CONTENTS {continued). 

 November 26, 1885. 



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I. 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 



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

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



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



MacMttnn, M.A., M.D * 248 



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

 Heney Hennessy, F.E.S., Professor of Mathematics in the Eoyal 

 College of Science, Dublin . . . 253 



V. Eesults 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. Aiey, K.C.B., F.E.S., late Astronomer Eoyal 255 



VI. Studies of Disinfectants by New Methods. By A. "Wyntee Blyth, 



Medical Officer of Health 259 



November 30, 1885. 



ANNIVEESAEY MEETING. 



Eeport 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 



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 Eoyal 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 Edwaed Schttnck, F.E.S. 348 



Obituary Notice : — 



Thomas Davidson . . . viii 



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