PROCEEDINGS OE 



THE ROYAL SOCIETY. 



VOL. XXI. 



No. 145. 



CONTENTS. 



PA&E 



Further Observations on the Temperature at which Bacteria, Vibriones, 

 and their Supposed Germs are killed when exposed to Heat in a moist 



state ; and on the Causes of Putrefaction and .Fermentation. By H. 

 Charlton Bastian, M.A., M.D., F.R.S., Professor of Pathological 

 Anatomy in University College, London. (Read May 1) ...... 325 



May 29, 1873. 



The Croonian Lecture. — On Muscular Irritability after Systemic Death. 

 By Benjamin Ward Richardson, M.D., F.R.S 339 



June 12, 1873. 



Election of Fellows 348 



June 19, 1873. 



I. Experiments on the Development of Bacteria in Organic Infusions. By 

 C. C. Pode, M.B., Demonstrator to the Regius Professor of Medicine, 

 and E. Ray Lankester, M.A., Fellow and Lecturer of Exeter College . 349 



II. On the Nature and Physiological Action of the Poison of Naja tripu- 

 dians and other Indian Venomous Snakes. — Part I. By T. Ladder 

 Brunton, M.D., Sc.D., M.R.C.P., and J. Fatrer, C.S.I., M.D., 



F.R.C.P. Lond., F.R.S.E., Surgeon-Major Bengal Army 358 



III. Observations on the Effects of Exercise on the Temperature and Circula- 



tion. By C. Handfield Jones, M.B. Cantab., F.R.S 374 



IV. On a newly discovered extinct Mammal from Patagonia (Homalodo- 



therium Cunningliami) . By William Henry Flower, F.R.S., 

 Hunterian Professor of Comparative Anatomy, and Conservator of the 

 Museum of the Royal College of Surgeons 383 



V. On the Mathematical Expression of Observations of Complex Periodical 

 Phenomena, and on Planetary Influence on the Earth's Magnetism. By 

 Charles Chambers, F.R.S., and F. Chambers 384 



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