January 21, 1897.
Sir JOHN EVANS, K.C.B., D.C.L., LL.D., Vice-President and Treasurer, in the Chair.
A List of the Presents received was laid on the table, and thanks ordered for them.
The Right Hon. Sir John Eldon Gorsc, a member of Her Majesty’s Most Honourable Privy Council, was admitted into the Society.
The following Papers were read:—
I. “ On Cheirostrobus, a new Type of Fossil Cone from the Caleiferous Sandstones.” By D. H. S cott, M.A., Ph.D., F.R.S.
II. “ Experiments in Examination of the Peripheral Distribution of the Fibres of the Posterior Roots of some Spinal Nerves. Part II.” By C. S. S herrington, M.D., F.R.S., Holt Professor of Physiology, University College, Liverpool.
III. “ Cataleptoid Reflexes in the Monkey.” By C. S. Sherrjngton, M.D., F.R.S., Holt Professor of Physiology, University College, Liverpool.
IV. “ On Reciprocal Innervation of Antagonistic Muscles. Third Note.” By C. S. S herrington, M.D., F.R.S., Holt Professor of Physiology, University College, Liverpool.
(Abstract.)
This paper is in continuation of one brought before the Society in 1892, and published in ‘Phil. Trans.,’ B, vol. 184. In that communication the peripheral distribution of the sensory nerve-roots of the sacro-lumbar and the thoracic regions was examined. In the present the examination is extended to the cervical and brachial sensory
