INDEX to VOL. XXVII. 



ABNEY (W. de W.) on the photometry 

 of the magneto-electric light, 157. 



, the acceleration of oxidation cansed 



by the least refrangible end of the 

 spectrum, 291. Note II, 451. 



Adams (J. C), note on the value of 

 Euler's constant ; likewise on the 

 values of the Napierian logarithms of 

 2, 3, 5, 7, and 10, and of the modulus 

 of common logarithms, all carried to 

 260 places of decimals, 88. 



, on the expression of the product 



of any two Legendre's coefficients by 

 means of a series of Legendre's co- 

 efficients, 63. 



Air, on Schulze's mode of intercepting 

 the germinal matter of the (Tyndall), 

 99. 



Anemometer (cup), on the determina- 

 tion of the constants of the, by ex- 

 periments with a whirling machine 

 (Eobinson), 286. 



Annual Meeting for the election of 

 Fellows, June 6, 1878, 447. 



Apes,ontheplacentation of the (Turner), 

 271. 



Arctic sea-water and ice, observations 



on (Moss), 446, 544. 

 Astrophiura permira, an echinoderm 



form intermediate between Ophiur- 



oidea and Asteroidea (Sladen), 456. 

 Aurelia aurita, observations on the 



nervous system of (Sehafer), 16. 

 Ayrton (W. E.) and J. Perry, contact 



theory of voltaic action : Parts I and 



II, 196. 



— — -, on the viscosity of dielectrics, 



No. I, 238. 



Baber (E. C), further researches on the 

 minute structure of the thyroid gland. 

 Preliminary communication, 56. 



Bacillus, observations on (Ewart), 474. 



Bacterium termo and Micrococcus, the 

 life-history of (Ewart), 474. 



Baer (K. E. von), obituary notice, i. 



Baker (J. Or.) elected, 447; admitted, 

 447. 



Balfour (F. M.) elected, 447 ; admitted. 

 447. 



and A. Sedgwick, on the existence 



of a rudimentary head-kidney in the 

 embryo chick, 443. 



Barometers (standard), on the com- 

 parison of the, of the Boyal obser- 

 vatory, Greenwich, and the Kew 

 observatory (Whipple), 76. 



Batrachian lymph-heart, contributions 

 to the physiology of (Priestley), 137. 



Binary quantics, on the limits to the 

 order and degree of the fundamental 

 invariants of (Sylvester), 11. 



Bischof (Gr.) on putrescent organic matter 

 in potable water, 258. 



Bonney (Rev. T. Gf.) elected, 447. 



Bowrey (J. J.) on the physiological 

 action of the . poisonous principle of 

 Urechites suberecta, 309. 



Brachiopoda dredged by H.M.S. " Chal- 

 lenger " (Davidson), 428. 



Brain, cortical lamination of the motor 

 area of the (Lewis and Clarke), 38. 



Bridge (F. W.), osteology of polyodon 

 folium, 454. 



Brioschi (F.) sur une equation differen- 

 tielle du 3me ordre, 126. 



Brodie (Sir B. C.) on the relative "facility 

 of production " of chemical combina- 

 tions, 51. 



Brunton (T. L.) and Sir J. Fayrer, note 

 on the effect of various substances in 

 destroying the activity of cobra poison, 

 465. 



Bulbar (J. F.) on the development of 

 the parasitic isopoda, 284. 



Candidates for election, list of, March 7. 



1878, 156. 



, list of selected, 332. 



Carbon, note on the existence of, in 



the coronal atmosphere of the sun 



(Lockyer), 308. 



