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Contents. 
Note on the Reducing Power of the Living Animal Tissues. By 
David Fraser Harris, B.Sc. (Lond.), M.B., C.M., 
Hiematoporphyrinuria and its Relations to the Origin of 
Urohilin. By David Fraser Harris, B.Sc. (Lond.), M.B., C.M., 
A Contribution to the Comparative Anatomy of the Mammalian 
Organ of Jacobson. By R. Broom, M.D., B.Sc. Communicated 
by Sir William Turner, ..... 
Experiments on the Electrical Phenomena produced in Gases by 
Rontgen Rays, by Ultra Violet Light, and by Uranium. By 
Lord Kelvin, G.C.V.O., F.R.S., etc., etc. ; J. Carruthers Beattie, 
D.Sc., F.R.S.E., 1851 Exhibition Scholar, Research Fellow of 
the University of Glasgow ; and M. S. de Smolan, Ph.D., 
Research Fellow of the University of Glasgow, 
On a Differential Method for Measuring Differences of Vapour 
Pressures of Liquids at one Temperature and at Different 
Temperatures. By Lord Kelvin, G.C.V.O., 
On Ethane prepared from Ethyl Iodide, and on the Properties of 
some Mixtures of Ethane and Butane. By Professor J. P. 
Kuenen. (With Three Plates), . 
Our Perception of the Direction of Sound. By Albert Alexander 
Gray, M.D. (Glasgow). Communicated by Professor M‘Kendrick, 
On the Geometrical Investigation of the Circular Functions of 30 
and 50. By Professor A. H. Anglin, 
The Antivenomous Properties of the Bile of Serpents and other 
Animals ; and an Explanation of the Insusceptibility of 
Animals to the Poisonous Action of Venom introduced into 
the Stomach. By Professor Fraser, M.D., LL.D., F.R.S., 
On the Electrification of Air by Uranium and its Compounds. 
By J. Carruthers Beattie, D.Sc. With a Note by Lord Kelvin, 
G.C.V.O., F.R.S., etc., etc., ..... 
On Supersaturation and its Dependence on Crystalline Form. 
By W. W. J. Nicol, M.A., D.Sc., F.R.S.E., F.I.C., 
Note on the Calcutta Earthquake (June 12, 1897), as recorded 
by the Bifilar Pendulum at the Edinburgh Royal Observatory. 
By Thomas Heath, B.A. (With Two Plates), . 
Notes on the Total Eclipse of the Sun, 8th August 1896. By 
Professor Ralph Copland, Ph.D., Astronomer-Royal for Scot- 
land, and Mr A. J. Ramsay, . 
Note on the Solution of Equations in Linear and Vector Functions. 
By Professor Tait, ...... 
Notes on some Earthquakes in India. By J. W. Inglis, Mem. 
Inst.C.E., ....... 
Meetings of the Royal Society-— Session 1896-97, 
Donations to the Library, .... 
Obituary Notices, .... 
Index, ...... 
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