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PROCEEDINGS
OF THE
ROYAL SOCIETY OF LONDON
SERIES B
CONTAINING PAPERS OF A BIOLOGICAL CHARACTER
VOL. LXXVI.
LONDON:
PRINTED FOR THE ROYAL SOCIETY AND SOLD BY HARRISON AND SONS, ST. MARTIN'S LANE,
PRINTERS IN ORDINARY TO HIS MAJESTY.
NOVEMBER, 1905.
HARRISON AND SONS, PRINTERS IN ORDINARY TO HIS MAJESTY, ST. MARTIN'S LANE.
CONTENTS.
SERIES B. VOL. LXXVI.
No. B 507.-April 22, 1905.
Address delivered by the President, Sir William Huggins, K.C.B., O.M., F.R.S., at
the Anniversary Meeting on November 30, 1904....................
Researches on some of the Physiological Processes of Green Leaves, with special
Reference to the Interchange of Energy between the Leaf and its Surroundings.
By Horace T. Brown, LL.D., F.R.S., and F. Escombe. (This paper, and the
three following ones, constituted the Bakerian Lecture for 1905.)
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On a New Method for the Determination of Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide, based on
the Rate of its Absorption by a Free Surface of a Solution of Caustic Alkali.
By Horace T. Brown, F.R.S., and F. Escombe........
On the Variations in the Amount of Carbon Dioxide in the Air of Kew during the
years 1898-1901. By Horace T. Brown, F.R.S., and F. Escombe
On the Thermal Emissivity of a Green Leaf in Still and Moving Air. By Horace
T. Brown, LL.D., F.R.S., and W. E. Wilson, D.Sc., F.R.S.
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No. B 508.-May 24, 1905.
On the Absence or Marked Diminution of Free Hydrochloric Acid in the Gastric
Contents, in Malignant Disease of Organs other than the Stomach. By Benjamin
Moore, M.A., D.Sc., Johnston Professor of Bio-Chemistry in the University of
Liverpool (in collaboration with W. Alexander, M.D., M.Ch., F.R.C.S., Hon.
Surgeon, Royal Southern Hospital, Liverpool; R. E. Kelly, M.B., B.Ch., B.Sc.,
Alexander Fellow, University of Liverpool; and H. E. Roaf, M.B., Johnston
Colonial Fellow, University of Liverpool). Communicated by Professor C. S.
Sherrington, F.R.S.
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On Reciprocal Innervation of Antagonistic Muscles.-Seventh Note. By C. S.
A Preliminary Note upon the Question of the Nutrition of the Early Embryo, with
Special Reference to the Guinea-pig and Man. By E. Emrys-Roberts, M.B.
(Liverpool), Ethel Boyce Research Fellow in Gynecological Pathology in the
University of Liverpool. Communicated by Professor C. S. Sherrington,
F.R.S.
The Influence of Cobra-venom on the Proteid Metabolism. By James Scott, M.D.,
C.M., B.Sc. Edin. Communicated by Sir Thomas R. Fraser, F.R.S.
On the Physical Chemistry of the Toxin-Antitoxin Reaction with Special
Reference to the Neutralisation of Lysin by Antilysin. By J. A. Craw,
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