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PEOCEEDINGS OF 



THE ROYAL SOCIETY. 



VOL. LI. 



No. 313. 



PAGE 



. 443 



List of Candidates recommended for Election 



I. Transmission of Sunlight through the Earth's !8tfeia^hejce^ -*-¥^rt II. 

 Scattering at different Altitudes. By Captain W. de W. Abney, C.B., 

 D.C.L., F.R.S . . . . 444 



II. On the Simultaneity of Magnetic Variations at different places on occa- 

 sions of Magnetic Disturbance, and on the relation between Magnetic 

 and Earth Current Phenomena. By William Ellis, F.R.A.S., Super- 

 intendent of the Magnetical and Meteorological Department, Eoyal 

 Observatory, Greenwich 445 



III. Ou the Liquation of Metals of the Platinum Group- By Edwaed 



Matthet, F.C.S., F.S.A., Ass. Eoy. Sch. Mines 447 



IV. The Potential of an Anchor Ring. By F. W. Dyson, Fellow of Trinity 



College, Cambridge 448 



V. On the Residues of Powers of Numbers for any Composite Modulus, Real 



or Complex. By Geoitbey T. Bennett, B.A. . . ... . 452 



List of Presents 453 



May 12, 1892. 



I. Transformers. By John Perey, D.Sc, F.R.S 455 



II. On the Probable Effect of the Limitation of the Number of Ordinary 



Fellows elected into the Royal Society to Fifteen in each Year on the 

 eventual total Number of Fellows. By Lieut.- General R. Steachey, 

 R.E., F.R.S. . . .463 



III. On the Shoulder Girdle in Ichthyosauria and Sauropterygia. By J. W. 



Htjlke, F.R.S 471 



IV. On the Embryology of Angiopteris evecta, Hofm. By J. Beetland 



Faemee, M.A., Fellow of Magdalen College, Oxford .... 471 



V. Note on Excretion in Sponges. By Geoege Biddee .... 474 

 List of Presents . . . . 484 



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