PEOCEEDINGS 



OF TBE- 



Royal Institution of Great 



Vol. XXI.-Part I. 



No. 108 



1914. PAM 



Jan. 23. Pbopessor Sir James Dewar — The Coming of Age of the 



" Vacuum Flask " 240 



Jan. 30. H. WicKH AM Steed — The Foundations of Diplomacy 1 



Feb. 2. General Meeting ... 13 



Feb. 6. H. S. Hele-Sh Aw— The Mechanics of Muscular Effort ... 19 

 Feb. }£. Professor J. Norman Collie — Production of Neon and 



, Helium by the Electric Discharge ... 20 



Feb. 20. Professor Arthur Keith— An Anthropological Study of 



some Portraits of Shakespeare and of Burns 23 



Feb. 27. Professor W. A. Bone— Surface Combustion 41 



March 2. General Meeting .\ ... 63 



March 6. T^e Rev. Canon J. 0. Hannay— The Stage Irishman ... G7 



March 13. Sir Walter R. Lawrence, Bart. — An Indian State 68 



March 20. The Right Hon. Lord Rayleigh — Fluid Motions 70 



]\Iarch 27. Professor J. A. Fleming — ^Improvements in Long Distance 



Telephony 84 



April 3, Professor Sir J. J. Thomson— Further Researches on 



Positive Rays 263 



April 6. General Meeting 113; 



April 24. Frank Watson Dyson— »The Stars around the North Pole ... 118 



May 1. Annual Meeting 137 



May 1. Edward F. Benson — A Criticism on Critics 138 



May 4. General Meeting ... 156 



May 8. Professor Karl Pearson — Albinism in Men and Dogs ... 239 

 May 15. Professor Frederick Keeble — Plant Animals : A Study in 



SjTnbiosis 160 



May 22. Robert Mond — The Mortuary Chapels of the Theban Nobles 161 

 May 29. Professor Jagadis Chunder Bose — Plant-Autographs and 



their Revelations 172 



June 5. Professor William H. Bragg — X-Rays and Crystalline 



Structure 198 



Junes. General Meeting 208 



June 12. The Hon. Walter Hines Page — Some Aspects of the 



American Democracy 214 



July 6. General Meeting 226 



Nov. 2. G:^ERAL Meeting 230 



Dec. 7. General Meeting 236 



LONDON 



ALBEMARLE STREET, PICCADILLY 



October 1917 



