PROCEEDINGS. OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY OF LONDON. From March 3, 1892, to May 19, 1892. VOL. LI. LONDON: HARRISON AND SONS, ST. MARTIN'S LANE, Printers in Ordinary to Her Majesty. Sm MDCCCXCII. CONTENTS. Page Weldon, M.A., F.R.S., Fellow of St. John's College, Cambridge, Pro- An Experimental Investigation of the Nerve Roots which enter into the Formation of the Brachial Plexus of the Dog. By J. S. Risien Russell, M.B., M.R.C.P. (From the Physiological Institute of Berlin and the Pathological Laboratory of University College, London).................... The Influence of the Kidney on Metabolism. By J. Rose Bradford, M.D., D.Sc., Fellow of University College, London, Assistant Professor of Clinical Medicine at University College, Grocer Research Scholar. (From the Physiological Laboratory of University College, London) .... 25 BAKERIAN LECTURE.-On the Grand Currents of Atmospheric Circulation. By James Thomson, LL.D., F.R.S., Emeritus Professor of Civil En- gineering and Mechanics in the University of Glasgow. [Plate 1] .... 42 Dynamo-Electric Machinery. By J. Hopkinson, F.R.S., and E. Wilson On the Clark Cell as a Standard of Electromotive Force. By R. T. Glaze- brook, M.A., F.R.S., Fellow of Trinity College, and S. Skinner, M.A., Christ's College, Demonstrator in the Cavendish Laboratory, Note on the Functional and Structural Arrangement of Efferent Fibres in the Nerve-roots of the Lumbo-sacral Plexus. (Preliminary Com- munication.) By C. S. Sherrington, M. A., M.B., &c............. On the Causation of Diphtheritic Paralysis. By Sydney Martin, M.D., F.R.C.P., Assistant Physician to University College Hospital CROONIAN LECTURE.-The Temperature of the Brain, especially in relation to Psychical Activity. By Angelo Mosso, Professor of March 31, 1892. Au Improved Apparatus for ascertaining the Sensitiveness of Safetylamps when used for Gas-testing. By Frank Clowes, D.Sc. (Lond.), Professor of Chemistry, University College, Nottingham ............... On the Application of a Hydrogen Flame in an ordinary Safety-lamp On the Application of the Safety-lamp to the Detection of Benzoline Aberration Problems: a Discussion concerning the Connexion between The Abductor and Adductor Fibres of the Recurrent Laryngeal Nerve. .... Interference with Icterus in Occluded Ductus Choledochus. By 116 List of Presents 116 ........... No. 309. The Nature of the Shoulder Girdle and Clavicular Arch in Sauropterygia. By H. G. Seeley, F.R.S., Professor of Geography, King's College, London Report of the Kew Committee............. No. 310. First Report to the Water Research Committee of the Royal Society, on the present State of our Knowledge concerning the Bacteriology of Water, with especial reference to the Vitality of Pathogenic Schizomycetes in Water. By Percy F. Frankland, Ph.D., B.Sc. (Lond.), F.R.S., Professor of Chemistry in University College, Dundee, and Marshall Ward, Sc.D., F.R.S., F.L.S., Professor of Botany in the Royal Indian Engineering College, Coopers Hill............ 119 152 183 No. 311. Report of the Committee on Colour-Vision. [Plate 2] 281 Evidence taken by the Committee 306 Letters received by the Committee bearing on the Enquiry.... 357 Appendices. [Plate 3] 368 On a decisive Test-case disproving the Maxwell-Boltzmann Doctrine Page 397 399 400 On the Mathematical Theory of Electro-magnetism. By Alex. McAulay, Stellar Photometry. By W. J. Dibdin, F.I.C., F.C.S., &c.......................... On some Phenomena connected with Cloudy Condensation. By John Aitken, F.R.S. 404 408 List of Presents...... 439 No. 313.-May 5, 1892. List of Candidates recommended for Election Transmission of Sunlight through the Earth's Atmosphere. Part II. On the Simultaneity of Magnetic Variations at different places on occasions of Magnetic Disturbance, and on the relation between Magnetic and Earth Current Phenomena. By William Ellis, F.R.A.S., Superintendent of the Magnetical and Meteorological Department, Royal Observatory, Greenwich 443 444 445 On the Liquation of Metals of the Platinum Group. By Edward 447 The Potential of an Anchor Ring. By F. W. Dyson, Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge 448 On the Residues of Powers of Numbers for any Composite Modulus, 452 List of Presents. 453 May 12, 1892. Transformers. By John Perry, D.Sc., F.R.S. 455 On the Probable Effect of the Limitation of the Number of Ordinary 463 On the Shoulder Girdle in Ichthyosauria and Sauropterygia. By J. W. 471 On the Embryology of Angiopteris evecta, Hofm. By J. Bretland 471 Note on Excretion in Sponges. By George Bidder 474 List of Presents................. 484 |