— CXLIX — 



Transactions of the royal Society of Edinburgh. XXXIII, 3; XXXV, 1, 2, 3, 4. 

 Edinburgh, 1888/90. 



XXXIII, 3. Cunningham. The Polychaeta Sedentaria of the Firth und 

 Forth. — XXXV, 1. Aitken. On the Number of Dust Particles in the Atmosphere. — 

 Geiìde. The History of Volcanic Action during the Tertiary Period in the British Isles. — 

 Piazzi Smyth. Mean Scottish Meteorology for the last Thirty-two Tears. — li. Eight 

 Years' Observations of the New Earth Thennometers at the Eoyal Observatory, Edin- 

 burgh, 1879-1888. — Kidston. On Neuropteris plicata, Sternberg, and N e ii- 

 ropteris recti nervis, Kidston, n. sp. — Id. On the Fossil Flora of the Stafford- 

 shire Coal Fields. — Cadell. Esperimentai Researches in Mountain Building. — XXXV, 2. 

 Ilelme. Histological Observations on the Muscular Fibre and Connective Tissue of the 

 Uterus during Pregnancy and the Puerperium. — Knott. On some Relations between 

 Magnetismi and Twist in Iron and Nickel. Part I. — Kidston. On the Fossil Plants in the 

 Ravenhead Collection in the Free Library and Museum, Liverpool. — Id. On some Fossil 

 Plants from Teilia Quarry, Gwaenysgor, near Prestatyn, Flintshire. — Dittmar. On the 

 Behaviour of the Hydrates and Carbonates of the Alkali-Metals, and of Barium, at High 

 Temperatures, and on the Properties of Lithia and the Atomic Weight of Lithium. — 

 Plarr. On the Determination of the Curve, on one of the Coordinate Planes, which forms 

 the Outer Limit of the Positions of the Point of Contact of an Ellipsoid of Revolution 

 which always touches the Three Planes of Reference. — Brady. On Ostracoda collectcd 

 by H. B. Brady, Esq., LL.D., F.R.S., in the South Sea Islands. — Letts and Blake. On 

 Benzyl Phosphines and their Derivatives. — Beddard. On the Anatomy, Histology, and 

 Affinities of Phreoryctes. — Turner. On the Placentation of Halicore Dugong. — Little. 

 Non-Alternate ± Knots, of Orders Eight and Nine. — XXXV, 3. M°Intosh. On the 

 Development and Life Histories of the Teleostean Food and other Fishes. - — XXXV, 4. 

 Mitchell. On the Thermal Conductivity and Specific Heat of Manganese-Steel. — Fraser. 

 Strophanthus hispidus: its Naturai History, Chemistry, and Pharmacology. — Tait. On 

 the Foundations of the Kinetic Theory of Gases. — M'Laren. On Systems of Solutions of 

 Homogeneous and Central Equations of the nth Degree and of two or more Variables ; with 

 a Discussion of the Loci of such Equations. 



Transactions (Philosophical) of the Eoyal Society for 1889. A. B. London, 1890. 



A. Darwin. On the Mechanical Conditions of a Swarm of Meteorites, and on Theories 

 of Cosmogony. — Forsyth. A Class of Functional Invariants. — Abney. Total Eclipse of 

 the Sun observed at Caroline Island, on 6 th May, 1883. — Ramsay. On Evaporation and 

 Dissociation. Part VIII. A Study of the Thermal Properties of Propyl Alcohol. — Boys. The 

 Radio-Micrometer. — Darwin. The Waves on a Rotating Liquid Spheroid of Finite 

 Ellipticity. — Eiving and Loto. On the Magnetisation of Iron and other Magnetic Metals 

 in very Strong Fields. — Conroy. Some Observations on the Araount of Light Reflected 

 and Transmitted by certain Kinds of Glass. — Darioin and Maunder. On the Total Solar 

 Eclipse of August 29, 1886. — Perry. Report of the Observations of the Total Solar Eclipse 

 of August 29, 1886. — Abney and Thorpe. On the Determination of the Photornetric 

 Intensity of the Coronai Light during the Solar Eclipse of August 28-29, 1886. — 

 Turner. Report of the Observations of the Total Eclipse of August 29, 1886, made at 

 Grenville, in the Island of Grenada. — Mallet. Revision of the. Atomic "Weight of Gold. — 

 Hopkinson. Magnetic and other Physical Properties of Iron at a High Temperature. — 

 jSchuster. The Diurnal Variation of Terrestrial Magnetism. — B. Laices and Gilbert. On 

 the present Position of the Question of the Sources of the Nitro gen of Vegetation; with 

 some new Results, and preliminary Notices of new Lines of Investigation. — Langley and 

 Fletcher. On the Secretion of Saliva, chiefiy on the Secretion of Salts in it. — Williamson. On 



