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November 30, 1883. 

 Anniversary Meeting. 



Paee 



Report of Auditors 59 



List of Fellows deceased since last Anniversary 59 



elected 60 



Address of the President 60 



Presentation of the Medals 73 



Election of Council and Officers 75 



Financial Statement 76 — 78 



Trust Funds 79—82 



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 83 



Account of Grants from the Donation Fund 86 



Report of the Kew Committee 87 



List of Presents Ill 



On the Production of Transient Electric Currents in Iron and Steel Con- 

 ductors by Twisting them when Magnetised or by Magnetising them 

 when Twisted. By J. A. Ewing, B.Sc, F.RS.E., Professor of 

 Mechanical Engineering and Physics in the University of Tokio, 

 Japan, now Professor of Engineering in University College, Dundee.... 117 



No. ^.—December 6, 1883. 



Description of Parts of a Human Skeleton from a Pleistocene (Palaeo- 

 lithic) Bed, Tilbury, Essex. By Professor Owen, C.B., F.R.S., &c 136 



The Wave-lengths of A, a, and of Permanent Lines in the Infra-red of 

 the Solar Spectrum. By Captain W. de W. Abney, R.E., F.R.S 137 



December 13, 1883. 



Note on a Series of Barometrical Disturbances which passed over Europe 

 between the 27th and the 31st of August, 1883. By Robert H. Scott, 

 F.R.S., Secretary to the Meteorological Council. (Plate 1) 139 



Note on the Foregoing Paper. By Lieutenant-General R. Strachey, 

 F.R.S 143 



Experimental Researches on the Electric Discharge with the Chloride of 

 Silver Battery : Second Postscript to Part IV. By Warren De La Rue, 

 M.A., D.C.L., Ph.D., F.RS., and Hugo W. MiiUer, Ph.D., F.R.S 151 



On the Figure of Equilibrium of a Planet of Heterogeneous Density. 

 By G. H. Darwin, F.R.S., Plumian Professor of Astronomy and 

 Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge 158 



