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On certain Media for the Cultivation of the Bacillus of Tubercle. By 

 Arthur Eansonie, M.D., F.E.S 187 



Summary of Professor Edgeworth David's Preliminary Eeport on the 

 Eesults of the Boring in the Atoll of Funafuti. Communicated by 

 Professor T. G. Bonney, F.E.S., Vice-Chairman of the Coral Beef 

 Boring Committee 200 



No. 382. 



Anniversary Meeting, November 30, 1897 202 



Meeting of December 9, 1897, with List of Vice-Presidents and List of 

 Papers read 203 



On the Densities of Carbonic Oxide, Carbonic Anhydride, and Nitrous 

 Oxide. By Lord Eayleigh, F.E.S 204 



On the Application of Harmonic Analysis to the Dynamical Theory of 

 the Tides. Part II. On the general Integration of Laplace's 

 Dynamical Equations. By S. S. Hough, M.A., Fellow of St. John's 

 College and Isaac Newton Student in the University of Cambridge. 

 Communicated by Professor G. H. Darwin, F.E.S 209 



On Methods of making Magnets independent of Changes of Tem- 

 perature ; and some Experiments upon Abnormal or Negative 

 Temperature Coefficients in Magnets. By J. Eeginald Ash worth, 

 B.Sc. Communicated by Arthur Schuster, F.E.S 210 



The Electric Conductivity of Nitric Acid. By V. H. Veley, M.A., 

 F.E.S., and J. J. Manley, Daubeny Curator of the Magdalen College 

 Laboratory, Oxford 223 



On the Eefractivities of Air, Oxygen, Nitrogen, Argon, Hydrogen, and 

 Helium. By Professor William Eamsay, Ph.D., LL.D., Sc.D., F.E.S., 

 and Morris W. Travers, B.Sc 225 



On the Openings in the Wall of the Body-cavity of Vertebrates. By 

 Edward J. Bles, B.Sc. (Lond.), King's College, Cambridge. Com- 

 municated by Dr. Hans Gadow, F.E.S 232 



On the Calculation of the Coefficient of Mutual Induction of a Circle and 

 a Coaxial Helix, and of the Electromagnetic Force between a Helical 

 Current and a Uniform Coaxial Circular Cvlindrical Current Sheet- 

 By J. Viriamu Jones, F.E.S 1 247 



No. 383. 



A Note on some further Determinations of the Dielectric Constants of 

 Organic Bodies and Electrolytes at very low Temperatures. By 

 James Dewar, M.A., LL.D., F.E.S., Fullerian Professor of Chemistry 

 in the Eoyal Institution, and J. A. Fleming, M.A., D.Sc, F.E.S., 

 Professor of Electrical Engineering in University College, London .... 250 



Meeting of December 16, 1897, and List of Papers read 267 



On a Method of Determining the Eeactions at the Points of Support 

 of Continuous Beams. By George Wilson, M.Sc, Demonstrator in 

 Engineering in the Whitworth Laboratory of the Owens College, 

 Manchester. Communicated by Professor Osborne Eeynolds, F.E.S. 268 



