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On Supersaturated Saline Solutions. By Archibald Liversidge, Assoc. R.S. 

 Mines, and Scholar of Christ's College, Cambridge 497 



Note relating to the Attraction of Spheroids. By L Todhunter, M.A., 

 F.R.S. ..? . . 507 



Report on the Exploration of Brixham Cave, conducted by a Committee 

 of the Geological Society, and under the immediate superintendence and 

 record of Win, Pengelly, Esq., F.R.S., aided by a Local Committee ; 

 with Descriptions of the Organic Remains by G. Busk, Esq., F.R.S., and 

 of the Flint Implements by John Evans, Esq., F.R.S. By J. Prestwich, 

 F.R.S., F.G.S., &c, Reporter 514 



Approximate Geometrical Solutions of the Problems of the Duplication of 

 the Cube and of the Quadrature of the Circle. By William Hayden . . 525 



List of Presents 527 



No. 138.— June 13, 1872 (continued). 



Report on Scientific Researches carried on during the Months of August, 

 September, and October, 1871, in H.M. SurYeying-ship 'Shearwater.' 

 By William B. Carpenter, LL.D., M.D., F.R.S 535 



Index 645 



Obituary Notices of Fellows deceased : 



James Yates i 



George Grote iii 



Dr. Augustus Waller xi 



The Rev. William Venables Yernon Harcourt xiii 



Sir John Frederick William Herschel, Bart xvii 



William Baird xxiii 



Wilhelm Karl Ritter v. Haidinger xxv 



Heinrich Gustav Magnus xxvii 



Sir Roderick Impey Murchison, Bart xxx 



Colonel William Henry Sykes xxxiii 



