VI CONTENTS. 



1885. Page 



Dec. 7.— General Monthly Meeting 325 



„ 29. — Notes on Professor Dewar's Lectures on the 



et seq. Story of a Meteorite .. .. .. .. 328 



1886. , 



Jan. 22. — Professor Ttndall. — Thomas Young .. .. 553 



„ 29. — Sir William Thomson. — Capillary Attraction ,. 483 



Feb. 5. — T. Pridgin Teale, Esq. — The Principles of 



Domestic Fire-place Construction .. .. 338 



„ 12. — Professor Osborne Eeynolds. — Experiments show- 

 ing Dilatancy, a property of Granular Material, 

 possibly connected with Gravitation .. .. 354 



„ 19. — Professor W. H. Flower.— The Wings of Birds .. 364 



„ 26. — A. A. Common, Esq. — Photography as an Aid to 



Astronomy .. ,. .. .. .. 367 



March 1.— General Monthly Meeting 376 



„ 5. — Professor Alexander Macalister. — Anatomical 



and Medical Knowledge of Ancient Egypt .. 378 



„ 12. — Keginald Stuart Poole, Esq. — The Discovery of 



the Biblical Cities of Egypt 384 



^^ 19.— W. H. M. Christie, Esq.— Universal Time .. 387 



„ 26. — W. Chandler Eoberts-Austen, Esq. — On Certain 



Properties common to Fluids and Solid Metals .. 395 



April 2. — Howard Grubb, Esq. — Telescopic Objectives and 



Mirrors: their Preparation and Testing ,. 413 



„ 5.— General Monthly Meeting 433 



^^ 9. — William Anderson, Esq. — New Applications of 



the Mechanical Properties of Cork to the Arts .. 436 



„ 16. — Professor Sir Henry E. Roscoe, M.P. — Recent 



Progress in the Coal Tar Industries .. .. 450 



