PROCEEDINGS 



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IRo^al 3n6titution of (Breat JButtam 



1910. 

 Jan. 21. 



Jan. 28. 



Feb. 4. 

 Feb. 7. 

 Feb. 11. 



Feb. 18. 

 Feb. 25. 

 March 4. 

 March 7. 

 March 11. 



March 18. 

 April 4. 

 April 8. 



April 15. 



April 22. 



April 29. 



May 2. 



May G. 



May 9. 

 May 23. 



May 27. 



June 4. 



June 6. 

 June 10. 



July 4. 

 Nov. 7. 

 Dec. 5. 



Professor Sir James Dewar— Light Reactions at Low 



Temperatures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 921 



The Rev. Canon Beeching— The Spiritual Teaching of 



Shakespeare . j . . . .• . . . . . . . . . 735 



Professor William Bateson— The Heredity of Sex . . . . 735 



General Meeting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 736 



Charles E. S. Phillips, Esq. — Electrical and other Properties 



of Sand . . 742 



Professor H. H.,Turnbr> — Halley's Comet .'. .. .. 753 



The Right Hon. Lord Rayleigh— Colours of Sea and Sky. . 765 



Charles Chree, Esq. — Magnetic Storms . . . . . . 772 



General Meeting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 787 



H. Brereton Baker, Esq.— lonis^tion of Gases and Chemical 



Change . . - -. . . 791 



Professor Sir J. J. Thomson — The Dynamics of a Golf-Ball 795 



General Meeting ■ . . . . . . . . . . . . . , 811 



Professor Percival Lowell — Lowell Observatory: Photo- 



gtaphs of the Planets . . . . . . . . . . . . 815 



Professor William J. Pope— The Chemical Significance of 



Crystal Structure . . . . . . . . , . .•. . . 823 



T. TuoRNE Baker. Esq.— The Telegraphy of Photographs, 



Wireless and by Wire . . . . . . . . . . . . 835 



Tempest Anderson, Esq. — Matavanu : A New Volcano in 



Savaii (German Samoa) . . . . . . . . . . . . 856 



Annual Meeting . . . . . , . . , . , . . . 857 



Sir Almroth E. Wright — Auto-inoculation 858 



[In consequence of the lamented death of His Majesty King 

 Edward, the Patron of the Institution, the Evening Meet- 

 ings loere discontinued for two weeks.'] 



General Meeting . . . . . . . . . . _ _ 859 



Adjourned General Meeting . . . . . . . . . . 863 



Captain Robert F. ScoTT—The Forthcoming Antarctic 



Expedition . . . . . . , . . . . . , , . , 864 



The Right Hon. Sir Rennell RoDD^Renaissance Monu- 

 ments in the Roman Churches, and their Authors . . , . 872 

 General Meeting . . . . . . . . , . . , . . 888 



Dr. H. Deslandres— The Progressive Disclosure of the Entire 



Atmosphere of the Sun (In, French) 892 



General Meeting . . . . . , .... . , . . 908 



General Meeting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 911 



General Meeting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 917 



Index to Volume XIX, . . . . . . .... . . 929 



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