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The Myology of the Cheiroptera. By A. Macalister, A.B., M.B.T.C.D., 

 Professor of Zoology, University of Dublin 94 



Notice of further Researches on the Fossil Plants of the Coal-measures. 

 By Prof. W. C. Williamson, F.R.S., in a Letter to Dr. Sharpey, Sec. R.S. 95 



January 18, 1872. 



Investigations of the Currents in the Strait of Gibraltar, made in August 

 1871, by Captain G. S. Nares, R.N., of H.M.S. < Shearwater,' under In- 

 structions from Admiral Richards, F.R.S., Hydrographer of the Admiralty 97 



January 25, 1872. 



The Absolute Direction and Intensity of the Earth's Magnetic Force at 

 Bombay, and its Secular and Annual Variations. By Charles Chambers, 

 F.R.S., Superintendent of the Colaba Observatory 107 



On the Elimination of Alcohol. By A. Dupre, Ph.D., Lecturer on Che- 

 mistry at Westminster Hospital 107 



On the Action of Low Temperatures on Supersaturated Solutions of Glau- 

 ber's Salt. By Charles Tomlinson, F.R.S 109 



List of Presents 112 



Some Remarks on the Mechanism of Respiration. By F. Le Gros Clark, 

 Surgeon to St. Thomas's Hospital, Member of Council and of the Court 

 of Examiners of the Royal College of Surgeons, and late Hunterian Pro- 

 fessor of Surgery and Pathology in the College, and Examiner in Surgery 

 at the University of London 122 



v No. 132.— February 1, 1872. 



On the Lunar Variations of Magnetic Declination at Bombay. By Charles 

 Chambers, F.R.S., Superintendent of the Colaba Observatory 135 



Note on a possible Ultra-Solar Spectroscopic Phenomenon. By C. Piazzi 

 Smyth, F.R.S., Astronomer Royal for Scotland 136 



On the Normal Paraffins. By C. Schorlemmer, F.R.S 137 



Note on the Eclipse of the Sun (Dec. 1871) as observed at Sholoor. By 

 M. Janssen 138 



February 8, 1872. 



A Letter from His Majesty the Emperor of Brazil, addressed to General 

 Sir Edward Sabine, K.C.B 139 



Experiments concerning the Evolution of Life from Lifeless Matter. By 

 Walter Noel Hartley, F.C.S., Demonstrator of Chemistry, King's Col- 

 lege, London 140 



Experiments on the directive power of large Steel Magnets, of Bars of Mag- 

 netized Soft Iron, and of Galvanic Coils, in their action on external small 

 Magnets. By George Biddell Airy, Astronomer Royal, C.B., P.R.S. — 

 With Appendix containing an Investigation of the Attraction of a Gal- 

 vanic Coil on a small magnetic mass. By James Stuart, Esq., M.A., 

 Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge 158 



