Fourth Series. Vol. 7 : No. 2. 



MEMOIRS AND PROCEEDINGS 



OF 



THE MANCHESTER 



LITERARY & PHILOSOPHICAL 



SOCIETY. 

 1892-93. 



CONTENTS. 



Proceedings - pp. 159, 177, 188, 189 



Memoirs : — 



General, Morphological, and Histological Index to the 

 Author's Collective Memoirs on the Fossil Plants of the 

 Coal Measures. Part II. By William Crawford 

 Williamson, LL.D., F.R.S., &c.. Foreign Member of 

 the Royal Swedish Academy ; Corresponding Member 

 of the Royal Society of Gottingen, and of the Queckett 

 Microscopical Club ; Honorary Fellow of the Royal Micro- 

 scopical Society of London ; Honorary Member of the 

 Physical and Natural History Society of Geneva ; of the 

 Literary and Philosophical Societies of Manchester, 

 Scarborough, and Whitby ; of the Geological Society of 

 Manchester ; of the Geological and Poljrtechnic Society 

 of Yorkshire ; of the Union of the Yorkshire Naturalists, 

 and of the Field Naturalists' Societies of Liverpool, 

 Scarborough, and Manchester ; and Emeritus Professor 

 of Botany in the Owens College, Manchester - - • p. 91 



The Rate of Explosions in Gases. By Harold B. Dixon, 

 M.A., F.R.S., Professor of Chemistry in the Owens 

 College p. 128 



Comparison of Observations of Temperature taken at two 

 stations in Manchester from December 4th, 1892, to 

 January 28th, 1893. By J. Wilson. Communicated by 

 Arthur Schuster, Ph.D., F.R.S., F.R.A.S. - - p. 160 



Note on the previous paper. By Arthur Schuster, Ph.D., 



F.R.S., F.R.A.S. p. 166 



On the Length of Flame produced by the Explosion of Gases 

 in Tubes. By B. Lean, B.Sc, Dalton Chemical Scholar; 

 and H. B. Dixon, M.A., F.R.S., Professor of Chemistry 

 in the Owens College p. 169 



On some Remarks by the Right Honourable William Ewart 

 Gladstone, M.P., on the relative stability of Gold and 

 Silver as Standards of Value ; being a vindication of the 

 opinions of Ricardo and Cob^en. By F. J. Faraday, 

 F.L.S., F.S.S. p. 178 



Memoir of the late Carl Schorlemmer, LL.D., F.R.S., F.C.S. 

 By Harold B. Dixon, M.A., F.R.S., Professor of 

 Chemistry at the Owens College p. 191 



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