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No. 236.— February 5, 1885. 



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The Eelation of Bacteria to Asiatic Cholera. By E. Klein, M.D., F.E.S., ' 

 Joint Lecturer on General Anatomy and Physiology at the Medical 



School of St. Bartholomew's Hospital, London 154 



February 12, 1885. 



Note on the Condensation of Gases at the Surface of Glass. (Preliminary.) 

 By J. T. Bottomley, M.A., F.K.S.E 158 



On Underground Temperatures, with Observations on the Conductivity 

 of Eocks, on the Thermal Effects of Saturation and Imbibition, and 

 on a special Source of Heat in Mountain Eanges. By Joseph Prest- 



wich, M.A., F.E.S., Professor of Geology in the University of Oxford 161 



On the Connexion between Electric Current and the Electric and Mag- 

 netic Inductions in the surrounding Field. By J. H. Poynting, M.A., 

 late Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge, Professor of Physics, Mason 

 College, Birmingham 168 



February 19, 1885. 



On the Structure of Hyaline Cartilage. By George Thin, M.D 173 



Note on a preliminary Comparison between the Dates of Cyclonic Storms 

 in Great Britain and those of Magnetic Disturbances at the Kew 

 Observatory. By Balfour Stewart, M.A., LL.D., F.E.S., and Wm. Lant 

 Carpenter, *B. A., B.Sc 174 



February 26, 1885. 



On a remarkable Phenomenon of Crystalline Eeflection. By G. G. Stokes, 

 M.A., Sec. E.S., Lucasian Professor of Mathematics in the Univer- 

 sity of Cambridge 174 



March 5, 1885. 



List of Candidates for Election 186 



On the Extraction of Uric Acid Crystals from the Green Gland of Astacus 

 fluviatilis. By A. B. Griffiths, Ph.D., F.C.S., Lecturer on Chemistry 

 and Physics, Technical College, Manchester 187 



On the Atomic Weight of Glucinum (Beryllium). Second Paper. By T. 

 S. Humpidge, Ph.D., B.Sc, Professor of Chemistry in the University 

 College of Wales, Aberystwith 188 



March 12, 1885. 



The Absorption Spectra of the Alkaloids. Part II. By W. N. Hartley, 

 F.E.S., Professor of Chemistry, Eoyal College of Science, Dublin 191 



Contributions towards the Solution of the Chemical Constitute « of I sit in. 

 By H. Kolbe L93 



