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Keport on a Series of Specimens of the Deposits of the Nile Delta, 

 obtained by the recent Boring Operations. By J. W. Judd, F.R.S., 

 Sec. G.S., Professor of Geology in the Normal School of Mines. Com- 

 municated by desire of the Delta Committee 213 



On Evaporation and Dissociation. Part I. By Professor William 

 Eamsay, Ph.D., and Sydney Young, D.Sc, Lecturer and Demonstrator 

 of Chemistry in University College, Bristol = 228 



On the Phenomena accompanying Stimulation of the Gland-Cells in the 

 Tentacles of Drosera dichotoma. By William Gardiner, M.A., Fellow 

 of Clare College, Cambridge, Demonstrator of Botany in the Uni- 

 versity 229 



On Variations in the Amount and Distribution of Pat in the Liver-Cells 

 of the Frog. By J. N. Langley, M.A., F.R.S., Lecturer on Histology 



in the University of Cambridge 234 



November 26, 1885. 



On the Fertilised Ovum and Formation of the Layers of the South 

 African Peripatus. By Adam Sedgwick, M.A., Fellow of Trinity 

 College, Cambridge .' 239 



On the Formation of the Mesoblast, and the Persistence of the Blasto- 

 pore in the Lamprey. By Arthur E. Shipley, B.A 244 



Eesearches on Myohsematin and the Histohsematins. By C. A. 

 MacMunn, M.A., M.D 248 



On the Geometrical Construction of the Cell of the Honey Bee. By 

 Henry Hennessy, F.R.S., Professor of Mathematics in the Royal 

 College of Science, Dublin , 253 



Results deduced from the Measures of Terrestrial Magnetic Force in the 

 Horizontal Plane at the Royal Observatory, Greenwich, from 1841 to 

 1876. By Sir G. B. Airy, K.C.B., F.R.S., late Astronomer Royal 255 



Studies of Disinfectants by New Methods. By A. Wynter Blyth, 

 Medical Officer of Health .' ' 259 



November 30, 1885. 

 Anniversary Meeting. 



Report of Auditors 277 



List of Fellows deceased since last Anniversary 277 



elected 278 



Address of the President , 278 



Presentation of the Medals 299 • 



Election of Council and Officers 301 



Table showing Progress and present State of Society with regard to 

 Fellows 301 



