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No. 324. 



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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 (continued from 

 vol. 1, p. 246). November 30, 1891, to March 31, 1893 318 



Report of the Kew Committee for the Year ending December 31, 1892 322 



April 20, 1893. 



Magnetic Viscosity. By J. Hopkinson, D.Sc, F.R.S., E. Wilson, and 

 F. Lydall , 352 



On the Spectrum of Thallium, and its Relation to the Homologous 

 Spectra of Indium and Gallium. By Henry Wilde, F.R.S 369 



The Potential of an Anchor Ring. By F. W. Dyson, M.A., Fellow of 

 Trinity College, Cambridge, Isaac Newton Student in the University 

 of Cambridge 372 



Analogy of Sound and Colour. — Comparison of the Seven Colours of 

 the Rainbow with the Seven Notes of the Musical Scale, as de- 

 termined by the Monochord, and of the Wave-lengths of Colour and 

 Sound. By J. D. Macdonald, M.D., F.R.S. [Title only'] 375 



List of Presents 376 



April 27, 1893. 



On the Results of an Examination of the Orientation of a number of 

 Greek Temples, with a view to connect these Angles with the Ampli- 

 tudes of certain Stars at the times these Temples were founded, and 

 an endeavour to derive therefrom the Dates of their Foundation by 

 consideration of the Changes produced upon the Right Ascension 

 and Declination of the Stars arising from the Precession of the 

 Equinoxes. By F. C. Penrose, F.R.A.S 379 



On the Coloration of the Skins of Fishes, especially of Pleuronectidse. 

 By J. T. Cunningham, M.A. Oxon., Naturalist on the Staff of the 

 Marine Biological Association, and Charles A. MacMunn, M.A., 

 M.D 



The Electric Organ of the Skate : Note on an Electric Centre in the 

 Spinal Cord. By J. C. Ewart, M.D., Regius Professor of Natural 

 History, University of Edinburgh 



List of Presents 



No. 325.— May 4, 1893. 



List of Candidates recommended for Election 394 



On the Thickness and Electrical Resistance of Thin Liquid Films. By 

 A. W. Reinold, M.A., F.R.S., Professor of Physics in the Royal 

 Naval College, Greenwich, and A. W. Riicker, M.A., F.R.S., Pro- 

 fessor of Physics in the Royal College of Science, London 394 



Organic Oximides : a Research on their Pharmacology. By H. W. 

 Pomfret, M.D., F.R.C.S., late Berkeley Fellow at the Owens College 398 



On the Alleged Increase of Cancer. By George King, F.I.A., F.F.A., 

 and Arthur Newsholme, M.D., M.R.C.P 405 



Further Experimental Note on the Correlation of Action of Antagonistic 

 Muscles. By C. S. Sherrington, M.A., M.D 407 



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