PEOCEEDINGS 



OF THE 



IRoigal 3n6titution of (Breat Britain 



Vol. XVIII.— Part III. 



No. 101 



1907. PAGE 



Jan. 18. Sir Andrew Noble, Bart. — Fifty Years of Explosives . . 449 



Jan. 25. Charles Welch, Esq. — The Guildhall Library 467 



Feb, 1. Sir Almroth E. Wright — The Methods of Combating the 



Bacteria of Disease in the Interior of the Organism . 7 "482 



Feb. 4. General Monthly Meeting . . . . . . . . . . 483 



Feb. 8. Professor I. Gollancz — Old English Poetry 488 



Feb. 15. Joseph Jackson Lister, Esq. — Foraminifera . . , . . . 489 



Feb. 22. DcGALD Clerk, Esq. — Flame in Gas and Petrol Motors . . 498 

 March 1. Count de Bosdari — Dante in the Critical and Poetical Works 



of Carducci . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 519 



March 4. General Monthly Meeting . . . . . . . . . . 528 



March 8. Professor David James Hamilton— Certain Seasonal Dis- 

 eases of the Sheep, and the Means of Preventing them . . 536 

 March 15. Professor George Lunge — Problems of Applied Chemistry 556 

 March 22. • Professor Joseph John Thomson — Eays of Positive Elec- 

 tricity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 577 



April 8. General Monthly Meeting . . . . . . . . . . 593 



April 12. Professor A. H. Church — Conservation of Historic Buildings 



and Frescoes . . . . . . . . . . . . , . 597 



April 19. Professor C. S. Sherrington — Nerve as a Master of Muscle 609 



Apr 26. James Swinburne, Esq. — New Hluminants . . . . . . 619 



May i. Annual Meeting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 622 



May 3. Sir James Crichton - Browne — Dexterity and the Bend 



Sinister . . . . . . . . . . 623 



May 6. General ISIonthly INIeeting . . . . . . . . . . 653 



i\Iay 10. SiGNOR CoM^ Giacomo Boni — Recent Excavations on the 



Forum Romanum, and the Forum Ulpium . . . . . , 656 



May 17. Professor George Chrystal — Seiches in the Lakes of Scot- 

 land 657 



May 24. Professor J. A. Fleming— Recent Contributions to Electric 



Wave Telegraphy 677 



.May 31. A. Henby Savage Landor, Esq. — Recent Journey across 



Africa 730 



June 3. General Monthly Meeting . . .... . . . . 711 



June 7. Professor Sir James Dewar — Studies in High Vacua and 



Helium at Low Temperatures . . . . . . . . . . 747 



July 1. General Monthly Meeting . . . . . . . . . . 715 



Nov. 4. General Monthly jV^eting . . . . . . . . . . 719 



Dec. 2. General Monthly Meeting 726 



Index to Volume Xt'III. . . . . . . . . . . . . 757 



ioNDON 

 ALBEMARLE STREET, PICCADILLY 

 July 1909 

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