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On the Specific Heat and other physical characters of Mixtures of Methylic 

 Alcohol and Water, and on certain relations existing between the Specific 

 Heat of a Mixture or Solution and the Heat evolved or absorbed in its 

 formation. By A. Dupre, Ph.D., Lecturer on Chemistry at the West- 

 minster Hospital 336 



On Supersaturated Saline Solutions. Part HI. — On a relation between the 

 Surface-tension of Liquids and the Supersaturation of Saline Solutions. 

 By Charles Tomlinson, F.R.S., and G. Van der Mensbrugghe 342 



Remarks on the Sense of Sight in Birds, accompanied by a description of 

 the Eye, and particularly of the Ciliary Muscle, in three species of the . 

 Order Rapaces. By Robert James Lee, M.A., M.D 351 



Supplement, containing a Description of the Eye in Rhea americana, Phceni- 

 copterus antiquorum, and Aptenodytes Humboldtii 358 



May 30, 1872. 



The Bakerian Lecture. — On the Structure and Development of the Skull 

 of the Salmon (Salmo solar, L.). By William Kitchen Parker, F.R.S. . 360 



On Ammonia in the Urine in Health and Disease. By C. Meymott Tidy, 

 M.B., Joint Lecturer on Chemistry and Medical Jurisprudence at the 

 London Hospital ; and W. Bathurst Woodman, M.D., Joint Lecturer on 

 Physiology, and Assistant-Physician to the London Hospital 362 



Examination of the Gases occluded in Meteoric Iron from Augusta Co., 

 Virginia. By J. W. Mallet, Ph.D., M.D., Professor of Analytical and 



Applied Chemistry, University of Virginia 365 



On the Structure and Function of the Rods of the Cochlea in Man and other 

 Mammals. By Urban Pritchard, M.D 370 



Addition to Lieut. -Col. A. Strange's paper "On a new Great Theodolite to 

 be used on the Great Trigonometrical Survey of India, with a short Note 

 on the performance of a Zenith-Sector employed on the same work " . . . . 372 



List of Presents 375 



No. 136.— June 6, 1872. 

 Election of Fellows 379 



June 13, 1872. 



On the Spectrum of the Great Nebula in Orion, and on the Motions of some 

 Stars towards or from the Earth. By William Huggins, LL.D., D.C.L., 

 F.R.S 379 



On Blood-relationship. By Francis Galton, F.R.S 394 



Further Experiments on the Effect of Alcohol and Exercise on the Elimina- 

 tion of Nitrogen and on the Pulse and Temperature of the Body. Bv 

 E. A. Parkes, M.D., F.R.S . 402 



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

 September, and October, 1871, in H.M. Surveying-Ship ' Shearwater.' 

 By William B. Carpenter, LL.D., M.D., F.R.S. . . 414 



