PROCEEDINGS 



OF THE 



Royal Institution of Great Britain 



Vol. XXII.— Part I. 



No. Ill 



1917. 

 Jan. 19. 

 Jan. 26. 

 Feb, 2. 



Feb. 5. 

 Feb. 9. 



Feb. 16. 



Feb. 23. 

 March 2. 



March 5. 

 March 9. 

 March 16. 



March 23. 

 March 30. 



April 2. 

 April 20. 



April 27. 

 May 1. 

 May 4. 

 May 7. 

 May 11. 

 May 18. 



May 25. 

 June 1. 

 June 4, 

 June 8. 



July 2. 

 Nov. 5. 

 Dec. 3. 



PA6B 



Professor Sir James Dewar — Soap Bubbles of Long Duration 179 



Professor Gilbert Murray — Epicurean Philosophy ... 1 

 Professor C. sT^ Sherrington — Recent Physiology and the 



War 1 



General Meeting 4 



Daniel Jones — Experimental Phonetics and its Utility to 



the Linguist (Illustrated) * 8 



Very Rev. H. Hensley Henson — Authors' Dedications in 



the XVIIth Century 19 



Discourse not delivered 20 



Charles F. Cross — Cellulose and Chemical Industry (1866- 



1916) 21 



General Meeting ^. 27 



Sir Almroth Wright — The Treatment of War Wounds ... 30 

 Sir John Stirling Maxwell — Scientific Forestry for the 



United Kingdom 63 



Edward Clodd — Magic in Names 75 



Professor J. H. Jeans — Recent Developments of Molecular 



Physics 77 



General IVIeeting 87 



Professor R. H. Biffen — The Future of Wheat-Growing in 



England 90 



J. DuNDAS Grant— The Organs of Hearing in Relation to War 91 



Annual Meeting 99 



H. WiCKHAM Steed— Some Guarantees of Liberty 101 



General Meeting 112 



Professor John Joly — Radioactive Haloes 115 



Professor Frederick Soddy — The Complexity of the 



Chemical Elements ... ■ 117 



J. Barcroft — Breathlessness 139 



J. H. Balfour Browne —The Brontes : a Hundred Years After 140 



General Meeting 162 



Professor Sib J. J. Thomson — Industrial Applications of 



Electrons 175 



General Meeting 165 



General Meeting 167 



General Meeting 172 



ALBEMAKLE STEEET, LONDON, W.l 

 October 1919 



