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Other Resolutions adopted by the General Committee
lxxxiv
General Meetings
c
Report of the Committee appointed for Improving and Experimenting
7
Report of the Corresponding Societies Committee consisting of Mr FRANCIS
41
41
123
First Report of the Committee consisting of Mr G J SYMONS Chairman
130
Report of the Committee consisting of Professor O J LODGE Professor CAREY
139
Second Interim Report of the Committee consisting of Dr JOHN KERR
147
Interim Report of the Committee consisting of Professor CAYLEY Professor
160
Interim Report of the Committee consisting of Professor THORPE Professor
263
Fifth Report of the Committee consisting of Professors TILDEN MCLEOD
273
Report provisional of a Committee consisting of Professors H E ARM
274
Second Report of the Committee consisting of Dr H WOODWARD Chair
299
Report of the Committee consisting of Messrs H BAUERMAN F W RUDLER
312
Second Report of the Committee consisting of Professor JAMES GEIKIE Chair
321
Report of the Committee consisting of Mr G J SYMONS Mr C DAVISON
333
Report of the Committee consisting of Dr H WOODWARD Chairman
334
Report of the Committee consisting of Mr J W DAVIS Chairman Rev
351
Draft of Report of the Committee consisting of Professor FLOWER Chair
357
Report of a Committee consisting of Professor NEWTON Mr JOHN CORDEAUX
363
Report of the Committee consisting of Dr P L SCLATER Professor
365
Report of the Committee consisting of Professor A C HADDON Professor
382
Report of the Committee consisting of Professor FLOWER Chairman
404
Report of the Committee consisting of Professor FLOWER Chairman
405
678
448
Fifth Report of the Committee consisting of Sir JOHN LUBBOCK Dr JOHN
449
On the Capture of Comets by Planets especially their Capture by Jupiter
511
The Recent Progress of Agriculture in India By C L TUPPER
532
SECTION A MATHEMATICAL AND PHYSICAL SCIENCE
547
Report on Researches relative to the Second Law of Thermodynamics
558
SATURDAY AUGUST 22
564
Report of the Committee on the Phenomena accompanying the Discharge of Electricity from Points
565
On the Magnetic Field in the neighbourhood of the South London Elec
581
On Vowel Sounds By Dr R J LLOYD
583
Report on the Bibliography of Solution
602
On the Relation between the Composition of a Double Salt and the Com
608
An Apparatus for Testing Safety Lamps By Professor F CLOWES F C S
611
Evidence of the Occurrence of Pterosaurian and Plesiosaurian Reptiles
635
On the Continuity of the Kellaways Beds over extended areas near Bed
636
Vulcanicity in Lower Devonian Rocks The Prawle Problem By
642
On the Evidences of Glacial Action in Pembrokeshire and the Direction
649
Report of the Committee on Elbolton Cave near Skipton
652
BIOLOGY
660
Nonsexual Formation of Spores in the Desmidiaceae By A W BENNETT
678
On recent Investigations of the Marine Biological Association Fishery
685
On the Recent Visitation of Plutella Crucifera By W FREAM
695
New Form of Appendicularian Haus By Geo SWAINSON F L S
701
The Homology of Continents By Dr HUGH R MILL F R S E
715
The Volta River By G DOBSON
722
Address by Professor W CUNNINGHAM D D D Sc F S S President
723
On the Coal Question By T FORSTER BROWN M Inst C E
736
SATURDAY AUGUST 22
742
Address by T FORSTER BROWN M Inst C E President of the Section
749
On Mechanical Ventilation and Heating of Buildings By W KEY
758
On some of the Peculiarities to be observed in Portland Cements and
764
Recent Progress in the Use of Electric Motors By Professor G FORBES
771
On the Internal and External Work of Evaporation By W WORBY
777
On the Comparative Values of various Substances used as Nonconduct
780
The Social and Religious Ideas of the Chinese as illustrated in the Ideo
796
Burial Customs of New Britain By the Rev B DANKS
802
The First SeaWanderings of the English Race By W M ADAMS
808
INDEX
817
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Page 154 - As a unit of resistance, the international ohm, which is based upon the ohm equal to 10" units of resistance of the CGS system of electromagnetic units, and is represented by the resistance offered to an unvarying electric current by a column of mercury at the temperature of melting ice, 14.4521 grams in mass, of a constant cross-sectional area and of the length of 106.3 centimetres.
Page xxv - Committees for the several Sections before the beginning of the Meeting. It has therefore become necessary, in order to give an opportunity to the Committees of doing justice to the several Communications, that each Author should prepare an Abstract of his Memoir, of a length suitable for insertion in the published Transactions of the Association, and...
Page 155 - The liquid should consist of a neutral solution of pure silver nitrate, containing about 15 parts by weight of the nitrate to 85 parts of water. The resistance of the voltameter changes somewhat as the current passes. To prevent these changes having too great an effect on the current, some resistance besides that of the voltameter should be inserted in the circuit. The total metallic resistance of the circuit should not be less than 10 ohms.
Page 545 - Great is the rejoicing of those who are benefited thereby ; and, for the moment, science is the Diana of all the craftsmen. But, even while the cries of jubilation resound and this flotsam and jetsam of the tide of investigation is being turned into the wages of workmen and the wealth of capitalists, the crest of the wave of scientific investigation is far away on its course over the illimitable ocean of the unknown.
Page xxvii - Secretary for presentation to the Committee of Recommendations. Unless this be done, the Recommendations cannot receive the sanction of the Association. NB — Recommendations which may originate in any one of the Sections must first be sanctioned by the Committee of that Section before they can be referred to the Committee of Recommendations or confirmed by the General Committee.
Page 154 - Ampere, which is one-tenth of the unit of current of the CGS system of electromagnetic units and which is represented sufficiently well for practical use by the unvarying current which, when passed through a solution of nitrate of silver in water, in accordance with a certain specification, deposits silver at the rate of 0.001118 of a gramme per second.

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