PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS. 



Part I, 1882. 



Contents. 



I. Ou the Electromotive Properties of the Leaf of Dionsea in the Excited and 

 TJnexcited States. By J. Buedon-Sandeeson, M.D., F.R.S., Professor of 

 Physiology in University College, London. 



II. Lucifer : a Study in Morphology. By W. K. Beooks, Associate in Biology 

 and Director of the Chesapeake Zoological Laboratory of the Johns Hopkins 

 University, Baltimore, Md., U.S.A. 



III. On the Structure and Development of the Skull in Sturgeons (Acipenser 



ruthenus and A. sturio). By "William Kitchen Paekeb, F.R.S. 



IV. On the Stresses caused in the Interior of the Earth by the Weight of Con- 



tinents and Mountains. By G-. H. Dabwin, E.E.S. 



Y. Experimental Determination of the Telocity of White and of Coloured Light. 

 By James Young-, LL.D., F.K.S., and Professor Gr. Eoebes. 



VI. The Bakebian Lectttbe. — Action of Free Molecules on Radiant Heat, and 

 its conversion thereby into Sound. By John Tyndall, F.R.S. 



Index to Part I. 



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