PEOCEEDINGS OF 

 THE R0IAL SOCIETY. 



vol. lxi. No. 370. 



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Meeting of March 11, 1897, and List of Papers read 51 



The artificial Insemination of Mammals and subsequent possible Fertilisation 

 or Impregnation of their Ova. By Walter Heaps, M.A., Trinity College, 

 Cambridge. Communicated by Francis Galton, F.R.S. . . .52 



The Comparative Physiology of the Suprarenal Capsules. By Swale Vincent, 

 M.B. (Lond.), British Medical Association Eesearch Scholar. Communi- 

 cated by E. A. Schaper, F.R.S 64 



The Origin and Destination of certain Afferent and Efferent Tracts in the 

 Medulla Oblongata. By J. S. Risien Russell, M.D., M.E.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's Square, London. Communicated by 

 Professor Victoe Hoesley, F.R.S . .73 



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. 

 Peneose, F.R.S 76 



A Study of the Phenomena and Causation of Heat-contraction of Skeletal 

 Muscle. By T. a. Brodie, M.D., and S. W. F. Richardson, M.B., B.S. 

 Communicated by W. D. Halliburton, F.R.S 78 



Some Experiments with Cathode Rays. By A. A. C. Swinton. Communi- 

 cated by Lord Kelvin .... 79 



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