PBOCEEDINGS 



1Ro\>nI 3n6titution of (Breat Britain 



Vol. XX. Part II 



No. 106 



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Jan. 19. Pkofessor Sib Jaaj^s Dewar— Heat Problems 



Jan. 26. Pkofessor Bebtram Hopkinson — The Pressure of a Blow 

 Feb. 2. Sir James Mackenzie Davidson — Vital Effect's of Radium 



niid other Rays 



Feb. 5. General Meeting 



Feb. 9. John Allen Habker, Esq. — Very High Temperatures 



Feb. 10. The Rt. Hon. Sir John H. A. MACi^ONALD-Tho Road: Past, 



Present aud Future 

 Feb. 23. George K. B. Elphinstone, Esq.— The Gyrostatic Compass 



and Practical Applications of Gyrostats 

 March 1. William J. S. Lockyer, Esq. — The Total Solar Eclipse in the 



South Pacific, April 1911 



March 1. General IMeeting 



March 8. A. W. Ward, Esq —The Effects of the Thirty Years' War 



March 15. Frederick Soddy, E^q.— The Origin of Radium 



March 22. Pbufessob D'Abcy W. Thompson— The North Sea and its 



Fisheries 



March 29. Pbofessor Sir J. J. Thomson— Results of the Application of 



Positive Rays to the Study of Chemical Problems 



April 1. General Meeting 



April 19. Alan A. Campbell Swinton, Esq. — Electricity Supply : Past, 



Present and Future 



April 26. Sir George H. Darwin— Sir William Herschel 



May 1. Annual Meeting 



May 3r W. C. Dampier Whethaai, Esq.— The Use of Pedigrees 



May 6. General Meeting ... 



May 10. Professor W. Stirling— The Gaumont Speaking Cinemato- 

 graph Films 



May 17. W. Duddell, Esq.- High Frequency Currents 



May 21. A. D. Hall, Esq.— Recent Advances in Agricultural Science 



The Fertility of the Soil 



May 81. Professor Howard T. Barnes— Icebergs and their Location 



in Navigation 



June 3. General Meeting 



June 7. Sir William Macbwen — Lord Lister 



June 14. , (Extra Evening.) A. Henry Savage Landob, Esq. — Unkuowu 



Parts of South America 



July 1. General Meeting 



Nov. 4. General Meeting 



Dec. 2. General Meeting 



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