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Table showing Progress and present State of Society with, regard to 

 Fellows 386 



Financial Statement 387 



Trust Funds 391 



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

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

 employed in aiding the Advancement of Science 396 



A ccount of Grants from the Donation Fund 399 



Report of the Kew Committee 400 



The Minute Anatomy of the Brachial Plexus. By W. P. Herringham, 

 M.B., M.R.C.P 423 



No. 250.— December 9, 1886. 



Note to a Paper on the Geometrical Construction of the Cell of the Honey 

 Bee ('Boy. Soc. Proc.,' vol. 39, p. 253). By Henry Hennessy, 

 F.R.S., Professor of Applied Mathematics in the Royal College of 

 Science, Dublin 442 



A New Method for the Quantitative Estimation of the Micro-organisms 

 present in the Atmosphere. By Percy F. Frankland, Ph.D., B.Sc, 

 F.C.S., F.I.C., Assoc. Roy. Sch. Mines 443 



Further Experiments on the Distribution of Micro-organisms in Air (by 

 Hesse's method). By Percy F. Frankland, Ph.D., B.Sc, F.I.C., F.C.S., 

 and T. G. Hart, A.R.S.M 446 



On the Intra-Ovarian Egg of some Osseous Fishes. By Robert Scharff, 

 Ph.D., B.Sc 447 



Note on a New Form of Direct Vision Spectroscope. By G. D. Liveing, 

 M.A., F.R.S., Professor of Chemistry, and J. Dewar, M.A., F.R.S., 

 Jacksonian Professor of Natural Philosophy, University of Cambridge 449 



December 16, 1886. 



Note on Specific Inductive Capacity. By John Hopkinson, M.A., D.Sc, 

 F.R.S. :. :. „ 453 



Addendum to the same. By Professor Quincke, For. Mem. R.S 458 



On a Varying Cylindrical Lens. By Tempest Anderson, M.D., B.Sc 460 



On the Action of the Excised Mammalian Heart. By Augustus Waller, 

 M.D., and E. Waymouth Reid, M.B 461 



On the Effect of Polish on the Reflexion of Light from the Surface of 

 Iceland Spar. By C. Spurge, B.A., St. Catherine's College, Cambridge 463 



Contributions to the Chemistry of Chlorophyll. No. II. By Edward 

 Schunck, F.R.S 465 



