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On tlie Thermoelectric Properties of Iron. By Professor Tait, . 
On the Constitution of Dielectrics. By Peddie, Esq., B.Sc., 
On Mr Omond’s Observations of Fog- Bows. By Professor Tait, 
Letter from the Astronomer-Royal on the Fall of a Part of the Cliff below 
Nelson’s Monument, . . . . . . . 
Monday, SOth January 1888. 
On the Causes of Movements in General Prices. By Professor Nicholson, 
A New Method for Preserving the Blood. in a Fluid State outside the Body. 
By Professor John Berry Haycraft and E. W. Carrier, M.B., . 
The Formula of Morphine. By R. B. Dott, Esq., F.I.C., and Ralph Stock- 
man, M.D., ......... 
On the Fossil Flora of the Staffordshire Coal Fields. I. The Fossil Plants 
collected during the Sinking of the Shaft of the Hamstead Colliery, Great 
Barr, near Birmingham. By Robert Kidston, Esq., F.R.S.E., F.G.S., 
On a Monochromatic Rainbow. By John Aitken, Esq., 
On Neuro]}teris plicata, Sternb., and Neuropteris rectinervis, Kidston. By Robert 
Kidston, F.R.S.E., F.G.S., . . 
Reflex Spinal Scratching Movements in some Vertebrates. By Professor John 
Berry Haycraft, . . ... 
Reply to Professor Boltzmann. By Professor Tait, .... 
Monday, 6th Fehruary 1888. 
On a Mode of Exhibiting the Action of the Semicircular Canals of the Internal 
Ear. By Professor Crum Brown, . . . . 
On the Temperature and Currents in the Lochs of the West of Scotland, as 
affected by Winds. By Dr John Murray, . 
Note on the Influence of Pressure on the Solubility of Carbonate of Lime in Sea 
Water containing Free Carbonic Acid. By W. G. Reid, Esq. Communi- 
cated by Dr John Murray, . 
On the Distribution of Carbonate of Lime on the Floor, and in the Waters of the 
Ocean. By Dr John Murray, ...... 
On the Number of Dust Particles in the Atmosphere. By John Aitken, Esq., 
Monday, 20th Fehruary 1888. 
Preliminary Note on the Duration of Impact. By Professor Tait, 
A Bathymetrical Survey of the Chief Perthshire Lochs, and their relation to the . 
Glaciation of the ■ District. By James Grant Wilson, Esq., H.M. Geo- 
logical Survey. Communicated by Dr Archibald Geikie, F.R.S., 
Director-General' of the Geological Survey, . 
Contact-Phenoniena of some Scottish Olivine-Diabases. By Ernst Stechbr, 
Ph.D., Leipzig.. Communicated by Dr - Archibald Geikie, F.R.S., 
Director-General of the Geological Survey, . . . ... 
Experimental Researches iir Mountain Building. By Henry M. Cadell, Esq. 
of Grange, B.Sc., F.R.S.E., of H.M. Geological Survey of Scotland, . 
Monday, 5th March 1888. 
Observations on the Movements of the Entire. Detached Animal, and of De- 
tached Ciliated Parts of Bivalve Molluscs, viz.. Gills, Mantle-Lobes, Labial 
Palps, and Foot. By D. M‘Alpine, Esq., F.C.S, Communicated by W. 
E. Hoyle, Esq., M.A. (Plates I., II.), ..... 
Report on the Fishes obtained by Dr John Murray in Deep Water on the North- 
West Coast of Scotland, between April 1887 and March 1888. By Dr A. 
Gunther, F.R.S., Keeper of the Zoological Department, British Museum. 
(Plates III., IV.), 
Morphological Changes that occur in the Human Blood during Coagulation. 
By Professor John Berry Haycraft and E. W. Carrier, Esq., M.B., 
On the Mean Free Path, and the average Number of Collisions per particle per 
second in a Group of Equal Spheres. By Professor Tait, . 
Note on the Compressibility of Glass at different Temperatures. By Professor 
Tait, . . . . . . . . . . 
Exhibition of Photographs of the Lunar Eclipse of 28th January 1888. By 
W. Peck, Esq., F.R.A.S., ..... . 
Monday, 10th March 1888. 
Illegitimacy in the Parish of Marnoch. By George Seton, Esq., M.A. Oxon., 
Notes on the Use of Mercuric Salts in Solution as Antiseptic Surgical Lotions. 
By G. Sims Woodhead, M.D., F.R.C.P. Edin., . , . 
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