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SERIES B. VOL. LXXXIL 



No. B 552.— December 20, 1909. 



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Experimental Researches on Vegetable Assimilation and Respiration. V. — A 

 Critical Examination of Sachs' Method for using Increase of Dry Weight as a 

 Measure of Carbon Dioxide Assimilation in Leaves. By D. Thoday, M.A., 

 Mackinnon Student of the Royal Society, late Frank Smart Student of the 

 University of Cambridge. Communicated by Dr. F. F. Blackmau, F.R.S 1 



Sleeping Sickness in Uganda. — Duration of the Infectivity of the Glossina palpaLis 

 after the Removal of the Lake-shore Population. By Colonel Sir David Bruce, 



C. B., F.R.S., Army Medical Service ; Captains A. E. Hamerton, D.S.O., and 

 H. R. Bateman, Royal Army Medical Corps ; and Captain F. P. Mackie, Indian 

 Medical Service. (Sleeping Sickness Commission of the Royal Society, 

 1908-09) 56 



Glossina palpalis as a Carrier of Trypanosoma vivax in Uganda. By Colonel 

 Sir David Bruce, C.B., F.R.S., Army Medical Service ; Captains A. E. 

 Hamerton, D.S.O., and H. R. Bateman, Royal Army Medical Corps ; and 

 Captain F. P. Mackie, Indian Medical Service. (Sleeping Sickness Commission 

 of the Royal Society, 1908-09) 63 



On the Presence of Hajm-agglutinins, Haem-opsonins, and Hsemolysins in the Blood 

 obtained from Infectious and Non-Infectious Diseases in Man. (Third Report.) 

 By Leonard S. Dudgeon, F.R.C.P. Lond., and H. A. F. Wilson. Communicated 

 by Dr. F. W. Mott, F.R.S 67 



No. B 553.— January 14, 1910. 



The Germicidal Action of Metals and its Relation to the Production of Peroxide of 

 Hydrogen. By Allan C. Rankin, M.D., Demonstrator in Bacteriology, McGill 

 University, and Assistant in Bacteriology, Royal Victoria Hospital, Montreal. 

 Communicated by J. G. Adami, F.R.S 78 



Gametogenesis of the Gall-Fly, Neuroterus l&titicularis (Spathegaster baccarum). — 

 Part I. By Leonard Doncaster, M.A., Lecturer on Zoology, Birmingham 

 University. Communicated by Prof. W. Bateson, F.R.S. (Plates 1-3) 88 



Preliminary Note upon the Cell Lamination of the Cerebral Cortex of Echidna, with 

 an Eimmeration of the Fibres in the Cranial Nerves. By Edgar Scliuster, 



D. Sc, Fellow of New College (Pathological Laboratory, Claybury Asylum, 

 Essex, and Department of Comparative Anatomy, University Museum, Oxford). 

 Communicated by Dr. F. W. Mott, F.R.S. (Plates 4 and 5) 113 



