CONTENTS. 



1858. 



Page 



Nov. 1. — General Monthly Meeting 1 



Dec. 6. — General Monthly Meeting 3 



1859. 



Jan. 28.— W. R. Grove, Esq. — On the Electrical Discharge, 



and its Stratified Appearance in Rarefied Media . 5 

 Feb. 4. — Professor Owen — On the Gorilla . . . .10 



„ 7.— General Monthly Meeting 30 



„ 11. — Edmund Beckett Denison, Esq. — On some of the 

 Grounds of Dissatisfaction with Modern Gothic 

 Architecture ....... 32 



„ 18. — Somerville Scott Alison — On certain Auditory 



Phaenomena : (delivered by Professor Tyndall) 63 

 „ 25. — Professor Faraday — On Schonbein's Ozone and 



Antozone ........ 70 



March 4.— Professor Tyndall — On the Veined Structure of 



Glaciers 72 



„ 7. — General Monthly Meeting 79 



„ 1 1 . — William Odling, M.B. — On Magnesium, Calcium, 



Lithium, and their Congeners . . . .80 

 „ 18. — Rev. Walter Mitchell — On a New Method of 

 rendering, visible to the Eye some of the more 

 abstruse Problems of Crystallography . . .86 

 „ 25. — Robert Angus Smith, Esq.— On the Estimation of 



Organic Matter in the Atmosphere . . .89 

 April 1. — Nevil Story Maskelyne, P^sq. — On the Insight 

 hitherto obtained into the nature of the Crystal 

 Molecule by the instrumentality of Light. . . 95 

 „ 4.— General JMonthly Meeting — Letter and Donation 



from Sir Henry Holland lOG 



