IV CONTENTS. 



1893. vm;e 



March 24. — The Right Hon. Lord Rayleigh — Interference 



Bands and their Applications .. .. .. 72 



April 10.— General Monthly Meeting .. .. „ .. 78 



,, 14. — Sir William H. Flower — Seals .. .. .. 81 



„ 21. — Professor A. B. W. Kennedy — Possible and Im- 

 possible Economies in the Utilisation of Energy 82 



„ 28. — Professor Francis Gotch — The Transmission of 



a Nervous Impulse .. .. .. .. 94 



May 1.— Annual Meeting .. .. .. .. .. 96 



„ 5. — Shelford Bid well, Esq.— Fogs, Clouds, and 



Lightning .. .. .. .. .. .. 97 



}j 8.— General Monthly Meeting .. .. .. ..108 



„ 12. — The Right Hon. Lord Kelvin — Isoperimetrical 



Problems .. .. .. .. .. .. Ill 



„ 19. — Alfred Austin, Esq. — Poetry and Pessimism (no 



Abstract) .. .. 119 



?} 26. — Herbert Beerbohm Tree, Esq. — The Imaginative 



Faculty in its relation to the Drama .. .. 120 



June 2. — Professor Osborne Reynolds — Study of Fluid 



Motion by means of Coloured Bands .. .. 129 



5.— General Monthly Meeting 139 



J5 9.— Professor T. E. Thorpe — The Recent Solar 



Eclipse 142 



July 3, -General Monthly Meeting 150 



Nov. 6.— General Monthly Meeting 153 



Dec. 4.— General Monthly Meeting ,158 



„ 15. — Special General Meeting — Decease of Dr. Tyndall, 



Honorary Professor of Natural Philosophy .. 1G1 



