PEOCEBDINGS /SoO 



OF THE I*5Q/^ 



IRo^al 3n6titution of (Breat Britain.. 





Vol. XIX. -Part I. 



No. 102 



1908. 

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Professor Sib T. E. Thorpe — The Geutenary of Davy's 



covery of the Metals of the Alkalis 

 Colonel David Bruce — The Extinction of Malta Fever 

 Professor Ernest Rutherford— Recent Researches on 



Radio-activity 

 General Meeting . . 



Humphry Ward, Esq. — Napoleon and the Louvre 

 Caleb Williams Saleeby, Esq. — Biology and Histor} 

 Sir Oliver Lodge— The Ether of Space 

 Professoji William Arthur Bone — Explosive Combustion 



with special reference to that of Hydrocarbons 

 General Meeting . . 

 Professor A. Ey H. Love — The Figure and Constitution of 



the Earth 



Chevalier G.. /Marconi — ^Transatlantic Wireless Telegraphy 

 Professor John Milne — Recent Earthquakes 

 Hon. Robert John Strutt — Radio-activQ Chang« i*"* the Earth 

 The Right Hon. LoRi^ Montagu qbs'^aulieu — The Modern 



Motor-car . . . . - . . . . . 



General IMeeting . . 



Professor Sir J. J. Thomson — ^The Carriers of Positive Elec- 

 tricity 



Annual Meeting • 



Professor Sir Joseph Larmor — The Scientific Work of Lord 



Kelvin 

 General ^Meeting . . 



John Young Buchanan, Esq. — Ice and its Natural History 

 Herbert Timbrell Bulstrode, Esq. — The Past and Future 



of Tuberculosis 

 Professor Dr. J. C. Kapteyn — Recent Researches in the 



Structure of the Universe 

 Sir Ralph Payne-Gallwey, Bart. — Ancient and Mediaeval 



Projectile Weapons other than Firearms 

 General Meeting . . 

 Professor Sir James Dewar — The Nadir of Temperature, 



and Allied Problems 

 General Meeting . . 

 General Meeting . . 

 General Meeting . . 

 Hodgkin's Trust — Essay by Professor H. E, Armstrong — 



Low Temperatur( 

 1907 . . 



Research at the Royal Institution, 1900- 



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