PROCEEDINGS OF 

 THE ROYAL SOCIETY. 



VOL. XXVII. 



No. 187. 



CONTENTS. 



April 4, 1878. 



PAGE 



I. On the Development of the Parasitic Isopoda, By J. F. Bullae, B.A., 



II. On the Determination of the Constants of the Cup Anemometer by 

 Experiments with a Whirling Machine. By the Rev. T. It. Robin- 

 son, D.D., F.R.S., &c. 286 



III. On the Action of Ozone on Nuclei. By Chaeles Tomlinson, F.R.S. . 290 

 17. Notes on Physical Geology. By the Rev. Samuel Haughton, M.D. 

 Dublin, D.C.L., Oxon, F.R.S., Professor of Geology in the University 

 ofDublin . . . . . . . . . . .291 



I. The Acceleration of Oxidation caused by the Least Refrangible End of the 



Spectrum. By Captain Abney, R.E., E.R.S 291 



II. Summary of an Experimental Inquiry into the Function of Respiration at 



Various Altitudes. By Williim Maeget, M.D., F.R.S. . . . 293 



III. On Stresses in Rarefied Gases arising from Inequalities of Temperature. 



By J. Cleek Maxwell, F.R.S. , Professor of Experimental Physics in 

 the University of Cambridge . . . . ... . 304 



IV. Note on the Existence of Carbon in the Coronal Atmosphere of the Sun. 



By J. N. Lockyee, F.R.S .308 



V. On the Physiological Action of the Poisonous Principle of Urechites 

 Suberecta. By James John Boweey, F.C.S., M.I.C. Analytical 

 Chemist to the Government of Jamaica 309 



I. On the Life-History of a Minute Septic Orgaiiism : with an account of 

 Experiments made to determine its Thermal Death Point. By the 

 Rev. W. H. Dallingee. (Plates 8-9.) ...... 332 



II. On the Reversal of the Lines of Metallic Vapours. By G. D. Liveing, 

 M.A., Professor of Chemistry, and J. DeWAE, M.A., F.R.S., Jacksonian 

 Professor, University of Cambridge . . . . . . . 350 



Trinity College, Cambridge 



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