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PROCEE-DI-NGS
OF TIIE
ROYAL SOCIETY OF LON DON SERIES B
(CONTAINING PAPERS OF' A BIOLOGICAL CHARACTER
VOL. LXXXVIIe
LONIDON:
PRINTED FOR THE ROYAL SOCIETY AND SOLD BY
HARRISON AND SONS, ST. MARTIN'S LANE, PRINTERS IN ORDINARY TO HIS MAJESTY.
JUNE, 1914.
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LONDON:
HARRISON AND SONS, PRINTERS IN ORDINARY TO HIS MAJESTY,
ST. MARTIN)S LANE.
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CONTENTSo
SERIES B. VOL. LXXXVII.
No. B 592.-October 1, 1913. PAGE
Trypanosome Diseases of Domestic Animals in Nyasaland. III.---Tr,ypaqzosomna pecorum. By Surgeon-General Sir David Bruce, C.B., F.R.S., A.M.S.; Majors David Harvey and A. E. Hamerton, D.S.O., R.A.M.C. ; and Lady Bruce, R.R.C .1.................................................. I
Morphology of Various Strains of the Trypanosome causing Disease in Man in Nyasaland.-The Mzimnba Strain. By Surgeon-General Sir David Bruce, C.B., F.R.S., A.M.S.; Majors David Harvey and A. E. Hamerton, D.S.O., R.A.M.C.; and Lady Bruce, R.R.C. (Plates 1-3) ....................................... 26
The Trypanosome causing Disease in Man in Nyasaland.--Susceptibility of Animals to the Human Strain. By Surgeon-General Sir David Bruce, C.B., F.R.S., A.M.S.; Majors D)avid Harvey and A. E. Hamerton, D.S.O., R.A.M.C.; and Lady Bruce, R.R.C. .35
Plasmodi'am ceplalophi, sp. nov. By Surgeon-General Sir David Bruce, C.B., F.R.S., A.M.S.; Majors David Harvey and A. E. Hamerton, D.S.O., R.A.M.C. ; and Lady Bruce, R.R.C. (Plates 4 and 5) .45
Trypanosomes of the Domestic Animals in Nyasaland. I.-Triypanosorna simice, sp. nov. Part II.-The Susceptibility of Various Animals to T. simice. By Surgeon-General Sir David Bruce, C.B., F.R.S., A.M.S.; Majors David Harvey and A. E. HIamerton, D.S.O., R.A.M.C.; and Lady Bruce, R.R.C. 48
Trypanosomne Diseases of Domestic Animals in Nyasaland. I.-Trypanosoma sirnics, sp. nov. Part III. By Surgeon-General Sir David Bruce, C.B., F.R.S., A.M.S.; Majors David Harvey and A. E. Hamerton, D.S.O., R.A.M.C.; and Lady Bruce, R.R.C. (Plates 6-8) .58
Notes on Toxoplasmca gondii. By Helen L. M. Pixell, B.Sc., Beit Memorial Research Fellow. Communicated by Prof. E. A. Minchin, F.R.S. (Plate 9)... 67
The Growth and Sporulation of the Benign and Malignant Tertian Malarial Parasites in the Culture Tube and in the Human Host. By John Gordon Thomson, M.A., M.B., Ch.B. Edin. (Pathologist to the Royal Southern Hospital, Liverpool, and Durning-Lawrence Research Student); and David Thomson, M.B., Ch.B. Edin., D.P.H. Cantab. (Clinical and Pathological Research Assistant, School of Tropical Medicine, Liverpool). Communicated by Sir Ronald PRoss, K.C.B., F.R.S. (Plate 10) .77
nROONIAN LECTURE: The Origin of Manmmnals. By Dr. Robert Broom. (Abstract) 87
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No. B 593.-October 16, 1913. PAGOE
The Trypaniosomiies causing Dourine (Mal de Cott or Beschuilseuche). By B. Blacklock, M.D., and Warrington Yorke, M.D. Communicated by Sir Ronald Ross, K.C.B., F.R.S. (Plate 11) ................................................ 89
Studies in the Heat-prodtuction Associated with Muscular Work. (Preliminary Comnlunication: Section A.-Methods; Section B.-Results.) By J. S. Macdonald, University of Sheffield. Communicated by Prof. C. S. Sherrington, F.R.S .96
The Formation of the Anthocyan Pigments of Plants.-Part VI. By Frederick Keeble, Sc.D., F.R.S., Professor of Botany, University College, Reading; E. Frankland Armstrong, D.Sc., Ph.D., and W. Neilson Jones, M.A., Lecturer in Botany, University College, Reading ...................................................... 113
On the Question of Fractional Activity (" All or None " Phenomenon) in Mammalian Reflex Phenomena. By T. Graham Brown (Carnegie Fellow). Communicated by Prof. C. S. Sherrinigton, F.R.S . ....................................... 132
On Postural and Non-Postural Activities of the Mid-Brain. By T. Graham Brown (Carnegie Fellow). Communicated by Prof. C. S. Sherrington, F.R.S . ............ 145
Synthesis by Sunilight in Relationship to the Origin of Life. Synthesis of Formaldehyde from Carbon Dioxide anid Water by Inorganic Colloids acting as Transformers of Light Energy. By Benjamin Moore, D.Sc., F.R.S., and T. A. Webster .................................................................... 163
The Nature of the Coagulant of the Veniom of Echis carixatus, a Small Indian Viper. By J. 0. Wakelin Barratt, M.D., D.Sc. Loend. Comnmuniicated by Prof. J. N. Langley, F.R.S ..............................................................................177
No. B 594.-January 1, 1914.
Negative After-Images and Successive Contrast with Pure Spectral Colours. By A. W. Porter, B.Sc., F.R.S., Fellow of University of London University College, and F. W. Edridge-Green, M.D., F.R.C.S. 190
The Ratio between Spindle Lengths in the Spermatocyte Metaphases of hIelix pomatia. By C. F. U. Meek, M.Sc., F.L.S., F.Z.S. Communicated by Sir W. T. Thiselton Dyer, K.C.M.G., C.I.E., F.R.S. (Plate 12) .192
Neuro-Muscular Structures in the Heart. By A. F. Stanley Kent, M.A. Oxon., Professor of Physiology, University of Bristol. Communicated by Prof. C. S. Sherrinigton, F.R.S . .................................................................... 198
The Alleged Exeretion of Creatine in Carbohydrate Starvation. By George Graham, Beit Memorial Fellow, and E. P. Poulton, Radcliffe Travelling Fellow. Communicated by Dr. F. G. Hopkins, F.R.S . ............................................. 205
On lfedullosa putsilla. By D. H. Scott, LL.D., D.Sc., For. Sec. R.S. (Plate 13) ... 221
The Origin and Destiny of Cholesterol in the Animal Organism. Part XI.-The Cholesterol Content of Growing Chickens under Different Diets. By J. A. Gardner and P. E. Lander, Lindley Studenit of the University of London. Comlmunicated by Dr. A. D. Waller, F.R.S . .................................. 229
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Contributions to the Biochemistry of Growth.-On the Lipoids of Transplantable Tumours of the Mouse and the Rat. By W. E. Bullock and W. Cramer. Communicated by Sir John Bradfordl, Sec. R.S .1.......................................... 236
Studies in Heredity. II.-Further Experiments in Crossing British Species of Sea-urchins. By E. W. MacBride, F.R.S . ................................................ 240
The Optimum Temperature of Salicin Hydrolysis by Enzyme Action is Independent of the Concentrations of Substrate and Enzyme. By Arthur Coumpton, B.A., MI.B., R.U.I., Imperial Cancer Research Fund. Communicated by Sir J. R. Bradford, K.C.M.G., See. R.S ................................................................... 245
No. B 595.-February 2, 1914.
The Resonance of the Tissues as a Factor in the Transmission of the Pulse and in Blood Pressure. By Leonard Hill, M.B., F.R.S., James M. McQueen, M.A., B.Sc., M.B., and William W. Ingram, M.B., Ch.B. ........... ......................... 255
On a Method of Studying Transpiration. By Sir Francis Darwin, F.R.S . ............ 269
The Effect of Light on the Transpiration of Leaves. By Sir Francis Darwin, F.R.S. 281
The Chemical Interpretation of some Mendelian Factors for Flower-Colour. By M. Wheldale, Fellow of Newnham College, Cambridge, and H. Ll. Bassett, Trinity Hall, Cambridge. Comrmunicated by W. Bateson, F.R.S . .................. 300
On the Heat Production Associated with Muscular Work. By R. T. Glazebrook, M.A., F.YI.S., and D. W. Dye, B.Sc ........................... 311
On the Fossil Floras of the Wyre Forest, with Special Referenice to the Geology of the Coalfield and its IRelationships to the Neighbourinig Coal Measure Areas. By E. A. Newell Arber, M.A., Sc.D., F.G.S., F.L.S., Trinity College, Cambridge. Cormmunicated by Prof. T. McKenny Hughes, F.R.S. (Abstract) 317
The Determ-ination of the Minimal Lethal Dose of various Toxic Substances and its Relationship to the Body Weight in Warm-Bloodled Animials, together with Considerations bearing on the Dosage of Drugs. By Georges Dreyer, M.D., Fellow of Lincoln College, Professor of Pathology in the University of Oxford; and E. W. Ainley Walker, D.M., Fellow and Tutor of University College, Lecturer in Pathology in the University of Oxford. Communicated by Prof. C. S. Sherringtoin, F.R.S .................................................................... 319
No. B 596.-April 8, 1914.
Experiments on the Restoration of Paralysed Muscles by Means of Nerve Anastomosis. Part II.-Anastomnosis of the Nerves supplyinig Linmb Muscles. By Robert Kennedy, M. A., D.Sc., M.D., St. Munigo Professor of Surgery in the Uniiiversity of Glasgow. Coimimunicated by Prof. J. G. McKendrick, F.R.S. (Abstract) ................ .................................................... 331
Variations in the Sex Ratio of Le/s rattus Associated with an Unusual Mortality of Adult Fiemales. By F. Nornman White, M.D. (Lond.), Capt. I.M.S. Com- municated by Prof. C. J. Martin, F.R.S . ................................................... 335
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The Conduction of the Pulse Wave and the Measurement of Arterial Pressure. By Leonard Hill, F.IR.S., James McQueen, and Martin Flack ......... .................. 344
On the Floral Mechanism of WVelwitschia mirabilis, IHooker. By Arthur Harry Church, Lecturer in Botaniy, University of Oxford. Commuinicated by Prof. A. C. Seward, F.R.S. (Abstract) ............................................................ 354
The Influence of the Position of the Cut uponi Regeneration in Gunda qlvmc. By Dorothy Jordan Lloyd, B.Sc., Bathurst Student of Newnham College, Canmbridge. Communicated by J. Stanley Gardiner, F.R.S. ........ ................ 355
Investigations dealing with the Phenlomena of " Clot " Formations. Part IT.-The Formation of a Gel from Cholate Solutions having many Properties analogous to those of Cell IMembranes. By S. B. Schryver. Communicated by Prof. V. H. Blackm:ian, F.R.S. .................... 366
A New Malaria Parasite of Man. By J. W. W. Stephens, M.D., Sir Alfred Jonies Professor of Tropical Medicine, -University of Liverpool. Communicated by Sir R. Ross, K.C.B., F.R.S. (Plates 14-16) .............. ............................... 375
Formaldehyde as an Oxidation Product of Chlorophyll Extracts. By Charles HIorime Warner, B.Sc., F.I.C. Communicated by Prof. V. H. Blackman, F.R.S . ......... 378
The Action of Ligbt on Chlorophyll. By Harold Wager, F.R.S. ........ ................ 386
No. B 597.--May 15, 1914.
The Controlling Influence of Carbon Dioxide in the Mvaturationi, Dormancy, and Germinationi of Seeds. -Part 1. ly Franklin Kidd, B.A., Fellow of St. John's College, Camiibridge. Commrrlunicated by Dr. F. F. Blackman, F.B.S. ............ 408
The Functional Correlatioln between the Ovaries, Uterus, and NIaimmary Glanids in the Rabbit, witlh Observations on the (Estrouis Cycle. By J. Ilaummond, M.A., and DF. H. A. Marsball, Sc.D. Comimlunicatcd by Dr. F. G. Hopkins, F.B.S. (Plates 17 an(d 18) .................................................................... 422
Oxidationi of Thiosulphate by Certain Bacteria in Pure Culture. B y Williamii T. Lockett. Comnmunicated by Prof. P. F. Frankland, F.R.S . ..................... 441
The Productioni of Anthocyanins and Anthocyanidins. By Arthur Ernest Everest, M.Sc., Lecturer in Chemistry, University College, Reading. Comiimunicated by Prof. F. Keeble, F.R.S . ................................4.44
Variations in the Growth of Adult MHvammalian Tissue in Autogenous anid Honiogenous Plasmna. By Albert J. Walton, M.S., F.R.C.S., B.Sc. Coni- municated by Prof. W. Bullock, F.R.S. (Plates 19 and 20) ........ ................ 452
The Decomposition of Formiates by Bacillus coli communis. By Egerton Charles Grey, 1851 Exhibition Scholar. Comnmunicated by Dr. A. Harden, YELS ....... 461
The Enzymes which are Concerned in the Decomposition of Glucose and Mannitol by Bacillus coli comwnmuis. By Egerton Charles Grey, 1851 Exhibitioni Scholar. Communicated by Dr. A. Hardeni, FR.S. 5......................... 472
On the Genetics of Tetraploid Plants in Primula sinensis. By R. P. Gregory, M.A., Fellow of St. John's College, Cambridge, Uniiver sity Lecturer in Botany. Communicated by W. Bateson, F.R.S ............................. 484
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No. B 598.-June 4, 1914. PAGE
Descriptioin of a Strain of Tj?panosoma brucei from Zululand. Part 1.-Mor- phology. By Surgeon- General Sir David Bruce, C.B., F.R.S., A.M.S.; Major A. E. iaTnerton, D.S.O., and Captain D. P. Watson, R.A.M.C.; and Lady Bruce, R.R.C. (Plates 21-23) ..........................................................493
Description of a Strain of T]rypanosoma brtucei from Zululand. Part IL-Suscepti- bility of Animaals. By Surgeon-C-General Sir David Bruce, C.B., F.R.S., A.M.S.; Major A. E. Ilanierton, D.S.O., and Captain D. P. Watson, RAM.C.; and Lady Bruce, R.R.C. .......................... 511
The Trypanosome causing Disease in MAan in Nyasaland. Part Il:L-Development in lossina morsitans. By Surgeon-General Sir David Bruce, C.B., F.R.S., A.M.S.; Major A. E. iamerton, D.S.O., and Captain D. P. Watson, R.A.M.C.; and Lady Bruce, R.R.C. (Plate 24) .......................... 516
Description of a Strain of Tr-ypanosorna brucei fron Zululanld. Part I11.-Develop- ment in Gloss8ina morsitans. By Surgeon-General Sir David Biuce, C.B., F.R.S., A.M.S. ; Major A. E. Hamnerton, D.S.O., and Captain D. P. Watson, R.A.M.C. ; and Lady Bruce, R.R.C. (Plate 25) ....................................... 526
On tlhe Lack of Adaptation in the Tristichacee and Podostemacem. By J. C. Willis) M.A., Sc.D., etc., Director of the Botanic Gardens, Rio de Janeiro. Communicated by Dr. D. H. Scott, F.R.S. ................................. 532
The Action of Certain Drugs on the Isolated Huminan Uterus. By Jam-tes A. Gunn11. Commuunicated by Prof. C. S. Sherrington, F.R.S. .................................551
The Presence of Inorganic Iron Compounds in the Chloroplasts of the Green Cells of Plants, considered in Relationship to Natural Photo-synthesis and the Origin of Life. By Benjamin Moore, D.Sc., PF..S., Professor of Biochemistry, University of Liverpool ...................... 556
No. B 599.-June 24,1914.
CIOONIAN LECTURE: A New Conception of the Glomerular Functioni. By T. G. Brodie, M.D., F.R.S., Professor of Physiology in the University of Toronto. (Plate 26) ... 571
On Changes in the Glomeruli and Tubules of the Kidney accompanying Activity. By T. G. Brodie, MA1.D., P.R.S., and J. J. Mackenizie, M.B. (Plate 27) ......... 593
The Controlling Influence of Carboni Dioxide in the Maturation, Dormancy and Gernmination of Seeds.-Part II. By Franklin Kidd, B.A., Fellow of St. John's College, Cambridge. Communicated by Dr. F. F. Blackman, F.R.S. 609
OBITUARY NOTICES OF FELLOWS DECEASED.
John Lubbock, Baron Avebury; Philip Lutley Selater ................................. i-v
Index ... . . . . .......... vii
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