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On Glories. By Professor Tait, ....... 
Report on the Pennatulida dredged by H.M.S. “ Porcupine.” By A. Milnes 
Marshall, M.D., D.Sc., M.A., F.B.S., Beyer Professor of Zoology in the 
Owens College, and by G. H. Fowler, B.A., Ph.D., Berkeley Fellow of the 
Owens College, Manchester. Communicated by John Murray, Esq., Ph.D., 
Friday, 15 tli July 1887. 
Stability of Fluid Motion. — Rectilineal Motion of Viscous Fluid between two 
Parallel Planes. By Sir W. Thomson, LL.D., F.R.S., 
Note on the Epiblastic Origin of the Segmental Duct in Teleostean Fishes and in 
Birds. By George Brook, Esq., F.L.S., Lecturer on Comparative Em- 
bryology in the University of Edinburgh. Communicated by Professor 
Sir William Turner, F.R.S., . . . . 
Preliminary Note on the Chemistry of Strophanthin. By Thomas R. Fraser, 
M.D., F.R.S., Professor of Materia Medica in the University of Edinburgh, 
On a New Diffusiometer and other Apparatus for Liquid Diffusion. By J. J. 
Coleman, Esq., F.I.C., F.C.S., 
On the Minute Structure of the Eye in certain Cymothoidse. By Frank E. 
Beddard, Esq., M.A., F.Z.S., 
On the Mean Height of the Land of the Globe. By John Murray, Esq., Ph.D., 
The Chcetopoda Sedentaria of the Firth of Forth. By J. T. Cunningham, 
Esq., B.A., . . • . 
Monday, 18th July 1887. 
Laws of Solution. Part II. By W. Durham, Esq., .... 
On the Partition of Energy between the Translatory and Rotational Motions of 
a set of non-homogeneous Elastic Spheres. By Professor W. Burnside. 
Communicated by Professor Tait, ...... 
On the Salinity, Temperature, &c., of the Firth of Forth. By H. R. Mill, Esq., 
D.Sc., .......... 
The Direct Measurement of the Peltier Effect. By Albert Campbell, Esq. 
Communicated by Professor Tait. (Plate XIII.), .... 
On some Vapour Densities at High Temperatures. By Alexander Scott, 
Esq., M.A., D.Sc., . . ..... 
On tbe Determination of the Plane Curve which forms the Outer Limit of the 
Positions of a certain Point. By Dr G. Plarr. Communicated by 
Professor Tait, ........ 
The Thermal Windrose at the Ben Nevis Observatory. By A. Rankine, Esq., 
On Ferric Ferricyanide as a Reagent for Detecting Traces^of Reducing Gases. 
By Professor Crum Brown, . . . . 1 
On the Compressibility of Water, of Mercury, and of Glass, f By Professor Tait, 
An Account of some Experiments which show that Fibrm-Ferment is absent 
from circulating Blood-Plasma, and whicb support the wiew, first advanced 
bj r Sir Joseph Lister, that the Blood has no spontaneous tendency to 
Coagulate. By Professor John Berry Haycraft, . . 
On the Chemical Composition of the Water composing the Clyde Sea Area. By 
Adam Dickie, Esq., . . . . . 
An Experimental Critique of the Chloroplatinate Methods for the Determina- 
tion of Potassium, including a redetermination of the Constant Pt. By 
Professor Dittmar and Mr John M ‘Arthur, .... 
Addition to Thermometer Screens. Part IV. By John Aitken, Esq., 
On the Quotient of a Simple Alternant by the Difference-Product of the 
Variables. By Dr T. Muir, ....... 
Chairman’s Closing Address, ....... 
Minute of Meeting of Special Committee on the Victoria Jubilee Prize, 27th 
June 1887, ......... 
The Theory of Determinants in the Historical Order of its Development. By 
Dr T. Muir, M.A., . . .... 
Donations to the Library, . ... 
Index, . ... 
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