PEOCEEDINGS 



OF THE 



IRo^al 3n6titution of (Breat 



Vol. XVIII.—Part II. 



No. 100 



Professor Joseph John Thomson — Some Applications of the 



Theory of Electric Discharge to Spectroscopy . . . . 193 



Arthur C. Benson, Esq. — Walter Pater^ . . . . . . . 207 



Professor Silvanus P. Thompson — The Electric Production 



of Nitrates from the Atmosphere 225 



General Monthly Meeting . , . . . . . . . . 227 



Hugh Frank Newall, Esq. — Eclipse Problems and Observa- 

 tions 231 



W. C. Dampier Whetham, Esq. — The Passage of Electricity 



through Liquids . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 245 



Professor John Oliver Arnold — The Internal Architecture 



of Metals 252 



Richard Caton, M.D. — Hippocrates and the Newly Discovered 



Health Temple at Cos . . . . . . 258 



General Monthly Meeting . . . . 266 



Robert Hutchison, M.D. — Some Dietetic Problems . . . . 269 



W. DuDDELL, Esq. — How to Improve Telephony . . . . 274 



The Right Hon. Earl Roberts — Imperial Defence . . . . 279 



Professor P. Zeeman — Recent Progress in Magneto-Optics . . 289 



General Monthly Meeting 801 



William Bate Hardy, Esq. — Physical Basis of Life . . . . 392 

 Professor John W. Gregory — Ore Deposits and their Dis- 

 tribution in Depth . . . . . . . . . . . . 305 



Annual Meeting .. .. .. 322 



The Hon. Charles A. Parsons — The Steam Turbine on Land 



and at Sea .. .. .. .. .. 323 



General Monthly Meeting . . 335 



Professor J. H. Poynting — Some Astronomical Consequences 



of the Pressure of Light . . . . . . . . . . . . 339 



Professor Arthur Schuster — International Science . . 342 



Leonard Hill, Esq. — Compressed Air and its Physiological 



Efiects 364 



Professor H. Moissan — L'Ebullition des M6taux . . . . 377 

 Professor Sir James Dewar — Studies on Charcoal and 



Liquid Air 433 



General Monthly Meeting . . . . 416 



General Monthly Meeting . . . . . . . . . . 420 



General Monthly Meeting . . . . . , . . . 423 



General Monthly Meeting . . 429 



LONDON 

 ALBEMARLE STREET, PICCADILLY 



Decemher 1907 



