PROCEEDINGS OF 



THE ROYAL SOCIETY. 



VOL. XL VI. 



No. 282. 



CONTENTS. 



June 6, 1889. 



P^GE 



Election of Fellows 



175 



I. Electro-chemical Effects on Magnetising Iron. Part III. By Thomas 



Akdeews, E.R.SS.L. & E., M.Inst.C.E 176 



II. Report on the Effects of Contact Metamorphisin exhibited by the Silu- 

 rian Rocks near the Town of New Galloway, in the Southern Uplands 

 of Scotland. By S. Allpoet, E.G-.S., and Professor T. G. Bonney, 

 D.Sc, E.R.S. . . . . ■ . ... . .193 



III. On some Variations of Cardium edide, apparently correlated to the Con- 



ditions of Life. By William Bateson, M.A., Eellow of St. John's 

 College, Cambridge, and Balfour Student in the LTniversity . . 204 



IV. On the Occurrence of Skatole in the Vegetable Kingdom. By Windham 



B. Dunstan, M.A., E.C.S., Professor of Chemistry to, and Director 

 of the Research Laboratory of, the Pharmaceutical Society of Great 

 Britain 211 



V. The Conditions of the Reaction between Copper and Nitric Acid. By 



V. H. Yelet, M.A., the University Museum, Oxford . . . 216 



VI. Notes on the Absorption-spectra of Oxygen and some of its Compounds. 

 By G. D. Liveing, M.A., E.R.S., Professor of Chemistry, and 

 J. Dewae, M.A., E.R.S., Jacksonian Professor, University of 

 Cambridge . . . 222 



VII. Note on the Photographic Spectra of Uranus and Saturn. By William 



Httggins, D.C.L., LL.D., E.R.S., and Mrs. Huggins . . .231 



VIII. The Physical Properties of Vulcanised India-rubber. By A. Mallock 233 



List of Presents 249 



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