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Abstract of some Results with respect to Doubly Periodic Elliptic Func- 

 tions of the Second and Third Kinds. By John Griffiths, M.A.... . 206 



March 19, 1885. 



On " Transfer-resistance " in Electrolytic and Voltaic Cells. By G. Gore, 

 LL.D., F.RS 209 



Note on Rev. Robert Harley's paper "Professor Malet's Classes of 

 Invariants identified with Sir James Cockle's Criticoids." By John 

 Malet 211 



The "Paralytic" Secretion of Saliva. By J. N. Langley, M.A., F.R.S., 

 Fellow and Lecturer of Trinity College, Cambridge 212 



March 26, 1885. 



Observations on Variations of the Electromotive Force between Metals 

 at High Temperatures in Fused Salts. By Thomas Andrews, F.R.S.E., 

 F.C.S 216 



On a Peculiar Behaviour of Glow-lamps when raised to High Incan- 

 descence. By William Henry Preece, F.R.S 219 



List of Presents 231 



No. 237— April 16, 1885. 



Note on an Experiment by Chladni. By Charles Tomlinson, F.RS. 

 (Plate 1) 247 



On the General Characters of the Genus Cymbulia. By John D. 

 Macdonald, M.D., F.R.S., Inspector-General R.N 251 



On the Agency of Water in Volcanic Eruptions ; with some Observations 

 on the Thickness of the Earth's Crust from a Geological Point of 

 View; and on the Primary Cause of Volcanic Action. By Joseph 

 Prestwich, F.R.S., Professor of Geology in the University of Oxford.... 253 



On the Fibrin-yielding Constituents of the Blood Plasma. By L. C. 

 Wooldridge, MB., D.Sc., Demonstrator of Physiology in Guy's Hos- 

 pital From the Laboratory of the Brown Institution 260 



April 23, 1885. 



Magnetisation of Iron. By John Hopkinson, M.A., D.Sc, F.R.S 265 



On the Changes produced by Magnetisation in the Length of Rods of 

 Iron, Steel, and Nickel. By Shelford Bidwell, M.A., LL.B 265 



The Essential Nature of the Colouring of Phytophagous Larvae (and 

 their Papas) ; with an Account of some Experiments upon the Relation 

 between the Colour of such Larvae and that of their Food-plants. By 

 Edward B. Poulton, M.A., of Jesus and Keble Colleges, Oxford 269 



