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November 30, 1880. 

 Anniversary Meeting. 



Page 



Eeport of Auditors 73 



List of Fellows deceased since last Anniversary 73 



elected 74 



Address of the President 74 



Presentation of the Medals 95 



Election of Council and Officers 101 



Financial Statement : 103-105 



Trust Funds 106-109 



Account of Grants from the Donation Fund in 1879-80 110 



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

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

 employed in aiding the advancement of Science 110 



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 Eoyal Society Ill 



Eeport of the Kew Committee 115 



List of Presents 138 



No. 208.— December 9, 1880. 



On a Simplified Form of the Torsion-Gravimeters of Broun and Babinet. 

 By Major J. Herschel, E.E., F.E.S., Deputy Superintendent, Great 

 Trigonometrical Survey of India 141 



Note on the Microscopic Examination of some Fossil Wood from the 

 Mackenzie Eiver. By C. Schroter, Assistant at the Botanical Labora- 

 tory of the Polytechnic Institution, Zurich 147 



The Electrostatic Capacity of Glass. By J. Hopkinson, M.A., D.Sc, 

 F.E.S 148 



The Cochlea of the Ornithorhynchus platypus compared with that of 

 ordinary Mammals and of Birds. By Urban Pritchard, M.D., F.E.C.S., 

 Aural Surgeon of King's College Hospital 149 



December 16, 1880. 



On Actinometrical Observations made in India at Mussooree and Dehra 

 in October and November, 1879. By J. B. N. Hennessey, F.E.S., 

 Deputy Superintendent, Great Trigonometrical Survey of India 154 



On the Critical Point. By William Eamsay, Ph.D., Professor of 

 Chemistry in University College, Bristol 194 



