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June 6, 1878. 



Annual Meeting for Election of Fellows . ' 447 



June 20, 1878. 



I. Notes on Physical Geology. No. Y. Mr. George H. Darwin's Com- 

 ments on Note No. III. By the Rev. Samuel Hatghton, M.D., 



F.R.S. '. . . . 447 



II. On the Acceleration of Oxidation by the Least Refrangible End of the 



Spectrum. Note II. By Captain Abney, R.E., F.R.S. . . . 451 

 III. A Tenth Memoir on Quantics. By Professor A. Catley, F.R.S. . 452 

 IY. Osteology of Polyodon folium. By T. W. Bridge, B.A. . . . 454 

 Y. On Astropliiura permira, an Echinoderm-form intermediate between 



Ophiuroidea and Asteroidea." By W. Percy Sladejst, F.L.S., F.G.S. 456 

 YI. Experimental Researches on the Temperature of the Head. Part II, III, 



IY. By J. S. Lombard, M.D. . . . . • '. . . 457 



YII. Note on the Effect of various Substances in Destroying the Activity of 

 Cobra Poison. By T. Lauder Brenton, M.D., F.R.S., and Sir Joseph 



Fayrer, K.C.S.I., M.D., F.R.S. 465 



YIII. The Life-History of Bacterium termo and Micrococcus, with further 



Observations on Bacillus. By J. Cossar Ewart, M.D. Edin. . 474 

 IX. On the Life-History of Spirillum. By Patrice: Geddes and J. Cossar 



Ewart, M.D. Edin., University College, London 481 



X. On an Easy and at the same time Accurate Method of Determining the 

 Ratio of the Dispersions of Glasses intended for Objectives. By Pro- 

 fessor G. G. Stokes, M.A., Sec. R.S. . . . . . .485 



XI. On the Reversal of the Lines of Metallic Yapours. By G. D. Liveing, 

 M.A., Professor of Chemistry, and-T. Dewar, M.A., F.R.S., Jacksonian 

 Professor, University of Cambridge. No. Ill ..... 494 



XII. An Experimental Investigation into the Velocities of Normal Propaga- 

 tion of Plane Waves in a Biaxal Crystal, with a Comparison of the 

 Results with Theory. By R. T. Glazebrook, B.A. . . . 496 



List of Presents 503 



On the Thermo-Electric Properties of Liquids. By G. Gore, LL.D., F.R.S. 513 



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