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Koyal in^titxition of ^veat MtiMmyc 



Vol. XV.— Part II. 



No. 91. 



1897. PAGE 



Jan. 22. Professor Dewar — Properties of Liquid Oxygen . . . . 555 



Jan. 29. Professor Jagadis Chunder Bose — The Polarization of the 



Electric Eay 293 



Feb. 1. General Monthly Meeting 309 



Feb. 5. The Eight Eev. the Lord Bishop of London — The 



Picturesque ia History 313 



Feb. 12. Professor John Milne — Eecent Advances in Seismology , . 326 



Feb. 19. G. Johnstone Stoney, Esq. — The Approaching Return of the 



Great Swarm of November Meteors 337 



Feb. 26. Lieut.-Colonel C. R. Conder — ^Palestine Exploration . . , . 316 



Blarch 1. General Monthly Meeting 850 



March 5. Shelford Bidwell, Esq. — Some Curiosities of Vision . . . . 354 



March 12. Professor Arthur Smithells — The Source of Light in Flames 366 



March 19. Sir Edward Maunde Thompson, K.C.B.— Greek and Latin 



Palaeography . . . , 375 



March 26. Sir William Tdbner — Early Man in Scotland 391 



April 2. Charles T. Heycock, Esq.— Metallic Alloys and the Theory of 



Solution 409 



April 5. General Monthly Meeting 413 



April 9. The Right Hon. Lord Rayleigh. — The Limits of Audition . . 417 



April 30. Professor J. J. Thomson — Cathode Rays 419 



May 1. Annual Meeting 433 



May 3. General Monthly Meeting 434 



May 7. Anthony Hope Hawkins, Esq. — Romance 438 



May 14. Professor Harold Dixon — Explosion-Flames 451 



May 21, The Rt. Hon. Lord Kelvin— Contact Electricity of Metals .. 521 



May 28. Professor H. Moissan — Le Fluor 452 



June 4. W. H. Preece, Esq.— Signalling through Space without Wires 467 



June 11. William Cbookes, Esq. — Diamonds 477 



June 14. General Monthly Meeting 502 



July 5. General Monthly Meeting . . . . . . . . . . 508 



Nov. 1. General Monthly Meeting .. 511 



Dec. 6. General Monthly Meeting ^ . . . . 517 



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