PEOCEEDINGS 



OF THE 



Royal Institution of Great Britain 



Vol. XXIII.— Part I. 



No. 114 



1920. 



Jan. 16. Sir James Dewar — Low Temperature Studies 



Jan. 23. The Hon. Sir Charles Parsons —Researches at High Pres- 

 sures and Temperatures 



Jan. 30. . Sidney G. Brown — Thg Gyrostatic Compass 



Feb. 2. General Meeting 



Feb. 6. Sir Walter Raleigh — Landor and the Classic Manner 



Feb. 13. W. M. Bayliss — The Volume of the Blood and its Significance 



Feb. 20. Edward J. Russell — British Crop Production 



Feb. 27. W. B. Hardy— Problems of Lubrication 



March 1. General Meeting 



March 5. The Hon. J. W. Fortescue — Military History 



March 12. W. Rouse Ball — String Figures 



March 19. Edward McCurdy — Leonardo da Vinci 



March 26. Sir J. J. Thomson— The Scientific Work of the late Lord 

 Rayleigh 



April 12. General Meeting 



April 16. H. Maxwell Lefroy— The Menace of Man's Dispersal of 

 Insect Pests 



April 23. Sir Israel Gollancz— Shakespeare's " Shylock " and Scott's 

 " Isaac of York " 



April 30. F. 0. Bower— The Earliest-known Land Flora 



May 1. Annual Meeting 



May 3. General Meeting 



May 7. Lord Rayleigh— The Blue Sky and the Optical Properties 

 of Air 



May 14. Karl Pearson— Sidelights en the Evolution of Man 



May 21. J. A. Fleming— The Thermionic Valve in Wireless Telegraphy 

 and Telephony 



May 28. W. L. Bragg— Crystal Structure 



June 4. Sir Ronald Ross— Science and Poetry 



June 7. General Meeting 



July 5. General Meeting 



Nov. 1. General Meeting 



Dec. 6. General Meeting • 



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