CONTENTS. V 



1909. PAGE 



Feb. 1. — General Meeting 445 



„ 5. — Peofessor James George Frazer — The Influ- 

 ence of Superstition on the Growth of Institutions 450 

 „ 12. — Professor Harold Albert Wilson — The 



Electrical Properties of Flame ... ... ... 465 



„ 19. — Sir Henry Cunynghame — Recent Advances in 



Means of Saving Life in Coal Mines ... ... 469 



„ 26. — Professor H. L. Callendar — Osmotic Pheno- 

 mena and their Modern Physical Interpretation 485 



March 1. — General Meeting 496 



„ 5. — The Right Hon. A^iscount Esher — The Letters 



of Queen Victoria ... ... ... ... 500 



„ 12. — Sidney George Brown, Esq. — Modern Submarine 



Telegraphy ... ... ... ... ... 524 



„ 19. — Richard Threlfall, Esq. — Experiments at High 



Temperatures and Pressures ... ... ... 541 



„ 26. — Arthur Stanley Eddington, Esq. — Recent 



Results of Astronomical Research ... ... 561 



April 2. — Professor Sir J. J. Thomson — Electrical Stria- 



tions 577 



„ 5. — General Meeting ... ... ... ... ... 586 



„ 23. — Alexander Siemens, Esq. — Tantalum and its 



Industrial Apphcations ... ... ... ... 590 



„ 30.— Edmund Gosse, Esq.— The Pitfalls of Biography 598 



May 1.— Annual Meeting 600 



„ 3. — General Meeting 601 



„ 7. — Major Ronald Ross — The Campaign against 



Malaria 605 



' „ 14. — Professor George E. Hale — Solar Vortices and 



Magnetic Fields 615 



„ 21. — Hon. Ivor Churchill Guest, M.P. — Afforesta- 

 tion 631 



