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X XTT T. Besearches into the Nature of the Involuntary Muscular Tissue of the Urinary 
Bladder. By George VmER Ellis, Professor of Anatomy in University College, 
London. Communicated hy Br. Sharpey, 8ec. B.S. 469 
XXIV. On the Anatomy of Victoria regia. — Part II. By Arthur Hehfret, F.B.S., 
F.L.S., Professor of Botany in King's College, London 479 
XXV. Experimental Inguiry into the Composition of some of the Animals Fed and 
Slaughtered as Human Food. By J. B. Lawes, F.B.S., F.C.8., and J. H. Gilbert, 
Ph.D., PCS. 493 
XXVI. Experimental Inquiries into the Chemical and other Phenomena of Respiration, 
and their Modifications hy various Physical agencies. By Edward Smith, M.D., 
LL.B. {Bond.), M.B.C.P., Corresponding Member of the Academie des Sciences et 
Lettres de Montpellier, and of the Natural History Society of Montreal, Assistant- 
Physician to the Hospital for Consumption, Brompton, &c. Communicated hy Sir 
B. C. Brodie, Bart., Pres. B.S. 681 
XXVII. Experiments on Respiration. — Second Communication. On the Action of Foods 
upon the Respiration during the primary processes of digestion. By Edward Smith, 
M.D., LL.B. {Bond.), M.R.C.P., Corresponding Member of the Academie des 
Sciences et Lettres de Montpellier, and of the Natural History Society of Montreal, 
Assistant-Physician to the Hospital for Consumption, Brompton, &c. Commu- 
nicated hy Sir B. C. Brodie, Bart., Pres. B.S. 715 
XXVIII. Supplement to Mr. Macquorn Kajstkine’s Paper '-'•On the Thermodynamic Theory 
of Steam-engines with dry saturated Steam, and its application to practice ” 743 
XXIX. On the Deflection of the Plumb-line in India, caused hy the Attraction of the 
Himmalaya Mountains and of the elevated regions beyond ; and its modification hy 
the compensating effect of a Deficiency of Matter below the Mountain Mass. By 
the Venerable John Henry Pratt, M.A., Archdeacon of Calcutta. Communicated 
by Professor Stokes, Sec. B.S 745 
XXX. On the Influence of the Ocean on the Plumb-line in India. By the Venerable 
J. H. Pratt, M.A., Archdeacon of Calcutta. Communicated by Professor Stokes, 
Sec. B.S 779 
XXXI. On the Properties of Electro-deposited Antimony (continued). By G. Gore, Esq. 
Communicated by Professor Tyndall, F.B.S. 797 
XXXII. On the Megatherium (Megatherium Americanum, Cuvier and Blumenbach). 
Part V. — Bones of the Posterior Extremities. By Professor Owen, F.B.S. , Super- 
intendent of the Natural History Departments in the British Museum . . 809 
XXXIII. Conductibility of Mercury and Amalgams. ByV. Crace-Calvert, AIC./S., 
Mem. Roy. Acad, of Turin, &c. &c., and Bichard Johnson, Esq., F.C.S., Mem. 
Phil. Soc. of Manchester. Communicated by Professor Stokes, Sec. B.S. . 831 
