PEOCEEDINGS 



OF THE '^ ■■ .■ 



IRo^al 3n0titution of (Breat B^tein 



Vol. XVIII.— Part I. 



No. 99 



1905. 

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Peofessor Sir James Dewar — New Low Temperature 



Phenomena 177 



Edward A. Wilson, Esq. — The Life History of the Emperor 



Penguin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 



Professor T. Clifford Allbutt — Blood Pressure in Man . . 3 



General Monthly Meeting . . 6 



Cecil Smith, Esq.— The Art of the Ionian Greeks . . . . 10 



John W. Gordon, Esq. — High Power Microscopy . . . . 11 



Professor Marshall Ward — Fungi 23 



Chevalier G. Marconi — Kecent Advances in Wireless 



Telegraphy 31 



General Monthly Meeting . . . . . . . , . . 46 



Professor J. J. Thomson— The Structure of the Atom . . 49 

 Sir Squire Bancroft — Dramatic Thoughts: Retrospective — 



Anticipative . . . , . . . . 64 



Sir Oliver Lodge — A Pertinacious Current . . . . . . 79 



Professor Joseph Wright — The Scientific Study of Dialects 87 



General Monthly Meeting 91 



Alfred Mosely, Esq. — American Industry 94 



The Right Hon. Lord Rayleigh, O.M. — The Law of Pres- 

 sure of Gases below Atmosphere . . . . . . . . 96 



Annual Meeting . . 97 



Prostssor Henry E. Armstrong — Problems underlying Nu- 

 trition . . . . . . . . , . . . . . . . 98 



General Monthly Meeting 98 



Professor Ernest Fox Nichols — The Pressure due to Radia- ' 



tion 102 



Sir Charles Eliot — The Native Races of the British East 



Africa Protectorate . . 105 



Professor Julius Wilhelm Bruhl— The Development of 



Spectro-Chemistry . . . . . . . . . . . . 122 



George Henschel, Esq. — Personal Recollections of Johannes 



Brahms 136 



General Monthly Meeting . . . . 152 



Sir William H. White — Submarine Navigation . . . . 155 



General Monthly Meeting . . . . . . . . . . 165 



General Monthly Meeting . . . . . . . . . . 168 



General Monthly Meeting . . . , . . . . . . 174 



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LONDON 



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August 1906 



