PEOCEEDINGS OF 

 TIE ROYAL SOC 



VOL. Lxn. 



No. 385. 



CONTENTS. 



PAGE 



Researches in Vortex Motion. Part III. On Spiral or Oyrostatic Vortex 



Aggregates. By W. M. Hicks, F.R.S 332 



The Pharmacology of Aconitine, Diacetylaconitine, Benzaconine, and Aconine, 

 considered in Relation to their Chemical Constitution. By J. Theodore 

 Cash, M.D., F.R.S., and Wtudham R. Dunstan, M.A., F.R.S. . . 338 



Meeting of February 10, 1898, and List of Papers read 348 



Contributions to the Theory of Alternating Currents. By W. Gr. Rhodes, 



M.Sc. (Vict.). Communicated by Professor Arthur Schuster, F.R.S. . 348 



The Development and Morphology of the Vascular System in Mammals. 

 I. The Posterior End of the Aorta and the Iliac Arteries. By Alfred 

 H. Young, M.B., F.R.C.S., and Arthur Robinson, M.D. Communi- 

 cated by Sir William Turner, F.R.S 350 



Further Observations upon the Comparative Chemistry of the Suprarenal 

 Capsules, with Remarks upon the Non-existence of Suprarenal Medulla 

 in Teleostean Fishes. By B. Moore, M.A., Sharpey Scholar, University 

 College, London, and Swale Vincent, M.B. (Lond.), British Medical 

 Association Research Scholar. Communicated by Professor E. A. 

 Schafer, F.R.S 352 



The Effects of Extirpation of the Suprarenal Bodies of the Eel (Anguilla 

 anguilla). By Swale Vincent, M.B. (Lond.), British Medical Associa- 

 tion Research Scholar. Communicated by Professor E. A. Schafer, 

 F.R.S. .' 354 



The Kelvin Quadrant Electrometer as a Wattmeter and Voltmeter. By 



Ernest Wilson. Communicated by Dr. J. Hopkinson, F.R.S. . 356 



The Magnetic Properties of almost pure Iron. By Ernest Wilson. Com- 

 municated by Dr. J. Hopkinson, F.R.S . . 369 



On a new Method of determining the Vapour Pressures of Solutions. By 



E. B. H. Wade, B.A. Communicated by Professor J. J. Thomson, 



F. R.S. 376 



Obituary Notice : — 



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March 4, 1898. 



