of the Council of the Royal Society 442 



Report of the Kew Committee 445 



List of Presents 465 



No. 199.— December 11, 1879. 



Thermo-Electric Behaviour of Aqueous Solutions with Mercurial Elec- 

 trodes. By G. Gore, LL.D., F.R.S 472 



Quantitative Spectroscopic Experiments. By Professor G. D. Liveing, 

 M.A., F.R.S., and Professor James Dewar, M.A., F.R.S 482 



Further Experiments on the Vapour Densities of Potassium and Sodium. 

 By Professor James Dewar, M.A., F.R.S., and Alexander Scott, B.A.... 490 



On the Practical Solution of the Most General Problems in Continuous 



Beams. By John Perry and W. E. Ayrton 493 



List of Presents , 506 



Index 511 



Obituary Notices : — 



Dr. Peyton Blakiston , i 



William Froude ii 



Baron John Benjamin Heath vi 



Professor Kelland < vii 



Sir Thomas Larcom x 



Sir John George Shaw-Lefevre xv 



Sir Thomas Maclear xviii 



Mr. Anthony Mervyn Reeve Story-Maskelyne xx 



Sir James Matheson xxi 



John Miers xxii 



Charles Murchison xxiii 



Arthur Hay, Marquis of Tweeddale xxv 



John Waterhouse xxvii 



Ernst Heinrich Weber xxviii 



Bennet Woodcroft xxxii 



