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VOL. XXIV.

No. 164.

The Bakerian Lecture.-On the Forms of Equipotential Curves and Surfaces

and on Lines of Flow. By W. G. Adams, M.A., F.R.S., Professor of

Natural Philosophy and Astronomy in King's College, London. (Plates

1 & 2)...

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November 18, 1875.

Report to the Hydrographer of the Admiralty on the Cruise of H.M.S.

Challenger' from June to August 1875. By Prof. Wyville Thomson,

F.R.S., Director of the Civilian Scientific Staff on Board. (Plates 3-7.) 33

On the Physiological Action of Vanadium. By John Priestley, Platt Phy-

siological Scholar, Owens College, Manchester

On some Elementary Principles in Animal Mechanics.-No. VII. The Law

of Fatigue. By the Rev. Samuel Haughton, M.D. (Dubl.), D.C.L.

(Oxon.), F.R.S., Fellow of Trinity College, Dublin.

November 25, 1875.

On the Replacement of Electro-positive by Electro-negative Metals in a

Voltaic Cell. By J. H. Gladstone, Ph.D., F.R.S., Fullerian Professor of

Chemistry in the Royal Institution, and Alfred Tribe, Lecturer on Che-

mistry in Dulwich College

On the Production of Glycosuria by the Effect of Oxygenated Blood on the

Liver. (Supplement to Communication presented June 17th, 1875.)

By F. W. Pavy, M.D., F.R.S.

On the Structure and Relations of the Alcyonarian Heliopora carulea, with

some Account of the Anatomy of a Species of Sarcophyton; Notes on

the Structure of Species of the Genera Millepora, Pocillopora, and Sty-

luster; and Remarks on the Affinities of certain Paleozoic Corals. By

H. N. Moseley, M.A. (Oxon.), Naturalist to the Challenger' Ex-

pedition

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