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January 8th, 1879. — 1 “ On Specimens of Ballast Plants collected 
at Cardiff in September, 1878,” by Mr. Thomas Regers. 
January 21^, 1879. — On an old Letter of the late Sir Walter 
Scott,” by E. W. Binney, V.P., F.R.S., F.G.S. 
“ On a further Analysis of the Water of the Mineral Spring at 
Humphrey Head,” by C. Grimshaw and H. Grimshaw, F.G.S. 
January 2 8th, 1879.— “On a Copy of the Principia of Newton,” 
by James Bottomley, B.A., D.Sc. 
February 4 th, 1879.—' “ The Area of the Middle Drifts, as deter- 
mined by their Contents,” by Alfred Bell, F.G.S. Communicated 
by R. D. Darbishire, F.G.S. 
February 18^, 1879. — “On a Chemical Investigation of Japanese 
Lacquer, or Urushi,” by Sadamu Ishimatsu. Communicated by 
Professor Roscoe, F.R.S. 
“ On the Bursting of the Gun on board the Thunderer,” by 
Professor Osborne Reynolds, F.R.S. 
February 25th, 1879. — “On the Mean Temperatures of the 
Winters of the last 29 years,” by the Rev. Thomas Mackereth, 
F.R.A.S. Ac. 
March 4 th, 1879. — “On a Modification of Bunsen’s Calorimeter,” 
by Professor Balfour Stewart, LL.D., F.R.S. 
“The Poisonous Qualities of the Yew,” by William E. A. Axon, 
M.R.S.L., F.S.S. 
March 10th, 1879. — On the great Sheatfish, Silurus glanis, in 
Loch Bad-a-Luacradh, Ross,” by John Plant, F.G.S. 
March 18 th, 1879. — On Siliceous Fossilization,” Part II., by 
J. B. Hannay, F.R.S.E., F.C.S. 
March 25tli, 1879. — “Observations of Dr. Klein’s new Lunar 
Crater near Hyginus, made at the Observatory, Birkdale,” by 
Joseph Baxendell, F.R.A.S. 
“ On the Meteorological Effects of the Position of the Moon with 
respect to the Sun,” by Joseph Baxendell, F.R.A.S. 
April 1st, 1879. — Two Deductions from Mr. G. H. Darwin’s 
letter in Nature, February 6th, 1879, upon Sir W. Thomson’s 
equation of cooling 
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