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OF 



THE ROYAL SOCIETY. 



Series B. Vol. 82. No. B 554. 



BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES. 



CONTENTS. ^ 



Address of the President, Sir ARCHIBALD GEIKIE, K.C.B., at the 

 Anniversary Meeting on November 30, 1 909 ..... 



The Velocity of Reaction in the " Absorption " of Specific Agglutinins by 

 Bacteria, and in the " Adsorption " of Agglutinins, Trypsin, and Sulphuric 

 Acid by Animal Charcoal. By GEORGES DREYER, M.A.. M.D., 

 Professor of Pathology in the University of Oxford, and J. SHOLTO C. 

 DOUGLAS, M.A., B.M., Philip Walker Student in Pathology in the 

 University of Oxford, formerly Radcliffe Travelling Fellow . , 1 68 



On the Absorption of Agglutinin by Bacteria and the Application of Physico- 

 chemical Laws thereto. By GEORGES DREYER, M.A., M.D., Professor 

 of Pathology in the University of Oxford, and J. SHOLTO C. DOUGLAS, 

 M.A., B.M., Philip Walker Student in Pathology in the University of 

 Oxford, formerly Radcliffe Travelling Fellow . . . . . '85 



Observations on the Rate of Action of Drugs (Alcohol, Chloroform, Quinine, 

 Aconitine) upon Muscle as a Function of Temperature. By V. H. VELEY, 

 F.R.S., and A. D. WALLER, M.D., F.R.S 205 



An Examination of the Physical and Physiological Properties of Tetrachlor- 



elhane and Trichlorethylene. By V. H. VELEY, F.R.S 217 



The Photochemical Formation of Formaldehyde in Green Plants. By 

 S. B. SCHRYVER, D.Sc, Ph.D., Lecturer on Physiological Chemistry in 

 University College, London 226 



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