CONTENTS (continued). 



November 23, 1882. 



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I. Monthly Means of the Highest and Lowest Diurnal Temperatures of the 

 "Water of the Thames, and Comparison with the corresponding Tempe- 

 ratures of the Air at the Eoyal Observatory, Greenwich. By Sir 

 GrEOEG-E Biddell Aiey, K.C.B., F.B.S., late Astronomer Eoyal . . 276 



II. Experimental Determinations of Magnetic Susceptibility and of Maximum 



Magnetisation in Absolute Measure. By B. Shida, Thomson Experi- 

 mental Scholar, University, Glasgow ....... 285 



III. On Abel's Theorem and Abelian Functions. By A. E. Foe&yth, B.A., 



Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge, Professor of Mathematics in 

 University College, Liverpool 288 



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



Lockyeb, F.E.S 291 



November 30, 1882. 

 ANNIYEESAEY 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 Eoyal Society, to be employed in 

 aiding the Advancement of Science 



Account of Grants from the Donation Fund 



Report of the Kew Committee * 



December 7, 1882. 



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



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

 Watteville, M.A., B.Sc. 



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



visceral Fluid of the Sea-Urchin. By E. A. Schafeb, F.E.S. . 



III. Preliminary Note on the Structure, Development, and Affinities of Pho- 

 ronis. By W. H. Caedwell, B.A., Caius College, Cambridge, Demon- 

 strator of Zoology 



