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 THE ROYAL SOCIETY. 



VOL. LXXIII. No. 494. 



CONTENTS. 



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Ceoonian Lecttjee. — The Chemical Regulation of the Secretory Process. - 

 By W. M. Bayliss, F.R.S., and E. H. Starling, F.R.S. . . . 310 



Experiments on a Method of Preventing Death from Snake Bite, capable of 

 Common and Easy Practical Application. By Sir Lattdee Bettnton, 

 M.D., F.R.S., Sir Joseph Fayeeb, Bart., K.C.S.I., F.R.S., and Leonaed 

 Rogees, M.D., B.S., etc., Indian Medical Service 323 



The Effects of Changes of Temperature on the Modulus of Torsional Rigidity 

 of Metal Wires. By Feank Hoeton, D.Sc., B.A., St. John's College, 

 Cambridge ; 1851 Exhibition Research Scholar of the University of 

 Birmingham. Communicated by Professor J. J. Thomson, F.R.S. 

 (Abstract) 334 



The Sparking Distance between Electrically Charged Surfaces. — Preliminary 

 Note. By P. E. Shaw, B.A., D.Sc. Communicated by Professor J. H. 

 Poynting, F.R.S 337 



Further Note on some Additional Points in Connection with Chloroformed 

 „ Calf Vaccine. By Alan B. G-eeen, M.A., M.D. (Cantab.) Communi- 

 cated by Dr. W. H. Powee, C.B., F.R.S. . . . . . .342 



Further Experiments on the Production of Helium from Radium. By Sir 



William Ramsay, K.C.B., F.R.S., and Feedeeick Soddy, M.A. . . 346 



Corrigenda in Mr. W. Shanks's Tables " On the Number of Figures in the 

 Reciprocal of a Prime." By Lieut.-Colonel Allan Cunningham, R.E., 

 Fellow of King's College, London. Communicated by the Secretaries . 359 



A Research into the Heat Regulation of the Body by an Investigation of Death 

 Temperatures. By Edeed M. Coeneb, M.A., M.B., B.C. (Cantab.), 

 F.R.C.S., B.Sc. (Lond.), Surgeon to Out-patients, St. Thomas's Hospital, 

 and Assistant-Surgeon to the Hospital for Sick Children, Grreat Ormond 

 Street, Erasmus Wilson Lecturer, Royal College of Surgeons, and James 



E. H. Sawyee, M.A., M.D. (Oxon.), M.R.C.P., Honorary Ansesthetist to 

 the Ear and Throat Hospital, Birmingham, lately House Physician to 



St. Thomas's Hospital. Communicated by Professor J. N. Langley, F.R.S. 361 



A Note on the Action of Radium on Micro-organisms. By Alan B. G-eeen, 

 M.A., M.D. (Cantab.) Communicated by Sir Michael Fostee, K.C.B., 



F. R.S. (Plate 11) 375 



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