PROCEEDINGS OF 

 THE ROYAL SOCIETY. 



YOL. XXXI. 



CONTENTS. 



March 3, 1881. 



PAGE 



List of Candidates for Election ......... 485 



I. Some Experiments on Metallic Reflexion. No. II. By Sir John 



Coneoy, Bart., M.A .... 486 



II. On the Trichophyton tonsurans (the Eungus of Ringworm). By G-eoege 



Thin, M.D 501 



III. On Bacterium decalvans : an Organism associated with the Destruction 



of the Hair in Alopecia areata. By G-eoege Thin, M.D. . . . 502 



IT. On the Absorption of Pigment by Bacteria, By G-eoege Thin, M.D. . 503 



V. On Toroidal Functions. By W. M. Hicks, M.A., St, John's CoUege, 



Cambridge . . . . : . . . . . 504 



YI. Microscopical Researches in High Power Definition. Preliminary Note 

 on the Beaded "Villi of Lepicloptera- Scales as seen with a Power of 

 3,000 Diameters. By Dr. Royston-Pigott, F.R.S. . . . . 505 



March 10, 1881. 



I. On the Conversion of Radiant Energy into Sonorous Yibrations. By 



"William Heney Peeece 506 



II. On the Limit of the Liquid State. By J. B. Hannay, E.R.S.E. . . 520 



III. On the Diastase of Koji. By R, W. Atkinson, B.Sc. (Lond.), Pro- 

 fessor of Analytical and Applied Chemistry in the University of Tokio, 

 Japan . . . . . . ■ . . . . 523 



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