94 



Messrs. Gamgee and Priestley. 



[Feb. 14, 



S 10 oo= 7*48547 08605 50344 91265 65182 04333 90017 65216 79169 70880 

 36657 73626 74995 76993 49165 20244 09599 34437 41184 50813 

 96798 01438 22544 03715 81484 21958 84703 40431 40398 43368 

 92966 39178 33827 35905 57913 00071 54692 68403 25933 79804 

 87809 56515 86955 67800 24804 71415 08712 32350 00711 42865 

 21027 95267 06455 



Log* 1000= 6 -90775 52789 82137 05205 39743 64053 09262 28033 04465 88631 

 89280 99983 70290 27178 29032 05744 07079 91615 26879 48950 

 25903 35212 68587 45900 22857 63952 48420 26999 88621 07296 

 34506 84487 21624 97666 40425 31399 68447 86995 95585 18051 

 59268 96133 19788 65384 90098 66686 30946 59660 23963 10024 

 23212 72982 31056 



E= -57721 56649 01532 86060 65120 90082 40243 10421 59335 93992 

 35988 05767 23488 48677 26777 66467 09369 47063 29174 67495 

 14631 44724 98070 82480 96050 40144 86542 83622 41739 97644 

 92353 62535 00333 74293 73377 37673 94279 25952 58247 09491 

 60087 35203 94816 56708 53233 15177 66115 28621 19950 15079 

 84793 74508 56961 



It will be seen that the two values found for E agree to 263 places 

 of decimals, which supplies another independent verification of the 

 value obtained for log e 2. 



February 14, 1878. 



Sir JOSEPH HOOKER, K.C.S.I., President, in the Chair. 



The Eight Hon. William Henry Smith and the Right Hon. Sir 

 William Henry Gregory, whose certificates had been suspended as 

 required by the Statutes, were balloted for and elected Fellows of the 

 Society. 



The Presents received were laid on the table and thanks ordered for 

 them. 



The following Papers were read : — 



I. " Concerning the Effects on the Heart of Alternate Stimula- 

 tion of the Vagi." By Arthur Gamgee, M.D., F.R.S., 

 Brackenbury Professor of Physiology in Owens College, 

 and John Priestley, Assistant Lecturer in Physiology in 

 Owens College. Received December 15, 1877. 



In 1869, A. B. Meyer* observed that it was impossible to stop the 

 heart in dogs and rabbits continuously by stimulation of the vagus 



* A. B. Meyer "Das Hemmungsnervensystem des Herzens." (Abstract by 

 Schiffer, " Centralblatt," 1869, No. 14, p. 216.) 



