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VIII. Memoir on Abel's Theorem. By E. C. Eowe, Fellow of Trinity 



College, Cambridge 515 



June 17, 1880. 



I. Notes of Observations on Musical Beats. By Alexander J. Ellis, 



B.A., F.E.S., F.S.A 520 



II. On the Lowering of the Freezing-Point of Water by Pressure. By 

 James Dewab, M.A., F.E.S. , Jacksonian Professor of Natural 

 Experimental Philosophy in the University of Cambridge . . 533 



III. On the Critical Point of Mixed Vapours. By James Dewab, M.A., 



F.E.S., Jacksonian Professor of Natural Experimental Philosophy 



in the University of Cambridge 5.38 



IV. The Aluminium Iodine Eeaction. By J. H. Gladstone, Ph.D., 



F.E.S., and Aleeed Tribe, F.C.S., Lecturer on Chemistry in 

 Dulwich College 546 



V. Preliminary Note on the Ossification of the Terminal Phalanges of the 



Digits. By E. A. Schafer, F.E.S., and F. A. Dixey, B.A. . . 550 



VI. On the Organisation of the Fossil Plants of the Coal-measures. Part 

 XI. By W. C. Williamson, F.E.S., Professor of Botany in 

 Owens College, Manchester ........ 550 



VII. Note on the Discovery of a Fresh Water Medusa of the Order Tracho- 



rneclusse. By E. Eat Lankesteb, F.E.S. ..... 554 



VIII. Agricultural, Botanical, and Chemical Eesults of Experiments on the 

 Mixed Herbage of Permanent Meadow, conducted for more than 

 Twenty Years in Succession on the same Land. Part II. The 

 Botanical Eesults. By J. B. Lawes, LL.D., F.E.S., F.C.S., J. BT. 

 'Gilbert, Ph.D., F.E.S. , F.GS., F.L.S., and M. T. Masters, M.D., 

 F.E.S., F.L.S. . . ... . . . . . .556 



IX. Preliminary Note on some Points in the Pathology of Anthrax, with 

 especial reference to the Modification of the Properties of the 

 Bacillus anthracis by Cultivation, and to the Protective Influence 

 of Inoculation with a Modified- Virus. By W. S. Geeeneield, 

 M.D., F.E.C.P., Professor Superintendent of the Brown Institu- 

 tion . . . . . . 557 



X. On the Miocene Plants discovered on the Mackenzie Eiver. By Pro- 

 fessor Oswald Heeb, of Zurich 



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XL Experimental Eesearches on the Electric Discharge with the Chloride 

 of Silver Battery. Supplement to Part III. By Warren De La 

 Hue, M.A., D.C.L., F.E.S., and Hrao W. Mullee, Ph.D., F.E.S. . 563 



XII. On the Constants of the Cup Anemometer. By the Eev. T. E. 



Eobinson, D.D., F.E.S., &c . . 572 



