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Vol. XVII.-Part III. V^^^Ntft^e^wV 



Jan. 1). JiiL Right Hon. Lord Rayleigh, O.M.— Shadows .. .. 427 

 Jan. 22. Tub Rev. Walter Sidgreaves— Spectroscopic Studies of Astro- 

 physical Problems at StuDvliurot College Observatory . . . 435 

 Jan. 'J.'J. David George Hogarth, Esq. — 1 he Marshes of the Nile Delta 448 



Feb. 1. General Monthly Meeting .. 450 



Feb. 5. Alfred Austin, Esq. — Tlie Growing Distaste for the Hinlier 



Kinds of Poetry . . . . . . . . , , . . . . 454 



Feb. 12. William Napieu Shaw, Esq. —Some Aspects of Modern Weather 



Forecasting . . . . . . . , , . . . . . . . 455 



Feb. 19. C. T. R. Wilson, Esq.— Con lensation Nuclei 458 



Feb. 26. Alexander Siemens, Esq. — New Developments in Electric Rail- 



wr.ys .. 463 



March 4. Professor William Stirling— Breathing in Living Things .. 475 



March 7. General Monthly Meeting 482 



Marcb 11. Professor Fkedkrick T. Trouton— The Motion of Viscous 



Substances . . . . . . .... 486 



March 18. Henry Arthur Jones, Esq. — The Foundations of a National 



Drama . . .... 493 



March 25. Professor Dewar — Liquid Hydrogen Calorimetry - . . . . 581 



April 11. General Monthly Meeting 497 



April 15, The Right Hon. and Right Rev. Monstgnor the Cocnt Vay 



DE Vaya AND LusKOD — Korea and the Koreans .. .. 500 



April 22. Colonel David Bruce — Sleeping Sickness in Uganda . . . . 510 

 April 29. The Dean of Westminster— Westminster Abbey in the Early 



Part of the Seventeenth Century. . . . . . . . . . 519 



May 2. Annual Meeting . . . . . . 532 



May 6. P. Chalmers Mitchell, Esq. — Anthropoid Apes. . .. .533 



May 9. General Monthly Meeting . . 530 



• May 13. M. H. Spielmann, Esq.— The Queen Victoria Memorial . . . . 540 

 May 20. Professor Ernest Rutherford — The Radiation and Emanation 



of Radium . . . . . . . . . 546 



May 27. His Serene Highness Albert Prince of Monaco— The Pro- 

 gress of Oceanography . . . . . . . . . . . . 547 



June M. Professor Svante Arrhexius — The Development of the Theory 



of Electrolytic Di.ssociation . . . . , . . . . . 552 



June G. General Monthly Meeting .. .. 566 



July 4. General Monthly Meeting .. .. .. .. .. 569 



Nov. 7. General Monthly Meeting 572 



Dec. 5. General Monthly Meeting . . . . 578 



Index 597 



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