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March 1, 1883. 



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List of Candidates 66 



Contribution to the Chemistry of Storage Batteries. By E. Frankland, 

 D.C.L., F.R.S 67 



March 8, 1883. 



Note on the Absorption of Ultra- Violet Eays by various Substances. By 

 G. D. Liveing, M.A., F.RS., Professor of Chemistry, and J. Dewar, 

 M.A., F.RS., Jacksonian Professor, University of Cambridge 71 



Note on the Reversal of Hydrogen Lines ; and on the Outburst of 

 Hydrogen Lines when Water is dropped into the Arc. By G. D. 

 Liveing, M.A., F.RS., Professor of Chemistry, and J. Dewar, M.A., 

 F.R.S., Jacksonian Professor, University of Cambridge 74 



Note on the Order of Reversibility of the Lithium Lines. By G. D. 

 Liveing, M.A., F.RS., Professor of Chemistry, and J. Dewar, M.A., 

 F.RS., Jacksonian Professor, University of Cambridge 76 



March 15, 1883. 



On the Changes which take place in the Deviations of the Standard 

 Compass in the Iron Armour-plated, Iron, and Composite -built Ships 

 of the Royal Navy on a considerable Change of Magnetic Latitude. 

 By Staff-Commander E. W. Creak, R.N., of the Admiralty Compass 

 Department , 77 



Atmospheric Absorption in the Infra-Red of the Solar System. By 

 Captain Abney, R.E., F.R.S., and Lieutenant-Colonel Festing, R.E 80 



An Experimental Investigation of the Circumstances which Determine 

 whether the Motion of Water shall be Direct or Sinuous, and of the 

 Law of Resistance in Parallel Channels. By Osborne Reynolds, F.R.S. 84 



List of Presents 100 



On the Action of certain Reagents upon the Coloured Blood-Corpuscles. 

 Part I. The Coloured Blood-Corpuscles of the Newt and Frog. By 

 William Stirling, M.D., Sc.D., Professor of the Institutes of Medicine, 

 and Arthur Rannie, Graduate in Medicine of the University of Aber- 

 deen (Plate 1) 114 



No. 225.— April 5, 1883. 



On a hitherto unobserved Resemblance between Carbonic Acid and Bi- 

 sulphide of Carbon. By John Tyndall, F.R.S 129 



On Electrical Motions in a Spherical Conductor. By Horace Lamb, 

 M.A., formerly Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge, Professor of 

 Mathematics in the University of Adelaide 130 



Observations on the Colouring-matters of the so-called Bile of Inverte- 

 brates, and those of the Bile of Vertebrates, and on some unusual 

 Urine Pigments, &c. By Charles A. MacMunn, B.A., M.D 132 



