CONTENTS. Vll 



1898. PAGE 



March 25. — The Very Eev. The Dean of Canterbury, D.D. 



— Canterbury Cathedral .. .. .. .. 698 



April 1. — Professor Dewar — Liquid Air as an Analytic 



Agent 815 



„ 4— General Monthly Meeting 699 



„ 22.— W. H. M. Christie, Esq. C.B.— The Recent 



Eclipse .. 810 



„ 29. — Professor Andrew Gray — Magneto-Optic Rota- 

 tion and its Explanation by a Gyrostatic Medium 703 



May 2.— Annual Meeting 722 



„ 6. — Edward A. Minchin, Esq. — Living Crystals .. 723 



„ 9.— General Monthly Meeting .. .. .. ..732 



„ 13. — Professor W. A. Tilden — Recent Experiments 

 on Certain of the Chemical Elements in relation 



to Heat .. .. 735 



„ 20.— The Right Hon. D. H. Madden— The Early Life 



and Work of Shakespeare .. .. .. 743 



„ 27. — Lieut.-General The Hon. Sir Andrew Clarke 



— Sir Stamford Raffles and the Malay States .. 754 



June 3. — Professor W. M. Flinders Petrie — The Develop- 

 ment of the Tomb in EgyjDt 769 



„ 6.— General Monthly Meeting ,. 783 



„ 10. — The Right Hon. Lord Rayleigh — Some Experi- 

 ments with the Telephone .. .. .. 786 



July 4.— General Monthly Meeting 789 



Nov. 7. — General Monthly Meeting 793 



Dec. 5. — General Monthly Meeting 799 



Index to Volume XV 830 



