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The authors of the several papers contained in this volume are themselves accountable for all the statements and reasonings which they have offered. In these particulars the Society must not be considered as in any way responsible.

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On a Magnetometer for showing the Influence of Temperature on the

Magnetization of Iron and other Magnetic Substances. By HENRY

On the Affinities of Polybasic Acids. By BEVAN LEAN, D.Sc., B.A.,

Assistant Lecturer, and late Bishop Berkeley Fellow of Owens

College. Communicated by W. H. PERKIN, jun., F.R.S.

On the light thrown upon the question of the Growth and Development of

the Carboniferous Arborescent Lepidodendra by a study of the details

of their Organisation. By W. C. WILLIAMSON, LL.D. and F.R.S.,

Emeritus Professor of Botany in the Owens College, Manchester

On the Multiple Proportions of the Atomic Weights of Elementary

Substances in relation to the unit of Hydrogen. By HENRY WILDe,

On a Comparison of the Thermometers used by the late Dr. Joule with

the Standards of the Bureau International des Poids et Mesures. By

ARTHUR SCHUSTER, F.R.S.

On the Evidence afforded by Bode's Law of a permanent Contraction of

the Radii Vectores of the Planetary Orbits. By HENRY Wilde, F.R.S. 95

On Kaloxylon Hookeri, Will. and Lyginodendron Oldhamium, Will. By

THOMAS HICK, B.A., B.Sc., A.L.S., Assistant Lecturer in Botany,

Owens College. Communicated by F. E. WEISS, B.Sc., Professor

of Botany at the Owens College ...

A Sketch of the Limitations which are enforced upon the Mathematical

Forms of the Expressions for Physical Quantities in a Continuous

Medium in consequence of the necessity for their Permanence of Form.

By R. F. GWYTber, M.A.

...

On the True Resistance and on the Back Electromotive Force of the

Electric Arc. By JULIUS FRITH, 1851 Exhibition Scholar, the

Owens College, Manchester. Communicated by ARTHUR SCHuster,

"On the True Resistance and on the Back

Electromotive Force of the Electric Arc." BY ARTHUR SCHuster,

On Some Remarkable Passages in the writings of Benjamin Franklin.

By ARTHUR SCHUSTER, F.R.S....

...

On the Structure of the Leaves of Calamites.

By THOMAS HICK, B.A.,

B.Sc., A. L.S., Assistant Lecturer in Botany, the Owens College, Man-

chester. Communicated by F. E. WEISS, B.Sc., Professor of Botany

at the Owens College

Notes on Glacier Moraines in Cumberland and Westmorland. By

W. BROCKBANK, F.G.S.

ALLEN, J. F.-On Deposits of Atmospheric Impurities on Snow...

BAILEY, CHARLES, F. L.S.-On the anatomy of the Iris sibirica...

On Swedish pond weeds ...

On the exhibits of Ramalina reticulata and Phallus impudicus, in

the Manchester Museum

BLACK, J. W.-On the fall of soot and ash in a garden in Edinburgh 108

BROTHERS, ALFRED, F.R.A.S.-On the appearance of the planet

On the supposed Aurora Borealis, as seen at Poynton

DIXON, Prof. H. B., F.R.S.-On an examination of the spectrum of

argon at the Owens College...

GWYTHER, R. F., M.A.-On the sufferings of birds during severe weather 108

HICK, THOMAS, B.A., B.Sc.-On a method of Double-staining Plant

HODGKINSON, Dr. A.-On the Germination of Orchidaceous Seeds

HOYLE, W. E., M.A.-On a specimen of Rhizocrinus lofotensis ...

On the method adopted in the Manchester Museum for the illustra-

tion of the different natural orders of the vegetable kingdom 172

LAMB, Prof. HORACE, M.A., F.R.S.-On the Stability of Steady

: On the Oscillations of Liquids of Different Densities ...

NICHOLSON, F., F.Z.S.--On the sufferings of birds during

POLLARD, H. B., B.A., D.Sc.-On some Models of Siluroid Fish

REYNOLDS, Prof. OSBORNE, F.R.S.-On the behaviour of the Surface of

Separation of Two Liquids of Different Densities

STIRRUP, MARK, F.G.S.-On the Geological Antiquity of Insects

SWINDELLS, RUPERT, M. Inst. C. E.-On the continuous Markings made by

a Thermograph and a Barograph during the recent storms

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WEISS, Prof. F. E., B.Sc.-On the stem of the Melon

On some specimens of Ramalina reticulata and Phallus impudicus
recently added to the Manchester Museum...

WILDE, HENRY, F. R.S.-On the Multiple Proportions of the Atomic

Weights of Elementary Substances in relation to the Unit of

Letter to the Society offering an Endowment ...

The details of the Agreement with the Council on the employment of

the income from the Wilde endowment

On argon and helium

General Meetings

Annual General Meeting

172

Report of the Council, with Obituary Notices of the Marquis de Saporta,

August Kundt, Jean Charles Gillisard de Marignac, Sir James

Cockle, Julius Lothar Meyer, Hermann Ludgwig Ferdinand von

Helmholtz, Wilhelm Roscher, Arthur Cayley, and Thomas

Penyngton Kirkman ...

Treasurer's Accounts

Meetings of the Microscopical and Natural History Section :-

Annual Report of the Microscopical and Natural History Section
List of the Council and Members

PLATES, &c.

I. To illustrate Mr. WILDE's paper on "The Magnetometer "

II. To illustrate Mr. HICK's paper on "Kaloxylon Hookeri and
Lyginodendron Oldhamium”

III. To illustrate Mr. HICK's paper on "The Structure of the Leaves of

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IV., V., VI.—To illustrate Mr. BROCKBANK'S paper on

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