PROCEEDINGS 



OF 



THE ROYAL SOCIETY. 



February 25, 1897. 



The LORD LISTER, F.R.C.S., D.C.L., President, in the Chair. 



A List of the Presents received was laid on the table, and thanks 

 ordered for them. 



The following Papers were read : — 



I. " 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. 



II. " On the Relation between Magnetic Stress and Magnetic 

 Deformation in Mckel." By E. Taylor Jones, D.Sc. Com- 

 municated by Professor Andrew Gray, F.R.S. 



III. " On the Relations between the Cerebellar and other Centres 



(namely Cerebral 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. 



IV. " On the Action of Light on Diastase and its Biological Signifi- 



cance." By J. Reynolds Green, Sc.D., F.R.S., Professor of 

 Botany to the Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain. 



V. " Fragmentation in Lineus gesserensis." By Alex. Brown, M.B., 

 B.Sc, M.A., Lecturer in Zoology, and Senior Assistant in the 

 Natural History Department, University of Aberdeen. Com- 

 municated by Professor McIntosh, F.R.S. 



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