PROCEEDINGS 



IRopal 3nstituticm of Great Britaiiw 



Vol. XVI. -Part I. 





1899 



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May 8. 

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May 19. 



May 22. 

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June 5. 



July :-$. 

 Nov. G. 

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Pkofes.scr Dewar — Liquid Hydrogen 



The Right Hon. Sir Mountstuart E. Grant Di ff — Epitaphs 



Victor Hoksley, Esq.— The Roman Defences of South-East 



Britain 

 General Monthly Meeting 



Professor II. S. Hele-Shaw — The Motion of a Perfect Liquid 

 Richard R. Holmes, Esq.— George the Third as a Collector . . 

 Professor Oliver Lodge — Coherers 

 Sir Frederick Pollock, Bart. — King Aifred 

 General Monthly Meeting 



Professor H. L. Callendar — Measuring Extreme Temperatures 

 Professor Francis Gotch— The Electric Fish of the Nile 

 The Right Hon. Lord Rayleigh— Transparency and Opacity 

 General Monthly Meeting 



Professor A. W. Rucrer — Earth Currents and Electric Traction 

 Frederick Walker Mott, M.D.— Structure of the Brain iu 



Relation to its Functions 

 Professor C. A. Carls Wilson — Some Features of the Electric 



Induction Motor 

 Annual Meeting 

 William James Russell, Esq. Ph.D. — Pictures Produced on 



Photographic Plates in the Dark 



General Monthly Meeting . . 



Professor Thomas Preston — Magnetic Perturbations of the 



Spectral Lines 

 The Right Rev. The Lord Bishop of Bristol — Runic and 



Ogam Characters aud Inscriptions in the British Isles 

 Adjourned General Meeting 

 Sir William Martin Conway— Climbs and Explorations in the 



Andes 



General Monthly Meeting 



Celebration of the Centenary op Foundation op the 



Royal Institution, 1799-1899 



General Monthly Meeting 

 General Monthly Meeting 

 General Monthly Meeting . . 



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December 1900. 



