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On Measuring the relative Thermal Intensity of the Sun, and on a Self- 

 Registering Instrument for that purpose. By E. Frankland, D.C.L., 

 F.R.S 331 



February 9, 1882. 



Note on Mr. Russell's paper, " On certain Definite Integrals. No. 10." 

 By William Spottiswoode, M.A., D.C.L., LL.D., Pres. R.S 341 



Report of an Examination of the Meteorites of Cranbourne, Australia ; 

 of Rowton, Shropshire ; and of Middlesbrough, in Yorkshire. By 

 Walter Elight, D.Sc., F.G.S., of the Department of Mineralogy, British 

 Museum, South Kensington 343 



February 16, 1882. 



On Impact with a Liquid Surface. By A. M. Worthington, M.A 347 



The Minute Anatomy of the Thymus. By Herbert Watney, M. A., M.D. 

 Cantab 349 



On the Influence of the Galvanic Current on the Excitability of the 

 Motor Nerves of Man. Bv Augustus Waller, M.D., and A. de Watte- 

 ville, M.A., B.Sc 353 



On the Excretion of Nitrogen by the Skin. By J. Byrne Power, L.C.P.I. 354 



February 23, 1882. 



The Bakerian Lecture, on the " Chemical Theory of Gunpowder." Bv 

 Professor H. Debus, Ph.D., F.R.S 361 



List of Presents 371 



No. 219.— March 2, 1882. 



List of Candidates for Election 380 



A Contribution to the Pathology of the Epidemic known as the " Salmon 

 Disease." By Professor T. H. Huxley, LL.D., F.R.S , 381 



On the Conservation of Solar Energy. By C. William Siemens, D.C.L., 

 LL.D., F.R.S., Mem. Inst. C.E 389 



March 9, 1882. 



Experiments to Determine the Value of the British Association Unit of 

 Resistance in Absolute Measure. By Lord Rayleigh, F.R.S., Professor 

 of Experimental Physics in the University of Cambridge 398 



Contributions to the Anatomy of the Central Nervous System in Verte- 

 brate Animals. Sub-section I. Teleostei. Appendix. On the Brain 

 of the Mormyridae. By Alfred Sanders, M.R.C.S 400 



