CONTENTS (continued), 



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IV. Note on the Bright Lines in the Spectra of Stars and Nebulae. By J. 



NORMAN LOCKYER, F.R.S . . .50 



V. On the relative "Facility of Production" of Chemical Combinations. By 



Sir B. C. Brodie, Bart,, D.C.L., F.R.S. (Plate 4) 51 



January 31, 1878. 



I. Further Researches on the Minute Structure of the Thyroid Grland. Pre- 

 liminary Communication. By E. Cresswell Bauer, M.B. Lond. . 56 



II. On Stratified Discharges. V. Discharge from a Condenser of Large Ca- 

 pacity. By William Spottiswoode, M.A., LL.D., Treas. and V.P.R.S. 60 



III. On the Expression of the Product of any two Legendre's Coefficients by 



means of a Series of Legendre's Coefficients. By Professor J. C. Adams, 

 M.A., F.R.S 63 



IV. Experiments on the Colours shown by thin liquid Films under the Action 



of Sonorous Vibrations. By Sedley Taylor, M.A., late Fellow of 

 Trinity College, Cambridge. (Plates 5 and 6) . . . .71 



'February 7, 1878. 



I. On the Comparison of the Standard Barometers of the Royal Observatory, 



Greenwich, and the Kew Observatory, By Gh M. Whipple, B.Sc, 

 Superintendent of the Kew Observatory . . . . . .76 



II. On the Diurnal Range of the Magnetic Declination as recorded at the 



Trevandrum Observatory. By Baleour Stewart, LL.D., F.R.S., Pro- 

 fessor of Natural Philosophy at Owens College, Manchester . . 81 



III. Note on the Value of Euler's Constant ; likewise on the Values of the Na- 

 pierian Logarithms of 2, 3, 5, 7, and 10, and of the Modulus of common 

 Logarithms, all carried to 260 places of Decimals. By Professor J. C. 

 Adams, M.A., F.R.S 88 



February 14, 1878. 



I. Concerning the Effects on the Heart of Alternate Stimulation of the Vagi. 

 By Arthur G-amgee, M.D., F.R.S. , Braekenbury Professor of Physio- 

 logy in Owens College, and John Priestley, Assistant Lecturer in 

 Physiology in Owens College ......... 94 



II. On Schulze's Mode of Intercepting the Grerminal Matter of the Air. By 

 John Tyndall, F.R.S., Professor of Natural Philosophy in the Royal 

 Institution . . . . . . . . . . . . 99 



III. Experimental Contribution to the Etiology of Infectious Diseases with 

 special reference to the Doctrine of Contagium vivum. Dy E. Klein, 

 M.D., F.R.S .... 101 



IV. On the Use of the Reflection Grratirig in Eclipse Photography. By J. 



Norman Lockyer, F.R.S. .107 



