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75-446
OF THE
ROYAL SOCIETY OF LONDON.
From April 25, 1895, to June 20, 1895.
VOL. LVIII.
LONDON:
HARRISON AND SONS, ST. MARTIN'S LANE,
Printers in Ordinary to Her Majesty.
MDCCCXCV.
HARRISON AND SONS, PRINTERS IN ORDINARY TO HER MAJESTY,
ST. MARTIN'S LANE.
CONTENTS.
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No. 347.
A Research into the Elasticity of the Living Brain and the Conditions
Governing the Recovery of the Brain after Compression for short
Periods. By A. G. Levy, M.B. (London)..
On the Temperature of the Carbons of the Electric Arc; with a Note
on the Temperature of the Sun. Experiments made at Daramona,
Streete, Co. Westmeath. By W. E. Wilson, M.R.J.A., and P. L.
Gray, B.Sc., A.R.C.S.
Page
1
24
No. 348.
The Stresses and Strains in Isotropic Elastic Solid Ellipsoids in Equi-
librium under Bodily Forces derivable from a Potential of the Second
Degree. By C. Chree, M.A., Fellow of King's College, Cambridge,
Superintendent of Kew Observatory....
Micro-Metallography of Iron. Part I. By Thomas Andrews, F.R.S.,
M.Inst.C.E.....
April 25, 1895.
On a Gas showing the Spectrum of Helium, the reputed cause of D3,
one of the Lines in the Coronal Spectrum. Preliminary Note. By
William Ramsay, F.R.S., Professor of Chemistry, University College,
London.......
On the new Gas obtained from Uraninite. Preliminary Note. By J.
Norman Lockyer, C.B., F.R.S.........
Acokanthera Schimperi: its Natural History, Chemistry, and Pharma-
cology. By Thomas R. Fraser, M.D., LL.D., F.R.S., Professor of
Materia Medica in the University of Edinburgh; and Joseph Tillie,
M.D., F.R.S.E., Lecturer on Experimental Pharmacology in the Uni-
versity of Edinburgh..................
The Development of Asterina gibbosa. By E. W. MacBride, B.A.,
Demonstrator of Animal Morphology to the University of Cambridge.
[Title only.].................
List of Presents
No. 349.-May 2, 1895.
J
List of Candidates recommended for Election
Helium, a Gaseous Constituent of certain Minerals. Part I. By
William Ramsay, F.R.S., Professor of Chemistry in University
College, London
Alternate Current Dynamo Electric Machines. By J. Hopkinson,
FR.S., and E. Wilson
Note on the Relations of Sensory Impressions and Sensory Centres to
Voluntary Movements. By H. Charlton Bastian, M.D., F.R.S.,
Professor of Clinical Medicine in University College, London
The Fasciola Cinerea; its Relation to the Fascia Dentata and to the
Nerves of Lancisi. By Alex Hill, M.D., Master of Downing
College
An Attempt to Cultivate Parasitic Protozoa from Malignant Tumours,
Vaccinia, Molluscum Contagiosum, and certain Normal Tissues,
together with Infection Experiments carried out with the Culture
Media, and a Note on the Treatment of Cancer. By Samuel G.
Shattock and Charles A. Ballance. [Title only.].
May 9, 1895.
Bakerian Lecture.-On the Laws of Connexion between the Conditions
of Chemical Change and its Amount. By A. Vernon Harcourt, M.A.,
F.R.S., Student of Christ Church, and Lee's Reader in Chemistry,
and William Esson, M.A., F.R.S., Fellow of Merton College and
Deputy Savilian Professor of Geometry in the University of Oxford.
III. Further Researches on the Reaction of Hydrogen Dioxide and
Hydrogen Jodide
On the new Gas obtained from Uraninite. Second Note. By J.
Norman Lockyer, C.B., F.R.S.
108
113
On the new Gas obtained from Uraninite.
Third Note. By J.
116
Action du Fluor sur l'Argon. By M. Henri Moissan
120
122
May 16, 1895.
On Measurements of small Strains in the Testing of Materials and
Structures. By J. A. Ewing, M.A., F.R.S., Professor of Mechanism
and Applied Mechanics in the University of Cambridge
123
The Electrical Measurement of Starlight. Observations made at the
Observatory of Daramona House, co. Westmeath, in April, 1895.
Preliminary Report. By G. M. Minchin, M.A.
142
The Complete System of the Periods of a Hollow Vortex Ring. By
H. C. Pocklington, B.A., Fellow of St. John's College, Cambridge 155
India's Contribution to Geodesy. By General J. T. Walker, R.E.,
C.B., F.R.S., LL.D., late Surveyor-General of India
157
159
May 30, 1895.
On the Temperature Variation of the Thermal Conductivity of Rocks.
By Lord Kelvin, P.R.S., and J. R. Erskine Murray, B.Sc., 1851
Exhibition Scholar
The Kinematics of Machines. By T. A. Hearson, M.Inst.C.E., Pro-
fessor of Mechanism and Hydraulic Engineering, Royal Indian
Engineering College, Coopers Hill
On the Effect of Pressure of the Surrounding Gas on the Temperature
of the Crater of an Electric Arc Light. Preliminary Notes of Obser-
vations made at Daramona, Streete, co. Westmeath. By W. E.
Wilson............
Note on the Motions of and within Molecules; and on the Significance
of the Ratio of the two Specific Heats in Gases. By G. Johnstone
Stoney, M.A., D.Sc., F.R.S.
On the Velocities of the Ions. By W. C. Dampier Whetham, M.A.,
Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge..
162
167
174
177
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188.
No. 350.-June 13, 1895.
Election of Fellows........
191
On the new Gas obtained from Uraninite. Fourth Note. By J.
Norman Lockyer, C.B., F.R.S..............
192
On the new Gas obtained from Uraninite. Fifth Note. By J. Nor-
man Lockyer, C.B., F.R.S.
Further Observations on the Organisation of the Fossil Plants of the
Coal-Measures. Part III. Lyginodendron and Heterangium. By
W. C. Williamson, LL.D., F.R.S., Emeritus Professor of Botany in
the Owens College, Manchester, and D. H. Scott, M.A., Ph.D.,
F.R.S., Honorary Keeper of the Jodrell Laboratory, Royal Gardens,
Kew
On the Origin of the Triradiate Spicules of Leucosolenia. By E. A.
Minchin
193.
195
204
Experimental Degenerations following Unilateral Lesions of the Cortex
Cerebri in the Bonnet Monkey (Macacus Sinicus). By E. Linden
Mellus, M.D.
206
On the Cause of the Differences in Lichtenberg's Dust-Figures. Pre-
liminary Note. By Silvanus P. Thompson, D.Sc., F.R.S..
214
Theorems on the Attraction of Ellipsoids for certain Laws of Force
other than the Inverse Square. By Dr. E. J. Routh, F.R.S................. 215
217