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XXYI. Supplement to former Paper, entitled —“ Experimental Inquiry into the 
Composition of some of the Animals Fed and Slaughtered as Human Food ."— 
Composition of the Ash of the entire Animals, and of certain separated parts. 
By Sir John Bennet Lawes, Bart., LL.D., F.R.S., F.C.S., and Joseph 
Henry Gilbert, Ph.D., LL.D., F.R.S., V.P.C.S . page 865 
XXVII. The Bakerian Lecture.— On Radiant Matter Spectroscopy: The Detection 
and wide Distribution of Yttrium. By William Crookes, F.R.S. - . . 891 
XXVIII. On a new Crinoid from the Southern Sea. By P. Herbert Carpenter, 
M.A., Assistant-Master at Eton College. Communicated by William B. 
Ca_rpenter, C.B., M.D., F.R.S. . 919 
XXIX. An Experimental Investigation of the Circumstances which detremine whether 
the Motion of Water shall be Direct or Sinuous, and of the Law of Resistance 
in Parallel Channels. By Osborne Reynolds, F.R.S. . 935 
Index to Volume 
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