1879.] 



On the Structure of Serous Glands. 



377 



November 27, 1879. 



THE PRESIDENT in the Chair. 



In pursuance of the Statutes, notice was given from the Chair of 

 the ensuing Anniversary Meeting, and the list of Officers and Council 

 nominated for election was read as follows : — 



President— William Spottiswoode, M.A., D.C.L., LL.D. 

 Treasurer. — John Evans, D.C.L., LL.D. 



a , . f Professor George Gabriel Stokes, M.A., D.C.L., LL.D. 

 Secretaries. — < ° 



L Professor Thomas Henry Huxley, LL.D. 



Foreign Secretary. — Professor Alexander W. Williamson, Ph.D., LL.D. 



Other Members of the Council. — George Busk, Y.P.L.S. ; Professor 

 Arthur Cayley, LL.D. ; Major- General Henry Clerk, R.A. ; Edwin 

 Dunkin, F.R.A.S. ; Augustus G. Vernon Harcourt, F.C.S. ; Sir 

 Joseph Dalton Hooker, C.B., K.C.S.I. ; John Whitaker Hulke, 

 F.R.C.S. ; Lieut.-General Sir J. Henry Lefroy, C.B. ; William New- 

 march, Inst. Fr. Corr. ; Professor Alfred Newton, M.A., V.P.Z.S. ; 

 Professor William Odling, M.B., Y.P.C.S. ; Sir James Paget, Bart., 

 D.C.L. ; William Henry Perkin, Sec. C.S. ; Charles William Siemens, 

 D.C.L. ; John Simon, C.B., D.C.L. ; Professor John Tyndall, D.C.L., 

 LL.D. 



The Presents received were laid on the table, and thanks ordered for 

 them. 



The following Papers were read : — 



I. " On the Structure of Serous Glands in Rest and Activity." 

 By J. N. Langley, M.A., Fellow of Trinity College, Cam- 

 bridge. Communicated by Professor Michael Foster, 

 M.D., F.R.S. Received October 13, 1879. 



The Parotid Gland of the Rabbit. 



In young animals portions of this gland are sufficiently thin to allow 

 them to be viewed by transmitted light in their normal state. 



With care the gland of a narcotised animal can be stretched out and 

 looked at without injury to the blood circulation. The rapid capillary 

 current continues for many hours shooting around and between the 

 alveoli. Stimulation of the sympathetic nerve in the neck, besides 



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