INDEX. 



595 



Donation fund, account of grants from the, 



1875-76, 370. 

 Doran (A. H. Gr.) on the comparative 



anatomy of the auditory ossicles of the 



Mammalia, 101. 

 Dowdeswell (G. F.) on the behaviour of 



the fixed elements of the connective 



tissue of the tongue in inflammation, 



272, 390. 



, on the changes of the fixed corpus- 

 cles of the cornea in the process of in- 

 flammation, 492. 



Drops of liquids, on the forms assumed 

 by, 261 ; 2nd paper, 498. 



Duncan (P. M.) on some Thallophytes 

 parasitic within recent Madreporaria, 

 17, 238. 



on the corals of the 'Valorous' 



cruise, 1875, 223. 

 Dunkin (E.), admitted, 92, 



Earth's axis of rotation, on the influence 

 of geological changes on the, 328. 



magnetic force, on the influence of 



height in the atmosphere on the diurnal 

 variation of the, 566. 



Election of Council, 363. 



of FeUows, 92. 



Electric current, on the increase in resist- 

 ance to the passage of an, produced on 

 wires by stretching, 451. 



Electricity, on contact, between non-con- 

 ductors, 169. 



, on Volta's experiment of the, pro- 

 duced by the contact and separation of 

 different metals, 258. 



Electrolysis, on electrical conductivity 

 and, in chemical compoimds, 322. 



Electromotive properties of muscle, note 

 on the, 435. 



Equation, on a new form of tangential, 

 564. 



Equations and functions, on Olairautian, 

 43. 



Erichsen (J. E.), admitted, 92. 



Eryfhrophleum guinense, on the physiolo- 

 gical action of the bark of, 172. 



Etheridge (R.) on the pebbles and min- 

 erals dredged during the ' Valorous ' 

 cruise, 1875, 229. 



Excitability of motor nerves, on the mo- 

 dification of the, produced by injury, 8. 



Falkland Islands to Monte Video &c., 

 report to the Hydrographer of the Ad- 

 miralty on the Voyage of the ' Chal- 

 lenger ' from the, 92. 



Fatigue, on the law of, 131. 



Fayrer (Sir J.) and Brunton (T. L.) on 

 independent pulsation of the pulmonary 

 veins and vena cava, 174. 



Fellows deceased, 338 ; elected, 92, 338 ; 

 number of, 363. 



Fermentation, on the physico-chemical 



theory of, and on the conditions favour- 

 ing archiebosis in previously boiled 

 fluids, 149. 



Ferrier (D.), admitted, 92. 



Financial statement, 364, 365. 



FitzGerald (a. F.) on the rotation of 

 the plane of polarization of light by re- 

 flection from the pole of a magnet, 

 447. _ 



Foraminifera of the 'Valorous' cruise, 

 1875, 223. 



Force, on Crookes's, 553. 



Fossil plants of the Coal-measures, on the 

 organization of the : Part VIII. Ferns 

 (continued) and Gymnospermous stems 

 and seeds, 68. 



Fran9ois de Chaumont (F. S. B.) on the 

 theory of ventilation, 1. 



Frankland (E.) on organo-boron com- 

 pounds, 165. 



on the transport of solid and liquid 



particles in sewer gases, 542. 



Froude (W.), Eoyal medal awarded to, 

 360. 



Fimctions and equations, on Clairautian, 

 43. 



Garrod (A. H.), admitted, 92. 



Gaskell (W. H.), preliminary notice of in- 

 vestigations on the action of the vaso- 

 motor nerves of striated muscle, 439. 



Greological changes, on the influence of, 

 on the earth's axis of rotation, 328. 



Germicide, on heat as a, when discon- 

 tinuously applied, 569. 



Gimingham (C. H.) on a new form of the 

 Sprengel air-pump and vacuum-tap, 

 396. 



Glasses, dielectric properties of various, 

 496. 



Gordon (J. E. H.), determination of Ver- 

 det's constant in absolute units: 1st 

 and 2nd memoirs, 144. 



Government grant, account of appropria- 

 tion of the, 1876, 369. 



Grenfell (J. G.) on supersaturated saline 

 solutions, 124. 



Groves (C. E.) and Stenhouse (J.) on pi- 

 crorocellin, 60. 



Giinther (A.), description of the living and 

 extinct races of gigantic land-tortoises : 

 Parts III. and IV. The races of the 

 Aldabra group and Mascarene Islands, 

 506. 



Hansen (P. A.), obituary notice of, v. 



Haughton (S.) on some elementarj- prin- 

 ciples in animal mechanics : No, VIII. 

 The law of fatigue, 131. 



Hay ward (R. B.), admitted, 92. 



Heat as a germicide when discontinuously 

 applied, 569. 



, on the effect of, on the chloride, bro- 

 mide, and iodide of silver, 4, 280. 



