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On the effects produced by Poisonous Fish on the Human Frame. By Sir William Burnett, M.D. K.C.H., Vice-President of the Royal Society page 609
Further Researches on the Nervous System of the Uterus. By Robert Lee, M.D. F.R.S., Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians 609
History of the Mace given to the Royal Society by King Charles the Second. By Charles Richard Weld, Esq., Barrister at Law, Assistant Secretary and Librarian to the Royal Society 611
On the Anatomy and Physiology of the Vascular Fringes in Joints, and the Sheaths of Tendons. By George Rainey, Esq. M.R.C.S. 621
Description of a Process for extracting the Palladium which exists in combination with the Gold of the Gongosocho and other Mines in the Brazils. By Percival N. Johnson, Esq., in a letter to the President 622
Contributions to Terrestrial Magnetism. — No. VII. By Lieut.-Colonel Sabine, R.A. For. Sec. R.S 622
An Account of the desquamation and change of colour in a Negro of Upper Guinea, West Africa. By the Rev. Thomas S. Savage, M.D., Corr. Member of the Boston Natural History Society, &c. 623
On the Physiology of the Human Voice. By John Bishop, Esq. F.R.S 624
The Electric Fluid. By W. F. Stevenson, Esq. F.R.S 625
Observations of the Heights of the Thermometer and Barometer made at Lenham Lodge, near JMaidstone, Kent, during the first nine days of the month of June 1846. By George Hunsley Fielding, M.D. F.R.S 625
On the relative dynamic value of the Degrees of the Compass; and on the Cause of the Needle resting in the Magnetic Meridian. By Sir Graves C. Haughton, K.H. M.A. F.R.S.,'^ Foreign Associate of the Institute of France 626
Remarks on the Extractive Material of Urine, and on the Excretion of Sulphur and Phosphorus by the Kidneys in an unoxidized state. By Edmund Ronalds, Ph.D., Giessen 626
On some peculiarities of Foetal Digestion. By George Robinson, M.D. 626
Extracts of Letters from Captain Williams, first Assistant to the Commissioner of Arracan, and from Ensign Haukeu and Mr. Howe, Marine Assistant Commissioner, giving details of a curious phenomenon seen at sea off Kyook Phyoo 627
On the Fossil Remains of the soft parts of Foraminifera discovered in the Chalk and Flint of the South-east of England. By Gideon Algernon Mantell, Esq. LL.D. F.R.S 627
Microscopic Observations on the so-called Vesicular Vapours of Water as existing in the Vapours of Steam, and in Clouds, &c. By A. Waller, M.D 628
Experiments relative to Animal Temperature, showing that there must be some source of animal heat besides the combustion of the Carbon and the Hydrogen contained in the Food of Animals. By Robert Rigg, Esq. F.R.S 628