PROCEEDINGS 



1Ro\>al 3ii6titution of £reat Britain. 



Vol. XVI. -Part II. 



No. 94. 



1900. 

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The 1!ight Hon. Lukd Rayleigh— Flight 233 



The Hon. Chakles A. Parsons — Motive Power — High-Speed 



Navigation — Steam Turbines .. .. .. .. .. 23.3 



Signor G. Makconi — Wiieless Telegraphy .. .. .. 247 



General Monthly Meeting 257 



Professor J. Reynolds Green — Symbiosis and Symbiotic Fer- 

 mentation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 261 



H. Warington Smyth, Esq. — Life in Indo-China . . . . 274 



Professor John H. Poynting— Recent Studies in Gravitation 278 



Major Ronald Ross — Malaria aud Mosquitos .. .. .. 295 



General Monthly Meeting 314 



Professor Frank Clowes — Bacteria and Sewage . .. .. 317 



Sir Benjamin Stone, M.P. — Pictorial Historic Records . . 325 



Sir Andrew Noble, K.C.B. — Some Modern Explosives . . 329 



Professor J. Arthur Thomson — Facts of Inheritance . . .. 346 



General Monthly Meeting . . . . 360 



Professor Dewar — Solid Hydrogen . . . . . . . . 473 



The Right Hon. Lord Kelvin — Nineteenth Century Clouds 



over the Dynamical Theory of Heat and Light . . . . 363 



Annual Meeting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 398 



Professor T. E. Thorpe — Pottery and Plumbism . . . . 399 



Genekal Monthly Meeting . . 412 



Sidney Lee, Esq. — Shakespeare aud True Patriotism . . . . 416 



Professor J. A. Ewing — The Structure of Metala .. .. 419 



Francis Fox, Esq. — The Great Alpine Tunnels . . . . . . 422 



Sir Henry Roscoe — Bunsen . . . . . . . . . . 437 



Allan Macfadyen, M.D. — The Effect of Physical Agents on 



Bacterial Life 448 



General Monthly Meeting 458 



General Monthly Meeting . . . . . . . . . . 461 



General Monthly Meeting . . . . . . . . . . 465 



General Monthly Meeting .. .. .. .. .. 470 



LONDON: 

 ALBEMARLE STREET, PICCADILLY, 



November 1901. 



