CONTENTS 



1908. 



1908. PAGE 



Jan. 17. — Professor T. E. Thorpe — The Centenary of 



Davy's Discovery of the Metals of the AlkaUs ... 1 



„ 24. — Colonel David Bruce — The Extinction of 



Malta Fever U 



„ 31. — Professor Ernest Rutherford — Recent Re- 

 searches on Radio-activity ... ... ... 27 



Feb. 3. — General Meeting 39 



„ 7. — Humphry Ward, Esq. — Napoleon and the Louvre 45 



„ 14. — Caleb Williams Saleeby, Esq. — Biology and 



History 47 



„ 21. — Sir Oliver Lodge — The Ether of Space ... 61 



„ 28. — Professor William Arthur Bone — Explosive 

 Combustion, with special reference to that of 

 Hydrocarbons ... ... ... ... ... 73 



March 2.— General Meeting 88 



„ 6. — Professor A. E. H. Love — The Figure and 



Constitution of the Earth ... ... ... 92 



„ 13. — Chevalier G. Marconi — Transatlantic Wireless 



Telegraphy 107 



„ 20. — Professor John Milne — Recent Earthquakes ... 131 



„ 27. — Hon. Robert John Strutt — Radio-active Change 



in the Earth 147 



April 3. — The Rioht Hon. Lord Montagu of Beaulieu 



— The Modern Motor-car 154 



„ ,6. — General Meeting 167 



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