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interference-fringes, and on their application to determine wether a displacement-Current 

 of electricity involves a motion of translation of the electro-magnetic medium. — Leahy. 

 On the mutuai action of oscillatory twists in an elastic medium as applied to a vibratory 

 theory of electricity. 



* Transactions of the Connecticut Academy of arts and sciences. Voi VII, 1. 

 New Haven, 1886. 



De Forest. Gn the Law of Error in Target-Shooting. — Moore, Jr. Extensions of cer- 

 tain Theorems of Clifford and of Cayley in the Geometry of n Dimensions. — Little. On 

 Knots, with a Census for Order Ten. — Chettinden and Cummins. The Amylolytic Action 

 of Diastase of Malt, as modified by various Conditions, studied quantitatively. — Chitten- 

 den and Painter. Influence of certain Therapeutic and Toxic Agents on the Amylolytic 

 Action of Saliva. — Id. and Alien. Influence of various Inorganic and Alkaloid Salts on 

 the Proteolytic Action of Pepsin-Hydrochloric Acid. — lei. and Cummins. Influence of va- 

 rious Therapeutic and Toxic Substances of the Proteolytic Action of the Pancreatic Fer- 

 ment. — Id. and Martin. Influence of Temperature on the Kelative Amylolytic Action 

 of Saliva and the Diastase of Malt. — Id. and Cummins. Influence of Bile, Bile Salts and 

 Bile Acids on Amylolytic and Proteolytic Action — Id. and Smith. Absorption of Arsenic 

 by the Brains. — Id. and Culhert. Influence of Potassium and Ammonium Bromides on 

 Metabolism. — Id. and Wliiteliouse . Influence of Cinchonidine Sulphate on Metabolism. — 

 Id. and Lambert. The Post-mortem Formation of Sugar in the Liver in the presence of 

 Peptones. — lùìhne and Chittenden. Globulin and Globulose Bodies. — Id. id. Peptones. — 

 Chittenden. On the Dehydration of Glucose in the Stomach and Intestines. 



• Transactions of the Edinburgh Geological Society. Voi. V, 2. Edinburgh, 1887. 



Lindstròm. Notice of a Silurian Scorpion. — Ilunter. Notes on a new Fossil Scor- 

 pion. — Ferguson. Notices of Iron Ore Deposits in Aberdeend and Banff. — Reid. On the 

 Origin of Granitic Bocks. — Richardson. On Canadian and Scottish Glacial Geology. — 

 Id. On the " Gled Stane " near Pitlochry. — Tait Kinnear. On Scorpion Bemains in 

 Fife. — Kinaìian. On American Lake Terraces and Boads of Glenroy. — Vallace. On the 

 Geology of Eirkhill. — Morrison. On the Pre-Cambrian Conglomerate of Levis. — 

 Melvin. On the Parallel Roads of Lochaber. — Morrison. On the Terraces at Achnasheen, 

 Ross-shire. — Anderson. On a new Crustacean from Fife. — Johnstone. On the Action of 

 Carbonio Acid Water on Minerals and Bocks. — Rink. On Recent Explorations in Green- 

 land. — Simpson. On Reindeer Bones from the Pentland Hills. — Ilenderson. On Bein- 

 dees Bemains from the Pentland Hills. — Macadam. On Red Deer Horns from the Nith. — 

 Romanis. Notes on Upper Burmah. — Somervail. On the Archaean Gneiss of Ross and 

 Sutherland. — Anderson. On Fish Remains from Abden. — Macadam. Notice of new Fos- 

 liferous Bed in Arran. — Grant Wilson and Macadam. On Diatomaceous Deposits in 

 Skye. — Taylor. Obituary Notice of C. W. Peach. — Morrison. On a Minor Basin of the 

 Old Red in Mid-Ross (Abstract). 



1 Transactions of the Manchester Geological Society. Voi. XIX, 5-7. Manche- 

 ster, 1887. 



Kinahan. On Marsh (Naturai) Gas. — Rendali. The Carboniferous Volcanoes of Great 

 Britain. — Ward. On the Subsidences in the Salt Districts of Cheshire : Their History 

 and Cause. 



"Transactions (The) of the Academy of sciences of St Louis. Voi. IV, 4. 

 St Louis, 1886. 



Spencer. Niagara Fossils. — Broadhead. Missouri Geological Surveys. — Luedeking. 

 On the Specific Heats, Specific Gravities, and the Heats of Hydration of the Acids of the 



