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X. On certain Definite Integrals. No. 5. By W. H. L. Russell, F.R.S. 361 

 XI. On the Normal Paraffins. Part III. By C. Schorlemmier, F.R.S. , 



Professor of Organic Chemistry in Owens College, Manchester . .361 

 XI L The Gfeometric Mean, in Vital and Social Statistics. By ^ Francis 



Gtalton, F.R;S .365 



XIII. The Law of the Greometric Mean. By Donald MoAlister, B.Sc., 



Fellow of St. John's College, Cambridge 367 



XIV. Note. By Mr. Chambers 376 



November 27, 1879. 



I. On the Structure of Serous Gflands in Rest and Activity. By J. X. 



Langley, M.A., Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge . . . 377 

 II. On the Changes in Pepsin-forming Gflands during Secretion. By J. X. 

 Langley, M.A., Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge, and H. Sewall, 

 B.Sc, Fellow of the Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, U.S.A. . 383 



III. Report on Phyto-Paljeontological Investigations on the Fossil Flora of 



Sheppey. By Dr. Constantin Baron Ettingshausen, Professor 



in the University of: Gfraz, Austria 388 



IV. A Memoir on the Single and Double Theta-Functions. By A. Cayley, 



F.R.S., Sadlerian Professor of Pure Mathematics in the University of 



Cambridge 397 



V. On the Spectra of Sodium and Potassium. By Gf. D. Liveing, M.A., 

 F.R.S., Professor of Chemistry, and J. Dewar, M.A., F.R.S., Jack- 



sonian Professor, University of Cambridge 398 



VI. On the Reversal of the Lines of Metallic Vapours. No. VII. By Gf. 

 D. Liveing, M.A., F.R.S., Professor of Chemistry, and J. Dewar, 

 M.A., F.R.S., Jacksonian Professor, University of Cambridge . . 402 



ANNIVERSARY MEETINGf. 

 Report of Auditors ............ 4o6 



List of Fellows deceased since last Anniversary ...... 406 



elected 407 



Address of the President . • . . . 407 



Presentation of the Medals . . . . . . . . . 429 



Election of Council and Officers ......... 431 



Financial Statement 433 — 435 



Trust Funds 436—139 



Account of Gfrants from the Donation Fund in 1878-79 . . . . .410 

 Account of the appropriation of the sum of £1,000 (the Gfovernment Gfrant) 

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



aiding the advancement of Science . 4J.0 



Account of appropriations from the Government Fund of £1,000 made by the 

 Lords of the Committee of Council on Education, on the recommendation 

 of the Council of the Royal Society ........ 442 



Report of the Kew Committee . 445 



List of Presents 405 



