PROCEEDINGS OF 

 THE ROYAL SOCIETY. 



vol. xx. No. 134. 



^AOty CONTENTS. 



April 11, 1872. 



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I. Contributions to the History of the Opium Alkaloids. — Part V. By C. R. 

 A. Wright, D.Sc., Lecturer on Chemistry in St. Mary's Hospital Medical 

 School 278 



II. Researches on Solar Physics. — III. By Warren De La Rue, D.C.L., 

 F.R.S., Baleour Stewart, LL.D., F.R.S., and Benjamin Loewy, 

 F.R.A.S 289 



III. Corrective Note by Messrs. De La Rue, Stewart, and Loewy to their 



Paper " On some recent Researches in Solar Physics &c." 290 



IV. The Action of Oxygen on Copper Nitrate in a state of Tension. By J. H. 



Gladstone, Ph.D., F.R.S., and Alfred Tribe, F.C.S 290 



April 18, 1872. 



I. On the Connexion between Explosions in Collieries and Weather. By 

 Robert H. Scott, M.A., F.R.S., and William Galloway, Esq., Mining 

 Engineer 292 



II. On the Fossil Mammals of Australia. — Part VII. Genus Phascolomgs ; 



species exceeding the existing ones in size. By Prof. R. Owen, F.R.S. . 20(1 



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