and Vignai. On the biliary secretimi with reference to the action of Cholagogues. — Dudgeon. Spe- 

 cimen of auriferous quartz. — Gayley. On a problem of avrangeraents. — Sang. On. the construction 

 of the canon of sines, for the decimai division of the quadrant. — Id. On the precautions to be 

 taken in recording and using the records of originai computations. — Duns. On an unnamed palseozoic 

 annelid. — Muir. Note on an infinitade of operations. — Id. Note on determinant expressions for 

 the sum of a harmonical progression. — Tali. Sevenfold knottines. — Geikie. Notice of a saline 

 water from the volcanic rocks of Linlithgow. — M. c Intosh. On the arrangement and relations of 

 the great nerve-cords in the marine annelids. — Muir. On professor Tait's problem of arran- 

 gement. — Tait. On amphicheiral forms and their relations. — Gayley. Note on M. r Muir's solution of 

 a «Problem of arrangement». — Stevenson. Notice of recent earthquake shocks in Argjieshire 

 in 1S77. — Wyville Thomson. On the structure and relations of the genus Holopus. — Buchan. On 

 the diurnal oscillations of the barometer. — Tennent. Why the barometer does not always indicate 

 real vertical pressure. — Tait. Note on an identity. — Knott, Gordon and Smith. The thermo-electric 

 properties of cobalt. — Tait. Notice of some recent atmospheric phenomena. — Traquair. On new 

 and little-known fossil fishes from the Edinburg districi — Id. On the cranial osteology of Rhizo- 

 dopsis, and on some points in the structure of Ehizodus. 



tProceedings of the ftoyal Society. Voi. XXVI n. 181, 182, 183. London, 1877. 8.° 

 N. 181. Romants. Further observations on the modification of the excitability of motor nerves 

 produced by injury. — Whipple. On the temperature-correction and induction-coefficients of magnets. — 

 7Wòe. Distribution of the radicals of electrolytes upon an insulated metallic conductor. — Spotliswoode. 

 On hyperjacobian surfaces and curves. — De La Rtie and Muller. On the length of the spark from 

 a voltaic battery in different gases at ordinary atmospheric pressures. — Tyndall. Further researches 

 on the deportment and vital resistance of putrefactive and infective organisms, from a physical point 

 of view. — Broivn. The physical properties of homologues and isomers. — Rayleigh. On the ampli- 

 tele of sound-waves. — Strachey. On the alleged correspondence of the rainfall at Madras with the 

 sun-spot period, and on the true criterion of periodicity in a series of variable quantities. — N. 182. Hog- 

 gan. On the minute structure and relationships of the lymphatics of the mammalian skin , and on 

 the ultimate distribution of nerves to the epidermis and subepidermic lymphatics. — Hopkinson, Re- 

 fractive indices of glass. — Id. Electrostatic capacity of glass. — Cliflon. On the difference of po- 

 tential produced by the contact of different substances. — Pavy. The physiology of sugar in relation 

 to the blood. — Spottiswoode. Photographic image of stratified discharges. — De La Rue and Muller. 

 On the lenght of the spark between two spherical surfaces of the chloride-of-silver battery. — Schor- 

 lemmer. On the normal paraffina. — Lewis. The relationships of the nerve-cells of the Cortex to the 

 lymphatic system of the brain. — Reinold and Rucker. On the Thickness of soap film». — Pavy. The 

 physiology of sugar in relation to the blood. — Tyndall. Note on Dr. Burdou Sanderson's latest views 

 of ferments and germs. — Thomson. Experimental demonstration in respect to the origin of win- 

 dings of rivers in alluvial plains, and to the mode of flow of water round bends of pipes. — Russell 

 and Maskelyne. An attempt to form doublé salta of nitrate of Silver and other nitrates. — Russell. On 

 certain definite integrals. — N. 183. Sorby. On some hitherto midescribed optical properties of doiibly 

 refracting crystals. Preliminary notice. — Stokes. On the foci of lines seen through a crystalline 

 piate. — Haughton. On the probable age of the continent of Asia and Europe; and on the absolute 

 measure of geological time. — Tomlinson. On the increase in resistance to the passage of an electric 

 current produced on certain wires by stretching. 



fProgramme des cours de l'Université de Genève, pendant le deui semestres de l'an- 

 née 1877-78. Genève, 1877. 8.° 



1-Records of the Geological Survey of India. Voi. I-X 1877. Calcutta, 1870-77. 4.° 

 Stanford. Geological notes on the great Indian Desert between Sind an Eàjpùtana. — Feisl- 

 mantel. On the occurrence of the cretaceous genus Omplialia near Namcho Lake, Tibet, about 75 m'ies 

 north of Lhassa. — Id. Note on Estheria in the Gondwana formation. — Lydckker. Notices of new 

 and other vertebrata from indian tertiary and secondary rock». — Theobald. Description of a new 

 Emydine from the upper tertiaries of the northern Punjab. — Medlicott. Observations on under- 

 ground temperature. — King. Note on the rocks of the Lower Godàvari. — Ball. On the Atgarh 



