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Contents. 
Life and Chemical Work of Archibald Scott Couper. By Richard Anschutz, Ph.D., 
LL.D., Professor of Chemistry in the University of Bonn. Translated and com- 
municated by Emeritus-Professor A. Crum Brown, M.D., D.Sc., LL.D. (With 
Two Plates.) Issued separately April 30, 1909, . 
On the Magnetic Properties of certain Copper Alloys. By Alexander D. Ross, M.A., 
B.Sc., Assistant to the Professor of Natural Philosophy in the University of 
Glasgow, and Robert C. Gray, Thomson Experimental Scholar in the University 
of Glasgow. Issued separately May 3, 1909, , . 
Low Temperature Experiments in Magnetism. By James G. Gray, B.Sc., Lecturer 
on Physics in the University of Glasgow, and Hugh Higgins, M.A., Thomson 
Experimental Scholar in the University of Glasgow. Communicated by Professor 
A. Gray, F.R.S. Issued separately May 11, 1909, . 
On the Discharge of Water from Circular Weirs and Orifices. By G. H. Gulliver, 
B. Sc., A.M.I.Mech.E., Lecturer in Engineering in the University of Edinburgh. 
Issued separately May 11, 1909, ....... 
The Electromotive Force of Iodine Concentration Cells with One Electrode saturated 
with Iodine. By A. P. Laurie, D.Sc., M.A. Cantab. Issued separately May 
11, 1909, . . . . . . . . . 
Cynomacrurus Piriei , Poisson abyssal nouveau recueilli par l’Expedition Antarctique 
Nationale Ecossaise. Note preliminaire, par Louis Dollo, Sc.D. (Cantab.), 
For.Mem.G.S., C.M.Z.S., a Bruxelles (Musee). Presentee par M. R. H. Traquair, 
M.D., F.R.S. , Y.P.R.S.E. Issued separately May 13, 1909, 
On Lagrange’s Equations of Motion, and on Elementary Solutions of Gyrostatic 
Problems. By Professor Andrew Gray, F.R.S. Issued separately May 13, 1909, 
On Energy Accelerations and Partition of Energy. By C. W. Follett. Com- 
municated by Professor W. Peddie. Issued separately May 15, 1909, 
The Systematic Motions of the Stars. (Second Paper.) By Professor Dyson. Issued 
separately May 15, 1909, ........ 
Flexural Vibrations of Thin Rods. By George Green, M.A., B.Sc., Assistant to the 
Professor of Natural Philosophy in the University of Glasgow. Communicated 
by Professor Gray. Issued separately April 30, 1909, .... 
A Negative Attempt to detect Fluorescence Absorption. By Robert A. Houstoun, 
M.A., D.Sc., Ph.D., Lecturer on Physical Optics in the University of Glasgow. 
Communicated by Professor A. Gray, F.R.S. Issued separately July 8, 1909, 
Experiment with the Spark Gap of an Induction Coil. By Dr Dawson Turner. 
Issued separately July 8, 1909, ....... 
Strophantlius sarmentosus : its Pharmacological Action and its Use as an Arrow 
Poison. By Sir Thomas R. Fraser, M.D., F.R.S. L. and E., Professor of Materia 
Medica in the University of Edinburgh ; and Alister T. Mackenzie, M.A., M.B., 
Ch.B., Carnegie Research Scholar. (Abstract.) Issued separately July 9, 1909, . 
On the Histological Changes in the Liver and Kidney after Chloroform administered 
by Different Channels. By G. Herbert Clark, M.B., D.P.H. ( From the 
Physiological Laboratory of the University of Glasgow.) (With Three Plates.) 
Issued separately July 9, 1909, ....... 
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