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ABSTRACTS

OF

THE PAPERS

COMMUNICATED TO

THE ROYAL SOCIETY OF
OF LONDON

From 1850 to 1854 inclusive.

VOL. VI.

1850 to 1854.

PRINTED, BY ORDER OF THE PRESIDENT AND COUNCIL,
From the Journal Book of the Society.

LONDON:

PRINTED BY TAYLOR AND FRANCIS,

RED LION COURT, FLEET STREET.

SMDCCCLIV.

CONTENTS.

VOL. VI.

1850.

Researches into the Structure of the Spinal Chord. By Jacob Lock-

hart Clarke, Esq....

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On the Action of Nitric Acid on various Vegetables, with a more par-

ticular examination of Spartium scoparium, Linn., or Common

Broom. By John Stenhouse, Esq., F.R.S.....

Results of Observations on the Distribution of Temperature in the

Alps. By Professor Hermann Schlagintweit...

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1851.

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Researches on the Distribution of Vegetables in the Alps compared

with the Differences of Climate, and on the Periodical Development

of Plants at different heights. By Adolph Schlagintweit

On the Results of Periodical Observations of the Positions and Di-

stances of Nineteen of the Stars in Sir John Herschel's Lists of

Stars favourably situated for the investigation of Parallax contained

in Part III. of the Phil. Trans. for 1826, and in Part I. for 1827.

By Lord Wrottesley, F.R.S., &c.

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Magnetic Survey of the Eastern Archipelago. By Captain C. M. El-

liot, of the Madras Engineers

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On the Oxidation of Ammonia in the Human Body, with some re-

marks on Nitrification. By Henry Bence Jones, M.D., F.R.S., &c. 22

Description of a Muscle of the striped variety, situated at the poste-

rior part of the choroid coat of the Eye in Mammals, with an expla-

nation of its mode of action in adapting the Eye to distinct vision

at different distances. By George Rainey, Esq., M.R.C.S.

On the Supply of Water from the Chalk Stratum in the neighbour-

hood of London. By John Dickinson, Esq., F.R.S. . . . .

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