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INDEX. 



mass of fluid, on Jacobi's (Darwin), 

 319. 



Financial statement, 387. 



Fishes, on the intra-ovarian egg of some 

 osseous (Scharff:), 447. 



Frankland (P. F.), a new method for the 

 quantitative estimation of the micro- 

 organisms present in the atmosphere, - 

 443. 



and T. G. Hart, further experi- 

 ments on the distribution of micro- 

 organisms in air (by Hesse's method), 

 446. 



Geometrical construction of the cell of 



the honey bee, note to a paper on the 



(Hennessy), 442. 

 Germination, on the changes in the 



proteids in the seed which accompany 



(Green), 466. 

 Government Grant of 4,O00Z., account of 



the appropriation of the, 396. 

 Grants from the Donation Fund in 1885- 



86, 399. 



Green (J. R.) on the changes in the 

 proteids in the seed which accompany 

 germination, 466. 



Hart (T. G.) and P. F. FranMand, 

 further experiments on the distribu- 

 tion of micro-organisms in air (by 

 Hesse's method), 446. 



Heart, on the action of the excised 

 mammalian (Waller and Reid), 461. 



Hennessy (H.), note to a paper on the 

 geometrical construction of the cell of 

 the honey bee (' Roy. Soc. Proc.,' vol. 

 39. p. 253), 442. 



Herringham (W. P.), the minute 

 anatomy of the brachial plexus, 423. 



Hopkinson (J.), note on specific induc- 

 tive capacity, 453. 



addendum (Quincke), 458. 



Iceland spar, on the effect of polish on 

 the reflexion of light from the surface 

 of (Spurge), 463. 



Intestinal rest and movement, contribu- 

 tion to the study of (Cash) , 212. 



Intra-ovarian egg of some osseous fishes, 

 on the (Scharff), 447. 



Jacobi's, on, figure of equilibrium for a 

 rotating mass of fluid (Darwin), 319. 



Joly (J.) on the method of condensation 

 in calorimetry, 248, 352. 



on the specific heats of minerals, 



250. 



Kew Committee, report of the, 400. 



Lens, on a varying cylindrical (Ander- 

 son), 460. 



Light, on the effect of polish on the 

 reflexion of, from the surface of Ice- 

 land spar (Spurge), 463. 



reflected, from certain surfaces at 



nearly perpendicular incidence, on the 

 intensity of (Rayleigh), 275. 



Liveing (G. D.) and J. Dewar, note on 

 a new form of direct vision spectro- 

 scope, 449. 



Mackie (W.) and T. Carnelley, the de- 

 termination of organic matter in 

 air, 238. 



Mammalian heart, on the action of the 

 excised (Waller and Reid), 461. 



Marcet (W.), an instrument for the 

 speedy volumetric determination of 

 carbonic acid, 181. 



Medals, presentation of the, 383. 



Micro-organisms in air, further experi- 

 ments (by Hesse's method), on the 

 distribution of (Frankland and Hart), 

 446. 



present in the atmosphere, a new 



method for the quantitative estimation 

 of the (Frankland), 443.. 



Minerals, on the specific heats of (Joly), 

 250. 



Minute anatomy of the brachial plexus 

 (Herringham), 423. 



Mountain ranges, on underground tem- 

 peratures ; with observations on a 

 special source of heat in (Prestwich), 

 1. 



Obituary notices of fellows deceased : — 



Andrews, Thomas, xi. 



Apjohn, James, i. 



Carpenter, William Benjamin, ii. 



Enniskillen, Earl of, ix. 

 Officers, nomination of, 317. 



election of, 386. 



Organic matter in air, the determination 



of (Carnelley and Mackie), 238. 

 Osseous fishes, on the intra-ovarian egg 



of some (Scharff), 447. 

 Owen (Sir R.), additional evidence of 



the affinities of the extinct marsupial 



quadruped, Thylacoleo camifex, Ow., 



317. 



Photometry of the stars (Pritchard), 

 195. 



Presents, lists of, 343, 471. 



President, address of the, 373. 



Prestwich (J.) on undei-ground tempe- 

 ratures ; with observations on the 

 conductivity of rocks ; on the thermal 

 effects of saturation and imbibition ; 

 and on a special source of heat in 

 mountain ranges, 1. 



on the agency of water in volcanic 



eruptions ; with some observations on 



