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1. Recent Developments of the Committee of the Privy Council for Scientitic 
and Industrial Research. Address by John Horne, LL.D., F.R.S. Issued 
separately January 30, 1918, . . . . . . 1 
2. Wm. J. Beaton, Second Lieutenant Machine Gun Company, Assistant Librarian, 
R.S.E. By The General Secretary, ...... 9 
3. Notices of Fellows, Honorary and Ordinary, recently deceased. By The General 
Secretary, ......... 10 
4. Period of Survival of the Shore-Crab ( Garcinus msenas) in Distilled Water. By 
Robert K. S. Lim. (From the Laboratory of Physiology, Edinburgh Uni- 
versity.) Communicated by Professor Sir E. A. Schafer, F.R.S. Issued 
separately February 28, 1918, . . . . . . . 14 
5. Thermodynamics of Adsorption. By A. M. Williams, M.A., B.Sc., 1851 Exhibi- 
tion Scholar of the University of Edinburgh, 1911-14. Communicated by 
Professor James Walker, F.R.S. Issued separately February 28, 1918, . 23 
6. A Further Study of the Diets of Labouring Class Families in Glasgow in War 
Time. By Margaret I. H. Ferguson. (From the Department of Physiology, 
University of Glasgow.) Communicated by Professor D. Noel Paton. Issued 
separately February 28, 1918, . . . . . .40 
7. Experiments on the Respiratory Mechanism of the Shore-Crab (Garcinus msenas). 
By Robert K. S. Lim. (From the Laboratory of Physiology, Edinburgh 
University.) Communicated by Professor Sir E. A. Schafer. Issued 
separately April 16, 1918, . . . . . . . 48 
8. A Determinantal Equation whose Roots are the Products of the Roots of Given 
Equations. By Professor William H. Metzler. Issued separately April 16, 
1918, 57 
9. A Reduction-formula for the Functions of the Second Kind connected with the 
Polynomials of Applied Mathematics. By Pierre Humbert. Communicated 
by Professor E. T. Whittaker, F.R.S. Issued separately May 29, 1918, . 61 
10. Note on the Strathmore Meteorite of 1917 Dec. 3. By Professor R. A. Sampson. 
Issued separately May 29, 1918, . 
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