CONTENTS. 



VOL. LXI. 



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No. 369. 



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Meeting of February 25, 1897, and List of Papers read 1 



Note on the Dielectric Constant of Ice and Alcohol at very Low 

 Temperatures. By James Dewar, M.A., LL.D., F.R.S., Fullerian 

 Professor of Chemistry in the Royal Institution, London, and J . A. 

 Fleming, M.A., D.Sc., F.R.S., Professor of Electrical Engineering in 

 University College, London 2 



On the Relation between Magnetic Stress and Magnetic Deformation 

 in Nickel. By E. Taylor Jones, D.Sc. Communicated by Professor 

 Andrew Gray, F.R.S 19 



On the Relations between the Cerebellar and other Centres (namely Cere- 

 bral and Spinal) with especial Reference to the Action of Antagonistic 

 Muscles. (Preliminary Account.) By Max Lowenthal, M.D. (Wiirz.), 

 M.R.C.P., and Victor Horsley, F.R.S., F.R.C.S 20 



On the Action of Light on Diastase and its Biological Significance. By 

 J. Reynolds Green, Sc.D., F.R.S. , Professor of Botany to the Pharma- 

 ceutical Society of Great Rritain 25 



Fragmentation in Lin°us gesserensis. By Alex. Brown, M.B., B.Sc, 

 M.A., Lecturer in Zoology, and Senior Assistant in the Natural 

 History Department, University of Aberdeen. Communicated by 

 Professor Mcintosh, F.R.S 28 



Meeting of March 4, 1897, and List of Candidates for Election 29 



List of Papers read,,.. 30 



Experiments on the Absence of Mechanical Connexion between Ether 

 and Matter. By Oliver Lodge, D.Sc, F.R.S., Professor of Physics, 

 University College, Liverpool 31 



Second Report on a Series of Specimens of the Deposits of the Nile 

 Delta, obtained by Boring Operations undertaken by the Royal 

 Society. By John W. Judd, C.B., LL.D., F.R.S., Professor of 

 Geology in the Royal College of Science. Communicated by desire 

 of the Delta Committee 32 



The Palaeolithic Deposits at Hitchin and their Relation to the Glacial 

 Epoch. By Clement Reid, F.L.S., F.G.S., of the Geological Survey 

 of the United Kingdom. Communicated by Sir Archibald Geikie, 

 F.R.S 40 



Luminosity and Photometry. By John Berry Haycraft, M.D., Uni- 

 versity College, Cardiff. Communicated by Professor Schafer, F.R.S. 49 



