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7. Report of the Committee on the Meteorological Observations on Ben

8. Report of the Committee on the Reduction of Magnetic Observations...... 575

9. Report of the Committee on the Seasonal Variations in the Temperature

of Lakes, Rivers, and Estuaries

10. On the probable Nature of the Bright Streaks on the Moon. By Dr.

RALPH COPELAND, F.R.A.S., F.R.S.E.

TUESDAY, AUGUST 25.

1. Report of the Committee on Electrical Standards

2. The Causes of Variation of Clark Standard Cells. By J. SWINBURNE ... 576

3. Joint Discussion with Section G on Units and their Nomenclature,

opened by Professor OLIVER J. LODGE, F.R.S., followed by W. H. PREECE,

Some Revolutionary Suggestions on the Nomenclature of Electrical

and Mechanical Units. By Professor W. STROUD

On a Table to facilitate the Conversion of Electrostatic and Electro-

magnetic Measures into one another. By G. JOHNSTONE STONEY,

M.A., D.Sc., F.R.S.

Absolute Units of Measurement. By W. MooN

WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 26.

1. On the Measurement of Lenses. By Professor SILVANUS P. THOMPSON,

2. On a new Polariser. By Professor SILVANUS P. THOMPSON, F.R.S.

3. Some Experiments on a new Method for the Determination of 'v.' By

4. On the Magnetic Field in the neighbourhood of the South London Elec-

trical Railway. By Professor W. E. AYRTON, F.R.S., and Professor

RÜCKER, F.R.S.

5. On the Periodic Time of Tuning-Forks maintained in Vibration Electric-

ally. By Professor J. VIRIAMU JONES and T. HARRISON

6. Magretic Experiments made in connection with the Determination of the

Rate of Propagation of Magnetisation in Iron. By F. T. TROUTON...... 581

7. On the Connection between the Crystal Form and the Chemical Compo-

sition of Bodies. The Symmetry of Crystals accounted for by the Appli-

cation of Boscovich's Theory of Atoms to the Atoms of the Chemist.

By WILLIAM BARLOW, F.G.Š.

8. Report of the Committee on the Volcanic and Seismological Phenomena

9. On Phenomena which might be Observable if the Hypothesis that Earth-

quakes are connected with Electrical Phenomena be entertained. By

Professor JOHN MILNE, F.R.S.

10. Experimental Study of a Curious Movement of Ovoids and Ellipsoids.

By Professor LECONTE

11. On Vowel Sounds. By Dr. R. J. LLOYD

12. A Latent Characteristic of Aluminium. By Dr. A. SPRINGER

SECTION B.-CHEMICAL SCIENCE.

THURSDAY, AUGUST 20.

Address by Professor W. C. ROBERTS-AUSTEN, C.B., F.R.S., President of

1. Report of the Committee on International Standards for the Analysis of

Iron and Steel...........

2. Report on the Action of Light upon Dyed Colours

3. Report on the Influence of the Silent Discharge of Electricity on Oxygen

and other Gases

[blocks in formation]

1. Report of the Committee on the Formation of Haloids

2. The Spontaneous Ignition of Coal. By Professor VIVIAN B. LEWES.............. 602

3. On Nickel Carbon Oxide and its application in Arts and Manufactures.

By LUDWIG MOND, F.R.S.

4. On the Electrical Evaporation of Metals and Alloys. By W. CROOKES,

5. On the Cause of Imperfections in the Surface of Rolled Copper Alloys.

By T. TURNER, A.R.S.M.

MONDAY, AUGUST 24.

1. Certain Pyrometric Measurements and Methods of Recording them. By

Professor W. C. ROBERTS-AUSTEN, C.B., F.R.S.

2. On the Existence of a Compound in Alloys of Gold and Tin. By A. P.

3. On the Relation between the Composition of a Double Salt and the Com-

position and Temperature of the Solution in which it is formed. By

A. VERNON HARCOURT, F.R.S., and F. W. HUMPHERY

4. Some Experiments on the Molecular Refraction of Dissolved Electrolytes.

By Dr. J. H. GLADSTONE, F.R.S., and W. HIBBERT.............

5. The Action of Heat on Alkaline Hypochlorites. By Professor H. McLEOD,

6. A simple Apparatus for Storing Dry Gases. By W. SYMONS, F.C.S....... 609

TUESDAY, AUGUST 25.

1. Report on Isomeric Naphthalene Derivatives.

2. Report on Wave-length Tables of the Spectra of the Elements ............ 610

3. Report on the Absorption Spectra of Pure Compounds .........................

4. On the Specific Heat of Basalt. By W. C. ROBERTS-AUSTEN, C.B., F.R.S.,

and A. W. RÜCKER, F.R.S.

5. An Apparatus for Testing Safety Lamps. By Professor F. CLOWES, F.C.S. 611

6. On Didymium from different Sources. By Professor C. M. THOMPSON,

7. On the Nature of Solution. By Professor W. RAMSAY, F.R.S. ............ 612

8. The Interpretation of certain Chemical Reactions. By C. H. BOTHAMLEY,

9. Action of Nitrosyl Chloride on Unsaturated Carbon Compounds. By J.

J. SUDBOROUGH, B.Sc., A.I.C., F.C.S.....

10. On the Formation of Peaty Colouring Matters in Sewage by the Action

of Micro-organisms. By W. E. ADENEY, F.I.C., Assoc.R.C.Sc.I. ..... 612

11. On a new Method of Disposal of Sewage, with some references to Schemes

now in use. By C. G. MOOR, B.A.

12. The Reaction of Glycerides with Alcoholic Potash. By A. H. ALLEN,

13. Note on the Electrolysis of Alloys. By HENRY C. JENKINS, Assoc.M.

Inst.C.E., F.C.S.......

SECTION C.-GEOLOGY.

THURSDAY, AUGUST 20.

Address by Professor T. RUPERT JONES, F.R.S., F.G.S., President of the

1. Discovery of the Olenellus-zone in the North-west Highlands. By Sir

ARCHIBALD GEIKIE, F.R.S., Director-General of the Geological Survey... 633

2. On some recent Work of the Geological Survey in the Archæan Gneiss of

the North-west Highlands. By Sir ARCHIBALD GEIKIE, F.R.S., Director-

General of the Survey ...

3. Report of the Committee on the Registration of Type Specimens ...... 634

4. Remarks on the Lower Tertiary Fish Fauna of Sardinia. By A. SMITH

WOODWARD, F.G.S.

5. Evidence of the Occurrence of Pterosaurian and Plesiosaurian Reptiles in

the Cretaceous Strata of Brazil. By A. SMITH WOODWARD, F.G.S. 635

6. The Cause of Monoclinal Flexure. By A. J. JUKES-BROWNE, F.G.S. 635

7. Note on an Undescribed Area of Lower Greensand, or Vectian, in Dorset-

shire. By A. J. JUKES-BROWNE, F.G.S.

8. On the Continuity of the Kellaways Beds over extended areas near Bed-

ford, and on the Extension of the Fuller's Earth Works at Woburn.

By A. C. G. CAMERON

FRIDAY, AUGUST 21.

1. On the Discovery of the South-Eastern Coal-field. By Professor W.

BOYD DAWKINS, F.R.S.........

2. The Geology of Petroleum and Natural Gas. By W. TOPLEY, F.R.S.,

Assoc.Inst.C.E.

3. The Origin of Petroleum. By O. C. D. Ross

4. A Comparison between the Rocks of South Pembrokeshire and those of

North Devon. By HENRY HICKS, M.D., F.R.S., Sec. Geol. Soc.

5. Vulcanicity in Lower Devonian Rocks. The Prawle Problem. By W.

A. E. USSHER, F.G.S.

6. On the Occurrence of Detrital Tourmaline in a Quartz-schist west of Start

Point, South Devon. By A. R. HUNT, M.A., F.G.S.

SATURDAY, AUGUST 22.

1. Report of the Committee on the Circulation of Underground Waters 644

2. Note on the Discovery of Estheria Minuta (var. Brodieana) in the New

Red Sandstone. By C. E. DE RANCE, F.G.S.

3. Report of the Committee on Geological Photographs

4. Notes upon Colobodus, a Genus of Mesozoic Fossil Fishes. By MONTAGU

BROWNE, F.Z.S., F.G.S.

5. Report of the Committee on Earth Tremors ......

6. Report of the Committee on the Volcanic Phenomena of Vesuvius......... 645

MONDAY, AUGUST 24.

1. The Cause of an Ice Age. By Sir ROBERT BALL, F.R.S.

2. Report of the Committee on Erratic Blocks

3. Notes on the Glacial Geology of Norway. By H. W. CROSSKEY, LL.D.,

4. Recent Discoveries concerning the Relation of the Glacial Period in North

America to the Antiquity of Man. By Professor G. FREDERICK WRIGHT,

LL.D., F.G.S.A....

5. On the Evidences of Glacial Action in Pembrokeshire, and the Direction

of Ice-flow. By HENRY HICKS, M.D., F.R.S., Sec. Geol. Soc. ............ 649

6. Note on Boulders at Darley, near Matlock, Derbyshire. By HERBERT

7. Notes of a Section of Drift at Levenshulme, Manchester. By PERCY F.

KENDALL, F.G.S.

8. The Lava Beds of California and Idaho, and their relation to the An-

tiquity of Man. By Professor G. FREDERICK WRIGHT, LL.D., F.G.S.A. 651

9. Report of the Committee on Excavations at Oldbury Hill

10. Preliminary Notes on the Excavations at Oldbury Hill. By JOSEPH

PRESTWICH, D.C.L., F.R.S.

11. Report of the Committee on Elbolton Cave, near Skipton.........

TUESDAY, AUGUST 25.

1. On the Occurrence of Pachytheca and a Species of Nematophycus in the

Silurian Beds at Tymawr Quarry, Rumney. By J. STORRIE....

2. Report of the Committee on the Lias of Northamptonshire

3. The Mastodon and Mammoth in Ontario, Canada. By Professor J. HOYES

PANTON, M.A., F.G.S.

4. Note on the occurrence of Ammonites jurensis in the Ironstone of the

Northampton Sands, in the neighbourhood of Northampton. By E. T.

NEWTON, F.G.S., F.Z.S.

5. On certain Ammonite-zones of Dorset and Somerset. By S. S. BUCKMAN,

F.G.S., Hon. Memb. Yorks. Phil. Soc.........

6. Notes on the Polyzoa (Bryozoa) of the Zones of the Upper Chalk. By

GEORGE ROBERT VINE.

SECTION D.-BIOLOGY.

THURSDAY, AUGUST 20.

Address by FRANCIS DARWIN, M.A., M.B., F.R.S., President of the Sec-

1. Fourth Report of the Committee appointed for the purpose of reporting

on the present state of our knowledge of the Zoology and Botany of the

West India Islands, and taking steps to investigate ascertained deficien-

cies in the Flora and Fauna

2. Report of the Committee appointed to report on the present state of our

knowledge of the Zoology of the Sandwich Islands, and to take steps to

investigate ascertained deficiencies in the Fauna

3. Fifth Report of the Committee appointed for the purpose of taking steps

for the establishment of a Botanical Laboratory at Paradeniya, Ceylon... 678

4. Report of a Committee appointed to make a digest of the observations on

the Migration of Birds at Lighthouses and Light-vessels which have been

carried on by the Migration Committee of the British Association......... 678

5. Fourth Report of the Committee for the purpose of collecting information

as to the Disappearance of Native Plants from their Local Habitats...... 678

6. Report of the Committee appointed for the purpose of arranging for the

occupation of a Table at the Laboratory of the Marine Biological Associa-

tion at Plymouth

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