CONTENTS — {continued) . 



January 25, 1872. 



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

 Bombay, and its Secular and Annual Yariations. By Chaeles Cham- 

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



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

 mistry at Westminster Hospital 4 107 



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

 ber's Salt. By Chaeles ToiiLLysox, F.E.S 109 



List of Presents 112 



Some Remarks on the Mechanism of Respiration. By F. Le G-eos Claee:, 

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

 Examiners of the Royal College of Surgeons, and late Hunterian Professor 

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

 University of London. Read May 25, 1871 122 



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