PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY OE LONDON Series B CONTAINING PAPERS OF A BIOLOGICAL CHARACTER YOL. LXXXII. LONDON: P rinted for THE ROYAL SOCIETY and Sold by HARRISON AND SONS, ST. MARTIN’S LANE, PRINTERS IN ORDINARY TO HIS LATE MAJESTY. September, 1910. LONDON HARRISON AND SONS, PRINTERS IN ORDINARY TO HIS LATE MAJESTY, ST. m a r t in 's LANE. CONTENTS. -------- o o j ^ o o -------- SERIES B. VOL. LXXXII. No. B 552.—December 20, 1909. PAGE Experimental Researches on Vegetable Assimilation and Respiration. V.—A Critical Examination of Sachs’ Method for using Increase of Dry Weight as a Measure of Carbon Dioxide Assimilation in Leaves. By D. Thoday, M.A., Mackinnon Student of the Royal Society, late Frank Smart Student of the University of Cambridge. Communicated by Dr. F. F. Blackman, F.R.S.......... 1 Sleeping Sickness in Uganda.—Duration of the Infectivity of the Glossina after the Removal of the Lake-shore Population. By Colonel Sir David Bruce, C.B., F.R.S., Army Medical Service ; Captains A. E. Hamerton, D.S.O., and H. R. Bateman, Royal Army Medical Corps ; and Captain F. P. Mackie, Indian Medical Service. (Sleeping Sickness Commission of the Royal Society, 1908-09) ........................................................................................................................ 56 Glossina palpalis as a Carrier of Trypanosoma vivax in Uganda. By Colonel Sir David Bruce, C.B., F.R.S., Army Medical Service; Captains A. E. Hamerton, D.S.O., and H. R. Bateman, Royal Army Medical Corps ; and Captain F. P. Mackie, Indian Medical Service. (Sleeping Sickness Commission of the Royal Society, 1908-09) ................................................................................. 63 On the Presence of Haem-agglutinins, Haem-opsonins, and Heemolysins in the Blood obtained from Infectious and Non-Infectious Diseases in Man. (Third Report.) By Leonard S. Dudgeon, F.R.C.P. Lond., and H. A. F. Wilson. Communicated by Dr. F. W. Mott, F.R.S............................................................................................ 67 No. B 553.—January 14, 1910. The Germicidal Action of Metals and its Relation to the Production of Peroxide of Hydrogen. By Allan C. Rankin, M.D., Demonstrator in Bacteriology, McGill University, and Assistant in Bacteriology, Royal Victoria Hospital, Montreal. Communicated by J. G. Adami, F.R.S....................................................................... 78 Gametogenesis of the Gall-Fly, Neurotems lenticularis ( baccarum).— Part I. By Leonard Doncaster, M.A., Lecturer on Zoology, Birmingham University. Communicated by Prof. W. Bateson, F.R.S. (Plates 1-3) ........... 88 Preliminary Note upon the Cell Lamination of the Cerebral Cortex of Echidna, with an Enumeration of the Fibres in the Cranial Nerves. By Edgar Schuster, D.Sc., Fellow of New College (Pathological Laboratory, Clay bury Asylum, Essex, and Department of Comparative Anatomy, University Museum, Oxford). Communicated by Dr. F. W. Mott, F.R.S. (Plates 4 and 5) .............................. 113 IV PAGE Cortical Lamination and Localisation in the Brain of the Marmoset. By F. W. Mott, M.D., F.RS. ; E. Schuster, D.Sc. ; and W. D. Halliburton, M.D., F.RS. (Plates 6 and 7 ).......................................................................................................... 124 The Caudal Fin of Fishes (Preliminary Paper). By Richard H. Whitehouse, M.Sc. Birm. Communicated by Prof. F. W. Gamble, D.Sc., F.R.S............................... 134 Some Experiments with the Venom of Causus rhombeatus. By H. E. Arbuckle, M.B., West African Medical Service. Communicated by A. Alcock, C.I.E., F.R S......................................................... 144 On the Comparative Action of Stovaine and Cocaine as measured by their Direct Effect upon the Contractility of Isolated Muscle. By V. H. Veley, F.R.S., and A. D. Waller, F.RS. ............................................................................................... 147 No. B 554.—February 3, 1910. Address of the President, Sir Archibald Geikie, K.C.B., at the Anniversary Meeting on November 30, 1909 ............................................................................................... 151 The Velocity of Reaction in the “ Absorption ” of Specific Agglutinins by Bacteria, and in the “ Adsorption” of Agglutinins, Trypsin, and Sulphuric Acid by Animal Charcoal. By Georges Dreyer, M.A., M.D., Professor of Pathology in the University of Oxford ; and J. Sholto C. Douglas, M.A., B.M., Philip Walker Student in Pathology in the University of Oxford, formerly Radcliffe Travelling Fellow. Communicated by Prof. F. Gotch, F.R.S............................. 168 On the Absorption of Agglutinin by Bacteria and the Application of Physico­ chemical Laws thereto. By Georges Dreyer, M.A., M.D., Professor of Pathology in the University of Oxford ; and J. Sholto C. Douglas, M.A., B.M., Philip Walker Student in Pathology in the University of Oxford, formerly Radcliffe Travelling Fellow. Communicated by Prof. F. Gotch, F.R.S............. 185 Observations on the Rate of Action of Drugs (Alcohol, Chloroform, Quinine, Aconitine) upon Muscle as a Function of Temperature. By V. H. Veley, F.R.S., and A. D. Waller, M.D., F.R.S.................................................................................. 205 An Examination of the Physical and Physiological Properties of Tetrachlorethane and Trichloretliylene. By V. H. Veley, F.R.S...................................... ................ 217 The Photochemical Formation of Formaldehyde in Green Plants. By S. B. Schryver, D.Sc., Ph.D., Lecturer on Physiological • Chemistry in University College, London. Communicated by Prof. E. H. Starling, F.R.S......................... 226 No. B 555.—March 3, 1910. Further Observations on the Pathology of Gastric Ulcer. (Progress Report.) By Charles Bolton, M.D., D.Sc., F.R.C.P., Director of the Research Laboratories, University College Hospital Medical School, Assistant Physician to University College Hospital. Communicated by Prof. Sidney Martin, F.R.S. (Plates 8 and 9) ......................................................................................................................... 233 On the Action of Antimony Compounds in Trypanosomiasis in Rats : being a Report to a Sub-Committee of the Tropical Diseases Committee of the Royal Society. By John D. Thomson, M.B., C.M., and Arthur R. Cushny, M.D., F.R.S. ....................................................................................................................... 249 V PAGE Amakebe : A Disease of Calves in Uganda. By Colonel Sir David Bruce, C.B., F.R.S., Army Medical Service ; Captains A. E. Hamerton, D.S.O., and H. R. Bateman, Royal Army Medical Corps ; and Captain F. P. Mackie, Indian Medical Service. (Sleeping Sickness Commission of the Royal Society, 1908-09.) (Plate 10) ................................................................................................ 256 The Transmission of Trypanosoma leioisi by the Rat-flea (Preliminary Communication.) By E. A. Minchin, M.A., and J. D. Thomson, M.A., M.B., C.M. Communicated by Sir Ray Lankester, K.C.B., F.R.S............ 273 On the Relative Sizes of the Organs of Rats and Mice bearing Malignant New Growths. By Dr. F. Medigreceanu (Bucharest). Communicated by Dr. J. Rose Bradford, Sec. R.S......................................................................................................... 2^6 The Contrast in the Reactions to the Implantation of Cancer after the Inoculation of Living and Mechanically Disintegrated Cells. By M. Haaland, M.D., Imperial Cancer Research Fund. Communicated by Dr. J. Rose Bradford, Sec. R.S..............................................•........................................................................... 293 Further Evidence on the Homogeneity of the Resistance to the Implantation of Malignant New Growths. By E. F. Bashford, M.D., and B. R. G. Russell, M.D., Imperial Cancer Research Fund. Communicated by Dr. J. Rose Bradford, Sec. R.S......................................................................................................... 2^8 No. B 556.—May 10, 1910. Contributions to the Biochemistry of Growth.—The Total Nitrogen Metabolism of Rats bearing Malignant New Growths. By W. Cramer and Harold Pringle. Communicated by Prof. E. A. Schafer, F.R.S............................................................ 307 Contributions to the Biochemistry of Growth.—Distribution of Nitrogenous Sub­ stances in Tumour and Somatic Tissues. By W. Cramer and Harold Pringle. Communicated by Prof. E. A. Schafer, F.R.S........................................................... 315 The Alcoholic Ferment of Yeast-juice. Part Y.—The Function of Phosphates in Alcoholic Fermentation. By Arthur Harden, F.R.S., and William John Young (Biochemical Laboratory of the Lister Institute of Preventive Medicine)........... 321 The Causes of Absorption of Oxygen by the Lungs. (Preliminary Communication.) By C. Gordon Douglas, B.M., Fellow of St. John’s College, and J. S. Haldane, M.D., F.R.S., Fellow of New College, Oxford......................................................... 331 The Action of Nicotine and other Pyridine Bases upon Muscle. By Y. H. Yeley, F.R.S., and A. D. Waller, F.R S................................................................................ 333 Preliminary Note on the Origin of the Hydrochloric Acid in the Gastric Tubules. By Mabel Purefoy FitzGerald (Oxford), Communicated by Prof. A. B. Macallum, F.R.S..........................................................................................................