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Contents. 
A Graphical Representation of Emotion as expressed in Rhyme. 
By Professor J. M. Dixon, M.A. (With a Plate), 
Notes on Clouds. By John Aitken, Esq., F.R.S., 
Note on the Digestion of Starch in the Stomach. By W. G. 
Aitchison Robertson, M.D., D.Sc., .... 
On the Seasonal Death-rate from certain Diseases in Edinburgh 
during the period 1878-94, with Remarks on the Relation 
between Weather and Mortality. By R. C. Mossman, F.R.S.E., 
F.R.Met.Soc. (With a Plate), ..... 
On the Path of a Rotating Spherical Projectile. Part II. By 
Professor Tait. {Abstract). ..... 
Note on Centrobaric Shells. By Professor Tait, . 
On the Motion of a Heterogeneous Liquid, commencing from 
Rest with a given Motion of its Boundary. By Lord Kelvin, 
President , ........ 
Note on Clerk-Maxwell’s Law of Distribution of Velocity in a 
Group of Equal Colliding Spheres. By Professor Tait, 
On the Structure of Actinotrocha considered in relation to the 
suggested Chordate Affinities of Phoronis. By A. T. Master- 
man, B.A., Lecturer and Assistant Professor of Natural 
History in the University of St Andrews, 
Some Results obtained with the Rontgen X-Rays. By J. Mac- 
intyre, M.B., F.R.M.S., ...... 
Additional Notes on the Rontgen X-Rays. By J. MacIntyre, 
M.B., F.R.M.S., ....... 
On the Relation between the Hall Effect and Thermo-electricity 
in Bismuth and in various Alloys. By Dr J. C. Beattie, 
Preliminary Note on Dietthio and Diethylsulphone derivatives 
of Succinic Acid. By Professor Crum Brown and R. Fair- 
bairn, B.Sc., ....... 
On the Linear and Vector Function. {Abstract.) By Prof. Tait, 
On the Electro-magnetic Wave-surface. By Professor Tait, 
The Physiological Action of Eucain. By M. Charteris, M.D., 
Professor of Materia Medica, University of Glasgow, and 
William MacLennan, M.B., C.M., . 
Chairman’s Opening Address, Session 1896-97. By Professor 
John G. M‘Kendrick, M.D., Vice-President , 
{a) The Structural and Physiological Nervous Unit, 
{b) Experiments on the Rhythmic Stimulation of Sensory 
Nerves of the Skin, . 
(c) Demonstration of an Improved Phonograph Recorder, 
and Remarks on the Curves thereby obtained, . 
On the Reproduction of some Marine Diatoms. By George 
Murray, F.R.S.E., F.L.S., Keeper of Botany, British Museum. 
(With Three Plates), ..... 
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