vii 



Vage 



Note on the Eecent and Coming Total Solar Eclipses. By J. Norman 

 Lockyer, F.R.S 391 



November 30, 1882. 



Anniversary Meeting. 



Report of Auditors 301 



List of Fellows deceased since last Anniversary 301 



elected 302 



Address of the President 302 



Presentation of the Medals 327 



Election of Council and Officers 330 



Financial Statement 331-333 



Trust Funds 334-337 



Account of the Appropriation of the sum of £4,000 (the Government 

 Grant) annually voted by Parliament to the Royal Society, to be 

 employed in aiding the advancement of Science 338 



Account of Grants from the Donation Fund 341 



Report of the Kew Committee 343 



December 7, 1882. 



On the Alterations of the Excitability of the Sensory Nerves of Man by 

 the Passage of a Galvanic Current. By A. Waller, M.D., and A. de 

 WatteviUe, M.A., B.Sc 366 



Preliminary Notice of an Investigation into the Coagulation of the Peri- 

 visceral Fluid of the Sea-Urchin. By E. A. Schafer, F.R.S 370 



Preliminary Note on the Structure, Development, and Affinities of 

 Phoronis. By W. H. Caldwell, B.A., Caius College, Cambridge, De- 

 monstrator of Zoology „ 371 



December 14, 1882. 



On the Development of Renilla. By Edmund B. Wilson, Ph.D 384 



On the Morphology and the Development of the Perithecium of Meliola, 

 a Genus of Tropical Epiphyllous Fungi. By H. Marshall Ward, B.A., 

 Fellow of Owens College, Victoria University ; late Cryptogamist to 

 the Ceylon Government 388 



Note on a Discovery, as yet unpublished, by the late Professor F. M. 

 Balfour, concerning the Existence of a Blastopore, and on the Origin 

 of the Mesoblast in the Embryo of Peripatus Capensis. By Professor 

 Moseley, F.R.S., and Adam Sedgwick, M.A., Fellow of Trinity College, 

 Cambridge , 390 



