Proceedings. 



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March 11, 1897. 



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



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

 ordered for them. 



The following Papers were read : — 



I. "The Comparative Physiology of the Suprarenal Capsules." By 

 Swale Vincent, M.B. (Lond.), British Medical Association 

 Research Scholar. Communicated by E. A. Schafer, F.R.S. 



II. " The Origin and Destination of certain Afferent and Efferent 

 Tracts in the Medulla Oblongata." By J. S. Risien Russell, 

 M.D., M.R.C.P., Research Scholar to the British Medical 

 Association, Senior Assistant Physician to the Metropolitan 

 Hospital, and Pathologist to the National Hospital for the 

 Paralysed and Epileptic, Queen Square, London. Communi- 

 cated by Professor Victor Hoesley, F.R.S. 



III. " On the Orientation of Greek Temples and the Dates of their 



Foundation derived from Astronomical Considerations, being 

 a Supplement to a Paper published in the ' Transactions of 

 the Royal Society,' in 1893." By F. C. Penrose, F.R.S. 



IV. " Some Experiments with Cathode Rays." By A. A. C. 



Swinton. Communicated by Lord Kelvin, F.R.S. 



V. " A Study of the Phenomena and Causation of Heat-contraction 

 of Skeletal Muscle." By T. Gr. Brodie, M.D., and S. W. F. 

 Richardson, M.B., B.S. Communicated by W. D. Halli 



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