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towards the rapid removal from the system of the accumulated bile 
salts. 
N.B . — While this investigation was being carried out, and after 
the first specimen of the peculiar fatty degeneration had been 
obtained, there appeared in Robin’s “ Journal de l’Anatomie et de la 
Physiologie ” for December 1874 an account of similar experiments 
by MM. Felz and Ritter, professors in Nancy. These gentlemen 
remarked the same structural changes in the liver and kidneys as 
have just been described. They also noticed the diarrhoea which 
follows the injection, and a slight increase in the nitrogen elimin- 
ated by the urine. On some points, however, their results are at 
variance with those recorded in this paper. 
While the priority in this investigation belongs without question 
to MM. Feltz and Ritter, yet it will be seen from the dates of the 
above experiments that the most important results were obtained 
previous to the appearance of their valuable paper. 
4. Preliminary Note on the Auatomy of the Pia Mater. 
By Dr J. Batty Tuke. 
5. Note on the Physiological Action of Light. By 
James Dewar, Esq., and Dr M‘ Kendrick. 
The following Gentlemen were elected Fellows of the 
Society : — 
John Christie, Esq., Cowden, Dollar. 
James Thomson, Esq., LL.D., University, Glasgow, 
Michael Scott, Memb. Inst. C.E. 
William Jack, M.A., Glasgow. 
James Bryce, M.A., LL.D. 
A ballot having been taken, Dr Alexander Wood was 
re-admitted a Fellow of the Society. 
