CONTENTS {continued). 



January 21, 1886. 



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I. Family Likeness in Stature. By Feancis G-alton, F.E.S. With an 

 Appendix by J. D. Hamilton Dickson, Fellow and Tutor of St. 

 Peter's College, Cambridge ......... 42 



II. The Early Development of Julus terrestris. By F. Gr. Heathcote, 



M.A., Trin. Coll., Cam . 73 



III. On Eadiant Matter Spectroscopy : Note on the Spectra of Erbia. By 



William Ceookes, F.B.S 77 



IV. On the Clark Cell as a Standard of Electromotive Force. By the Lord 



Kayleigh, M.A., D.C.L., Sec. E.S. . . . . . . .79 



V. Account of a new Volcanic Island in the Pacific Ocean. By Wileeed 



Eowell, H.B.M. Consul in Samoa. In a letter to the Hydrographer 



of the Admiralty 81 



January 28, 1886. 



I. On Local Magnetic Disturbance in Islands situated far from a Continent. 

 By Staff- Commander E. W. Ceeae, E.N., F.E.S., of the Admiralty 

 Compass Department .83 



II. Description of some Eemains of the Gigantic Land-Lizard (Megalania 



prisca, Owen) from Queensland, Australia, including Sacrum and 

 Foot-Bones. Part IY. By Sir Eichaed Owen, K.C.B., F.E.S., &c. . 93 



III. On the Development of the Cranial Nerves of the Newt. By Alice 



Johnson, Demonstrator of Biology, Newnham College, Cambridge, 



and Lilian Sheldon, Bathurst Student, Newnham College, Cambridge 94 



List of Presents ....... .... 96 



On the Changes produced by Magnetisation in the Length of Eods of 



Iron, Steel, and Nickel. By Shelfoed Bidwell, M.A., LL.B. . . 109 



Obituary Notice : — 



Captain Sir Feedeeick J. O. Evans, E.N., K.C.B. . . . ~ . i 



HAEEISON AND SONS, 45 & 46, ST. MAETIN'S LANE, W.C., 



AND ALL BOOKSELLEES. 



