Note on the Auxiliary Forces concerned in the Circulation of the Preg- nant Uterus and its Contents in Woman. By J. Braxton Hicks, M.D., A Summary of an Inquiry into the Function of Respiration at Various Altitudes on the Island and Peak of Teneriffe. By William Marcet, I. On a method of using the Balance with great delicacy, and on its Employ- ment to determine the Mean Density of the Earth. By J. H. POYNT- ING, B.A., Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge, Demonstrator in the 35 Account of the appropriation of the sum of £1,000 (the Government Grant) annually voted by Parliament to the Royal Society, to be employed in 75 PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY. November 21, 1878. Sir JOSEPH HOOKER, K.C.S.I., President, in the Chair. In pursuance of the Statutes, notice was given from the Chair of the ensuing Anniversary Meeting, and the list of Officers and Council proposed for election was read as follows: President.-William Spottiswoode, M.A., D.C.L., LL.D. Secretaries. { Professor George Gabriel Stokes, M.A., D.C.L., LL.D. Foreign Secretary.-Alexander William Williamson, Ph.D. Other Members of the Council.-Frederick A. Abel, C.B., V.P.C.S.; William Bowman, F.R.C.S.; William Carruthers, V.P.L.S.; MajorGeneral Henry Clerk, R.A.; William Crookes, V.P.C.S.; Sir William Robert Grove, M.A.; Augustus G. Vernon Harcourt, F.C.S.; Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker, C.B., K.C.S.I., D.C.L.; Admiral Sir Astley Cooper Key, K.C.B.; Lieut.-General Sir Henry Lefroy, C.B. ; Lord Lindsay, P.R.A.S.; Sir John Lubbock, Bart., V.P.L.S.; Lord Rayleigh, M.A.; Charles William Siemens, D.C.L.; John Simon, C.B., D.C.L.; Professor Allen Thomson, M.D., F.R.S.E. The Presents received were laid on the table, and thanks ordered for them. The Rev. Thomas George Bonney, Dr. John Hughlings Jackson, and Mr. Edward Alfred Schäfer were admitted into the Society. General Boileau, General Clerk, Mr. J. Evans, Dr. Gladstone, and Mr. Simon having been nominated by the President, were elected by ballot Auditors of the Treasurer's Accounts on the part of the Society. VOL. XXVIII. B |