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fluid of a neutral or slightly acid reaction. This distension of the 

 stomach occurs in most but not in all cases. The fluid is, I find, 

 usually alkaline, sometimes both the mucous fluid in the stomach and 

 the stomach-wall itself are strongly alkaline. The fluid contains a 

 small amount of pepsin. Dextrin produces a similar but less 

 distension of the stomach, the mucous fluid in this case is usually 

 acid. I may mention that digestion in the frog is delayed very 

 greatly by peptone, and slightly by dextrin. The stimulus set up by 

 the fluid in the stomach may have something to do with the changes 

 in the liver which follow injection of peptone or of dextrin. But 

 since the changes in the liver occur in the cases in which, the injection 

 causes little or no formation of fluid in the stomach, I attribute them 

 in the main to the direct action of the substauce injected. This I am 

 the more inclined to do since I find that both peptone and dextrin 

 cause in a few hours an accumulation of glycogen* in the liver in 

 summer-frogs. 



November 26, 1885. 



THE PRESIDENT in the Chair. 



In pursuance of the Statutes, notice was given from the Chair of 

 the ensuing Anniversary Meeting, and the list of Officers and Council 

 nominated for election, was read as follows : — 



President. — Professor George Gabriel Stokes, M.A., D.C.L., LL.D. 



Treasurer. — John Evans, D.C.L., LL.D. 



. f Professor Michael Foster, M.A., M.D. 

 becretaries.— ^ The Rayleigh) M A . D C L 



Foreign Secretary. — Professor Alexander William "Williamson, LL.D. 



Other Members of the Council. — Professor Robert B. Clifton, M.A. , 

 Professor James Dewar, M.A. ; Professor William Henry Flower, 

 LL.D. ; Archibald Geikie, LL.D.; Sir Joseph D. Hooker, K.C.S.I.; 

 Professor Thomas Henry Huxley, D.C.L., LL.D. ; Admiral Sir A. 

 Cooper Key, G.C.B.; J. Norman Lockyer, F.R.A.S. ; Professor 

 Henry N; Moseley, M.A. ; Professor Bartholomew Price, M.A. ; 

 Reverend Professor Pritchard, D.D., F.R.A.S. ; William James 

 Russell, Ph.D. ; Professor J. S. Burdon Sanderson, LL.D. ; Professor 



* Seegen has shown that peptone increases the amount of sugar in the lirer. 



