Contents. 
Vll 
On the Eliminant of a Set of Ternary Quadrics. By Thomas 
Muir, LL.D., ....... 
On the so-called “ Hypoiodite of Magnesium.” By James Walker, 
D.Sc., Ph.D., and Sydney A. Kay, B.Sc., University College, 
Dundee, ........ 
Abstract of Paper “ On Intermediary Links between Man and 
the Lower Animals.” By Robert Munro, M.A., M.D., 
Note on the Sensitiveness of the Skin to Weak Electric Currents, 
as compared with the Sensitiveness of a Telephone to the same 
Currents. By John G. M‘Kendrick, Professor of Physiology, 
University of Glasgow, ..... 
A Research into the Nature of the Nucleins and Paranucleins of 
the Animal Cell. By T. H. Milroy, M.D., B.Sc., 
Theoretical Researches on the Daily Change of the Temperature 
of the Air. By Dr J. Halm. (With a Plate), 
The Intermediate Observing Station on Ben Nevis. By T. S. 
Muir, M.A., . 
On the Electrolysis of Potassium Ethyl-Sulphone-Acetate. By 
Professor Crum Brown and Dr Herbert W. Bolam, 
Note on an Analysis of Human Gastric Juice. By W. R. Lang, 
B.Sc., F.C.S., Chemical Laboratory, University of Glasgow. 
Communicated by Professor M‘Kendrick, 
On a New Form of Constant Volume Air Thermometer, which 
shows the Total Pressure directly, and may be graduated in 
Degrees by Temperature. By J. R. Erskine Murray, Assistant 
Professor of Electrical Engineering and Physics in the Heriot- 
Watt College, Edinburgh, . 
On Photo-Chemical Action. By Professor John Gibson, 
On the Linear and Vector Function. By Professor Tait, 
On Electrical Properties of Fumes proceeding from Flames and 
Burning Charcoal. By the Right Hon. Lord Kelvin, G.C.V.O., 
F.R.S., and Dr Magnus Maclean, . 
On Osmotic Pressure against an Ideal Semi-permeable Membrane. 
By the Right Hon. Lord Kelvin, LL.D., D.C.L., F.R.S., 
Some Type-Specimens of Lepidoptera and Coleoptera in the 
Edinburgh Museum of Science and Art. By Percy Hall 
Grimshaw, F.E.S., ...... 
The Eliminant of a Set of Quaternary Quadrics. By Thomas 
Muir, LL.D., ....... 
On the Expression of any Bordered Skew Determinant as a Sum 
of Products of Pfaffians. By Thomas Muir, LL.D., 
On the Eliminant 
°f / 0*0 = 0, /(^,) = 0. 
By Thomas Muir, 
H-JiD ., ......a. 
On the Resolution of Circulants into Rational Factors. By 
Thomas Muir, LL.D., .....* 
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