CONTENTS {continued). 

 March 1, 1883. 



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List of Candidates , . . . . .66 



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



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



March 8, 1883. 



I. Notes on the Absorption of Ultra- Yiolet Rays by various Substances. By 

 Gr. D. Liveing, M.A., F.R.S. , Professor of Chemistry, and J. Dewar, 

 M.A., F.R.S., Jacksonian Professor, University of Cambridge . . 71 



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

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

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

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



III. Note on the Order of Reversibility of the Lithium Lines. By Gr. D. 

 Liveing, M.A., F.R.S., Professor of Chemistry, and J. Dewae, M.A., 

 F.R.S., Jacksonian Professor, University of Cambridge. ... 76 



March 15, 1883. 



I. 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 



II. Atmospheric Absorption in the Infra-Red of the Solar Spectrum. By 



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



III. 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 



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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 Aberdeen 

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