PEOCEEDINGS OF 

 THE ROYAL SOCIETY. 



VOL. XXXH. No. 214. 



CONTENTS 



June 3, 1881. \ \ 



Qr\ %\ PAG-E 



Annual Meeting for Election of Fellows . X^n.- . /firf • .332 



June 16, 1881. 



I. On the Differences in the Physiological Effects produced by the Poisons 

 of certain species of Indian Venomous Snakes. By A. J. Wall, 

 M.D. (Lond.), Surgeon H.M. Indian Army 333 



II. On Pendent Drops. By A. M. Worthington, M.A 362 



III. Postscript to the Chronological Summary of Methods of Computing 



Logarithms in my Paper on the Potential Badix. By Alexander 



J. Ellis, B.A., E.B.S., F.S.A. 377 



IV. Note on the Spectrum of Carbonic Acid. By Charles Wesendonck 



(Berlin) , . .380 



V. The Wave of Translation and the "Work it does as the Carrier Waye of 



Sound. By John Scott Etjssell, E.E.S 382 



VI. On the Effect of Electrical Stimulation of the Frog's Heart, and its 

 Modification by Cold, Heat, and the Action of Drugs. By T. 

 Lauder Brunton, M.D., F.E.S. , and Theodore Cash, M.D. . . 383 



VII. On the Action of Ammonia and its Salts, and of Hydrocyanic Acid 

 upon Muscle and Nerve. By T. Lauder Brunton, M.D., E.E.S. , 

 and Theodore Cash, M.D . . . 384 



VIII. On Stratified Discharges. VI. Shadows of Striae. By William 



Spottiswoode, President E.S., and J. Fletcher Moulton, F.E.S. 385 



IX. On Stratified Discharges. VII. Multiple Eadiations from the 

 Negative Terminal. By William Spottiswoode, P.E.S., and 

 J. Fletcher Moulton, F.E.S 388 



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