PROCEEDINGS OF 

 THE ROYAL SOCIETY. 



vol. xxxyi. No. 229. 



m 01 



\t>- - y CONTENTS. 



December 6, 1883. 



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 I. Description of Parts of a Human Skeleton from a Pleistocene (Palaeolithic) 



Bed, Tilbury, Essex. By Professor Owen, C.B., F.E.S., &c. . . 13& 



II. The "Wave-lengths of A, a, and of Permanent Lines in the Infra-Eed of 



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



December 13, 1883. 



I. Note on a Series of Barometrical Disturbances -which passed over Europe 

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



E. E.S., Secretary to the Meteorological Council. (Plate 1) . . 



II. Note on the Eoregoing Paper. By Lieutenant- Greneral E. Steachet, 



F. E.S 



III. Experimental Eesearches on the Electric Discharge with the Chloride of 

 Silver Battery. By Wabben De La Eue, M.A., D.C.L., Ph.D., F.E.S., 

 and Hugo W. Mulleb, Ph.D., F.E.S. ...... 151 



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

 By Gr. H. Daewin, F.E.S., Plumian Professor of Astronomy and 

 Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge 158- 



December 20, 1883. 



I. On a Magnetic Balance, and Experimental Eesearches made therewith. 



By Professor D. E. Hughes, F.E.S 167 



II. Eeport on the Circumpolar Expedition to Fort Eae. By Captain H. P. 



Dawson, E.A 173 



III. On the Changes in the Gland Cells of Dioncea muscipula during Secretion. 



By Walter Gabdineb, B.A., Scholar of Clare College, Cambridge . 180 



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