VI CONTENTS. 



1915. PAGE 



May '2^. — Sir John Jackson — Engineering Problems of 



Mesopotamia and Euphrates Valley ... ... 486 



Jnne 4. — Professor Sir Ernest Rutherford — Radiations 



fropD Exploding Atoms ... ... .. 494 



„ 7. — General Meeting ... ... ... ... ... 505 



„ 11. — Henry Walford Davies — Music and Poetry ... 510 



July f). — General Meeting 527 



Nov. 1. — General Meeting 531 



Dec. 1. — Special General Meeting ... ... ... ... 538 



„ 6. — General Meeting ... ... ... ... ... 539 



1916. 



Lecture on the Plan for Improving the Royal 

 Institution. By H. Davy, March 3, 1810. 



1916. 



Jan. 16. — Professor Sir James Dewar — Problems of Capil- 

 larity ... ... ... ... ... ... 7^6 



„ 28. — Leonard Hill— The Science of Clothing and 



the Prevention of Trench Feet ... ... 561 



Feb. 4. — Professor William Bateson — Fifteen Years of 



Mendelism ... ... ... ... ... 564 



„ 7. — General Meeting ... ... ... ... ... 565 



„ 11. — Professor W. M. Flinders Petrie — Egyptian 



Jewellery ... ... ... ... ... 570 



„ 18. — Professor Ernest G. Coker — Polarized Light 



and its Applications to Engineering ... ... 573 



„ 25. — Professor Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch — The 



Commerce of Thought ... ... ... ... 599 



March 3. — Professor Silvanus P. Thompson — Corona and 



other Forms of Electric Discharge ... ... 600 



„ 6. — General Meeting 600 



