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INDEX. 



Lundstrom (C. J.) flame spectra ob- 

 served at Swedish Bessemer Works, 

 76. 



McAulay (A.) octonions, 169. 



McClean (Frank) admitted, i. 



MacMahon (P. A.) memoir on the 

 theory of the partitions of numbers. 

 Part I, 197. 



Madreporarian types of corals, micro- 

 scopic and systematic study of the 

 (Ogilvie), 9. 



Magnetical observations at Falmouth 

 observatory, report of, 415. 



Mallock (A.) experiments on fluid vis- 

 cosity, 38. 



Marchlewski (L.) and E. Schunck, con- 

 tributions to the chemistry of chloro- 

 phyll. No. YII. Phylloporphyrin 

 and hsematoporphyrin : a comparison, 

 233. 



Mathematical theory of evolution, con- 

 tributions to the. Note on reproduc- 

 tive selection (Pearson), 301. 



III. Regression, heredity, 



and panmixia (Pearson), 69. 



Medals, presentation of the, 119. 



Mendeleeff (D.) on the weight of a 

 cubic decimetre of water at its maxi- 

 mum density, 143. 



Metals, on the diffusion of. Bakerian 

 lecture (Roberts-Austen) , 281. 



Metscbnikoff (E.) elected a foreign 

 member, 160. 



Minchin (G-. M.) the electrical measure- 

 ment of starlight. Observations 

 made at the observatory of Dara- 

 mona House, co. Westmeath, in 

 January, 1896. Second report, 231. 



Minerals, an attempt to determine the 

 condition in which helium and the 

 associated gases exist in (Tilden), 

 218. 



Monotremata, on the complete skeleton 

 of an anomodont reptile, giving new 

 evidence of the relation of the anomo- 

 dontia to the (Seeley), 167. 



Moonlight and starlight, the photo- 

 graphic values of, compared with the 

 light of a standard candle (Abney), 

 314. 



Moore (B.) and E. A. Schafer, on the 

 rhythmic contractility of the spleen. 

 Preliminary notice, 229. 



■ on the spinal-root connections 



and ganglion-cell connections of the 

 nerve-fibres which produce contrac- 

 tion of the spleen, 287. 



Murray (J. R. E.) on the effect of the 

 Rontgen X rays on the contact elec- 

 tricity of metals, 333. 



Nerve, observations on isolated. Elec- 



trical changes a measure of physico- 

 chemical change. Croonian lecture 

 (Waller), 308. 

 Nerve-fibres, on the spinal-root connec- 

 tions and ganglion -cell connections 

 of the, which produce contraction of 

 the spleen (Schafer and Moore), 

 287. 



Numbers, memoir on the theory of the 

 partitions of. Part I (MacMahon), 

 197. 



Obituary notices of Fellows deceased : — 

 Babington, Charles Cardale, viii. 

 Baillon, Henri Ernest, lxvii. 

 Bristowe, John Syer, x. 

 Bruce, Henry Austin, Lord Aberdare, 

 xiv. 



Buchanan, Sir Greorge, xli. 

 Cockle, Sir James, xxx. 

 Dobson, G-eorge Edward, xv. 

 Helmholtz, Hermann von, xvii. 

 Huxley, Thomas Henry, xlvi. 

 Ludwig, Carl Friedrich Wilhelm, i. 

 Pengelly, William, xxxix. 

 Tomes, Sir John, xiii. 

 Topley, William, lxix. 

 Walker, James T., xliii. 



Octonions (McAulay), 169. 



Officers, election of, 124. 



Ogilvie (M. M.) microscopic and sys- 

 tematic study of madreporarian types 

 of corals, 9. 



Ophioglossaceoe, studies in the morph- 

 ology of spore-producing members. 

 Part II (Bower), 137. 



Optic axial emergences, angular mea- 

 surement of (Pope), 366. (Title 

 only) 



Panmixia, regression, and heredity 



(Pearson), 69. 

 Partitions of numbers, memoir on the 



theory of the. Part I (MacMahon), 



197. 



Paschen and Runge's diffusion experi- 

 ment with the new gas from uranin- 

 ite, remarks on (Lockyer), 342. 



Pearson (K.) contributions to the mathe- 

 matical theory of evolution. Note on 

 reproductive selection, 301. 



III. Regression, heredity, and 



panmixia, 69. 



Pengelly (William), obituary notice of, 

 xxxix. 



Photographic values of moonlight and 

 starlight compared with the light of 

 a standard candle (Abney), 314. 



Phylloporphyrin and haematoporphyrin : 

 a comparison (Schunck and March- 

 lewski), 233. 



