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February 4, 1904. 



Sir WILLIAM HUGGINS, K.C.B., O.M., 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. "The Reduction Division in Ferns." By R. Gregory. Com- 

 municated by Professor H. Marshall Ward, F.R.S. 



II. " Cultural Experiments with ' Biologic Forms ' of the Frysiphacece." 

 By E. S. Salmon. Communicated by Professor H. Marshall 

 Ward, F.R.S. 



III. "On the Origin of Parasitism in Fungi." By George Massee. 



Communicated by Sir W. T. Thiselton-Dyer, K.C.M.G., 

 F.R.S. 



IV. " On the Effects of joining the Cervical Sympathetic Nerve with 



the Chorda Tympani." By. Professor J. N. Langley, F.R.S., 

 and Dr. H. K. Anderson. 



V. " Conjugation of Resting Nuclei in an Epithelioma of the Mouse." 

 By Dr. E. F. Bashford and J. A. Murray. Communicated 

 by Professor J. Rose Bradford, F.R.S. 



February 11, 1904. 



Sir WILLIAM HUGGINS, K.C.B., O.M., President, followed by 

 Professor G. D. LIVEING, Vice-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. " On the Compressibilities of Oxygen, Hydrogen, Nitrogen, and 

 Carbonic Oxide between One Atmosphere and Half an 

 Atmosphere of Pressure ; and on the Atomic Weights of 

 the Elements concerned. — Preliminary Notice." By Lord 

 Rayleigh, O.M., F.R.S. 



