PROCEEDINGS OF 

 THE ROYAL SOCIETY. 



vol, xxxix. No. 240. 



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CONTENTS. 

 November 19, 1885. 



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I. On the Total Solar Eclipse of September 9, 1885 (in a Letter to Professor 

 Stokes, Sec. E.S.). By James Hectob, M.D., E.E.S., Director of 

 the Geological Survey, New Zealand . . . . . . . 208 



II. On the Total Solar Eclipse of September 9, 1885 (in a Letter to J. N. 



Lockyeb, F.E.S.). By A. S. Atkinson . . . . . 211 



III. Eeport on a Series of Specimens of the Deposits of the Nile Delta, 



obtained by the recent Boring Operation. By J. W. Jttdd, F.E.S., 

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

 municated by desire of the Delta Committee 213 



IV. On Evaporation and Dissociation. Part I. By Professor William 



Eamsay, Ph.D., and Sydney Young, D.Sc, Lecturer and Demon- 

 strator of Chemistry in University College, Bristol . . . 228- 



V. On the Phenomena accompanying Stimulation of the Grland-Cells in the 

 Tentacles of Drosera dichotoma. By William G-aedinee, M.A., 

 Eellow of Clare College, Cambridge, Demonstrator of Botany in the 

 University 229 



VI. On Variations in the Amount and Distribution of Fat in the Liver-Cells 

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

 in the University of Cambridge 234 



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