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Financial Statement 302—305 



Trust Funds 306—309 



Account of the Appropriation of the sum of £4,000 (the Government 

 Grant) annually voted by Parliament to the Koyal Society, to be 

 employed in aiding the Advancement of Science 310 



Account of Grants from the Donation Fund 313 



Eeport of the Kew Committee 314 



List of Presents 339 



Contributions to the Chemistry of Chlorophyll. By Edward Schunck, 

 F.E.S : 348 



No. 241.— December 10, 1885. 



Preliminary Eesults of a Comparison of certain simultaneous Fluctuations . 

 of the Declination at Kew and at Stonyhurst during the Years 1883 and 

 1884, as recorded by the Magnetographs at these Observatories. By 

 the Bev. Stephen Joseph Perry, F.E.S., Director of the Stonyhurst 

 Observatory, and Balfour Stewart, LL.D., F.E.S. , Professor of Physics 

 at the Owens College, Manchester 362 



On the Magnetisation of Steel, Cast Iron, and Soft Iron (being the 

 Investigation for which the Watt Prize of 1884 was awarded by the 

 Senate of the University of Glasgow). By John W. Gemmell 374 



On the Limited Hydration of Ammonium Carbamate. By H. J. H. 

 Fenton, M.A., F.C.S., F.I.C., Demonstrator in Chemistry in the 

 University of Cambridge 386 



On the Eelation of the Eeptiliferous Sandstone of Elgin to the Upper 

 Old Eed Sandstone. By Professor John W. Judd, F.E.S., Sec. G.S 394 



Experimental Eesearches in Cerebral Physiology. II. On the Muscular 

 Contractions which are evoked by Excitation of the Motor Tract. By 

 V. A. Horsley, M.B., B.S., Professor Superintendent of the Brown 

 Institution and Assistant Professor of Pathology in University College, 

 London, and E. A. Schafer, F.E.S., Jodrell Professor of Physiology in 

 University College 404 



December 17, 1885. 



In Experimental Investigation into the Form of the "Wave Surface of 

 Quartz. By James C. McConnel, B.A 409 



Second Eeport on the Evidence of Fossil Plants regarding the Age 

 of the Tertiary Basalts of the North- East Atlantic. By J. Starkie 

 Gardner .' 412 



addition to a former Paper on Trichophyton tonsurans (" Proc. Boy. 

 Soc," vol. 33, p. 234). By George Thin, M.D 415 



, New Form of Spectroscope. By J. Norman Lockyer, F.E.S 416 



