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INDEX. 



characters of some specimens of, witli 

 notes on certain analogous structures 

 in rocks (Herman and Rutley) , 87. 



G-lucinum (beryllium), on the atomic 

 weight of (Humpidge), 1. 



Government Grant of £4,000, account 

 of the appropriation of the, 310. 



Grants from the Donation Fund, account 

 of, 313. 



Harmonic analysis of tidal observations, 

 residts of the (Baird and Darwin), 

 135. 



Hector (J.) on the total solar eclipse 

 of September 9, 1885, 208. 



Henle (F. G-. J.), obituary notice, iii. 



Hennessy (H.) on the geometrical con- 

 struction of the cell of the honey bee, 

 253. 



Herman (D.) and F. Rutley, on the 

 microscopic characters of some speci- 

 mens of devitrified glass, with notes 

 on certain analogous structures in 

 rocks, 87. 



Horsley (Y. A.) and E. A. Schafer, 

 experimental researches in cerebral 

 physiology. II. — On the muscular 

 contractions which are evoked by exci- 

 tation of the motor tract, 404. 



Huggins (William) on the corona of 

 the sun (Bakerian lecture), 108. 



Humpidge (T. S.) on the atomic weight 

 of glucinum (beryllium), 1. 



Integrals, on certain definite, Nos. 13, 14 

 (Russell), 20, 22. 



Jenkin (Henry Charles Fleeming), obi- 

 tuary notice, i. 



Judd (J. .W.), on the relation of the 

 reptiliferous sandstone of Elgin to 

 the upper old red sandstone, 394. 



report on a series of specimens 



of the deposits of the Nile delta, 

 213. 



Kew Committee, report of the, 314. 



Observatory, history of (Scott), 



37. 



Klein (Felix) elected, 362. 

 Kowalewski (A.) elected, 362. 



Lamb (Horace) admitted, 409. 



Lamprey, on the formation of the meso- 

 blast and the persistence of the blasto- 

 pore in the (Shipley), 244. 



Langley (J. N.) on variations in the 

 amount and distribution of fat in the 

 liver-cells of the frog, 234. 



Lockyer (J. N.), a new form of spectro- 

 scope, 416. 



Loven (Sven) elected, 362. 



MacMunn (C. A.), researches on myo- 

 hsematin and the histohsematins, 248. 



Magnetisation (on the) of steel, cast 

 iron, and soft iron (Gemmell), 374. 



McConnel (J.), an experimental inves- 

 tigation into the form of the wave 

 surface of quartz, 409. 



Medals, presentation of the, 299. 



Myohaematin and the histohsematins, re- 

 searches on (MacMunn), 248. 



Naja tripudians (Indian cobra), a pre- 

 liminary account of a research into the 

 nature of the venom of the (Wolf en - 

 den), 436. 



Newall (H. F.) and J. J. Thomson, on 

 the formation of vortex rings by 

 drops falling into liquids and some 

 allied phenomena, 417. 



Nile delta, report on a series of speci- 

 mens of the deposits of the (Judd), 

 213. 



Nitrogen, influence of bodily labour 

 upon the discharge of (North), 443. 



North (W.), the influence of bodily 

 labour upon the discharge of nitrogen, 

 443. 



Obituary notices of fellows deceased : — 



Davidson, Thomas, viii. 



Henle, F. G-. J., iii. 



Jenkin, Henry Charles Fleeming, i. 

 O'SulHvan (C), admitted, 208. 



Peripatus (South African), on the fer- 

 tilised ovum and formation of the 

 layers of the (Sedgwick), 239. 



Perry (Rev. S. J.) and B. Stewart, pre- 

 liminary results 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 magneto - 

 graphs at these observatories, 362. 



Presents, lists of, 339, 436. 



President's address, 278. 



Quartz, an experimental investigation 

 into the form of the wave surface of 

 (McConnel), 409. 



Ramsay (W.) and S. Young, on evapo- 

 ration and dissociation, 228. 



Rocks, on the microscopic characters of 

 some specimens of devitrified glass, 

 with notes on certain analogous struc- 

 tures in (Herman and Rutley), 87. 



Russell (W. H. L.) on certain definite 

 integrals (Nos. 13, 14), 20, 22. 



