VI CONTENTS. 



1S94. TAGE 



May 7.— General Monthly Meeting 282 



11.— The Rev. S. Baring-Gould— English Folk Song 286 



„ 18. — Professor A. M. Worthington — The Splash of 



. a Drop and Allied Phenomena .. .. .. 289 



,, 25. — Sir Howard Grtjbb — The Development of the 



Astronomical Telescope .. .. .. .. 304 



June 1.— Professor Oliver Lodge — The Work of Hertz .. 321 



„ 4. — General Monthly Meeting .. .. .. .. 350 



„ 8. — C. Vernon Boys, Esq. — The Newtonian Constant 



of Gravitation .. .. .. .. .. 353 



July 2.— General Monthly Meeting 378 



Nov. 5.— General Monthly Meeting 383 



Dec. 3.— General Monthly Meeting .. .. .. .. 388 



1895. 



Jan. 18. — Professor Dewar— Phosphorescence and Photo- 

 graphic Action at the Temperature of Boiling 



Liquid Air .. .. .. .. .. 6G5 



„ 25. — Sir Colin Scott-Moncrieff — The Nile .. .. 405 



Feb. 1. — Henry Irving, Esq. — Acting: an Art .. .. 419 



M 4.— General Monthly Meeting 429 



„ 8. — G. Sims Woodhead, M.D. — The Antitoxic Serum 



Treatment of Diphtheria .. .. .. .. 433 



„ 15. — Clinton T. Dent, Esq. — Mountaineering.. .. 451 



„ 22. — Professor A. Schuster — Atmospheric Electricity 4G0 



March 1. — The Kev. Canon Ainger — The Children's Books 



of a Hundred Years Ago (no Abstract) .. .. 47 G 



„ 4.— General Monthly Meeting .. 477 



