

\>-M 1AT 



Brack. Diaraa- 



A. IV 



thur li 



\ illiam 



ilnr Suspension 

 al Ap|r .mp- 





netic and 



Ham 



in 



Magnetism on Spectral Urn-*. 



t* SB of Constant Total Currvnt Shunt with 

 Ballistic (talriiiiom< <>al- 



- 



\\ . i :. 



a Hem-arch in Tlu-r- 

 aii* <>f a Platinum Ke- 



1MW _ jv II M Hi a Simple Modill- 



|,e rtoanl ; orm of the Standard 



Mih Temperature of 



..."hy 

 ..nan. and W i 



Air and Di.-i. 



Also the* foil 'nmit tees 



d. '< Hi Sei*mo" 



he Preset in Knowledge 



in Kl-<-tnly-is and Klcetric Chem On the 



L'raphy to the Klucidat i^n of 



Meteorological PI >c : - on Tahle.- .,: 



tain Mathematical Fun< at ions 



at the lien Nevis Observatory," and - on Klectrical 



B. Ckenn'*try. The opening address before this 



Section was delivered hy Prof. William Kam-ay. 



-f the discoverers of the element argon and 



..-mi-try in I'niver-ity College, I.,m- 



i - 



The subject of h: was " An t'ndi- 



sjiid : "I shall describe to you 

 later it- . uriou- properties hut it would Ix? unfair 

 n possession of the knowledge 

 <f its 'most remarkahle property it has not yet 

 been discovered. As it is still unborn, it has not 

 been nani -taming of a new element i- no 



easy matter. F..r there are only 'JO letter* in our 

 alphabet, and there are already over ?<> elements. 

 To select a name expressible by a symhol which has 

 not alreadv been claimed for one o*f the known !.- 

 - i- difticult. and the difficulty is enhanced 

 when it is at the same time required to select a 

 name which shall be descriptive of the properties 

 <or want of pn.jH-rtie-) of the element." After de- 

 was longagoas 1817 Dohereiner showed 

 that cvrt - could be arranged 



.mil also how lat.-r Mt-ndeleeff showed simi- 

 larly that the elements grouped them-clve- ; 

 tain' well-arranged classes, Pn>f. l; nt on 



tosay that subsequent to the disco very of argon and 

 helium he wa- ped the j f ati- 



d out sev.-ral con.i 



in h: -_'on and helium that 



\plaincd hy the pros*. nee ..f another 

 element, ** There should, therefore, be an undi 

 covered element between helium and ari;on. with 

 an at'iinif weight H5 unit>* high.-r than thai of heli- 

 um arnl Mann loworthan that of argon namely. 



anon, shoald prove to consist of monatomic mole- 

 cules, then its density should be half 



analogy still fu- 



to be expected that this element should be as 

 indii! with other elernenU as the two 



allied elements." 



Among the more important papers road I 

 ction w. 



W. An-: 

 llelium" and M Demonstration of the Spectra of 



II.-liiMii and A William B "CoB- 



tnlu. ' , l-larth 



V, , i-| lt ,,f Thoi-iuin." l.r 

 lit and 

 . 

 llydrogcn'in M 



.it ion of MineraU and M.-taU." IPX 

 llartli-y and II. li..- N iii..n-l i\r 



the I 1 :. and I'r..; 



Li'juid l-'iiii-ni 

 M..i->an and ,1. The I'crmealii 



1-ilemelitx of Low Atom. Ul'^eli 







Lithium and oiher Salt-." bl .1. Waddell : 



tinuation of |-;\|>ei ; ;,-i It ut ion 



and the At.v.j-pt ion 



and W. M 



tain Metal- on graphic IV. \\ . .1. 



11 : " IMmtogra: --.plo-ioii I 



Han-Id li. ;,|,. " ,in<l 



and |-'.lllores4-eni-e ..f ( '.-rtain 



Donnington; 44 The Formation < v7.L. 



\ Compound ofOzone and 



i.y I-:. 0.0. I'.aly : -The Int.-ra. t i.-n .,f Bydrobromio 

 and IJron. bi .1. \\ . vValker : - Th( 



position of Canadian Virgin 8 -hull: 



\ W. 

 II. Kill- M The Constitution of Aliphat^ 



I.y Paul < Ilir Chen; \I, t liyl.-ne." 



liy .John T. Nef ; I-'onnation 



Deduction." hy A. Lehmann : "Conih-n-ation 



:;id Amiii' A. K'lhn: 



\ \. u Ponn of P.un-cn Burner/' by Hugh 

 shall: " Molecular Movement in M- 



bsten : 'i'ti-' < .HI- - of LOM mcurred in 



containing; Tellurium." hy T. 

 l\. !!"->: "The liehaviorof Lead and of SOUP 

 Compininds toward Sulphur Dioxide." I.y II. i 

 kin-; "The Vapor Ten-ions of Liquid Mizl 

 hy W. L. Miller and T. Lv Elosebrough ; "The 

 trolytie Determination <! - md Iron ii 



Kolm : The Nitro-alcol. 

 Henri; ** The Pla-ter-of-p.-.i-i- M.;h..d in Blowpipe 



Aiinly-i>." liy \\". W. Amli 

 with Chlorine," i s.r.i. 



the following re|ori- of commilt< < 



\ and di-i-;. 

 in I'.lemeiiiary Schools" "On pr- 



>f the. 



Klements," "On the Pn.\ imat Chemical C..n-titu- 

 ent- <'f the Various Kind 



metric Naphthalene Derivatives." "On the Action 

 of Liu'lil <>n Dyed Color-." " on the lilecti. 

 Meth- ,"iantitative Analy-, 



Naphllialeiie Derivative-." "The : 

 fclon Of Haloids from Pure Material-." "TheHihli- 



iiy of Spc-tni>-op\." "The Carhohydr;;' 

 liar!. 



///. Dr. (M . r_-c M. Da \\-oii. who i- di- 



.uada. pi' 

 - was on the 



< 'amlirian K'"<-- y." 1 1- -aid : " Tl. 



t ure and : ft he more aticjei, 



North America are prohlem- particularly Canadian. 

 for th- ii their typical and mod ea-il\ 



jdnent either con-t itute or Ixirder upon the 

 continental pmtaxis of the north. The <|ii. - 

 involved are. 1 time perhap- 



! with a ci riain <!. 



world-wid. i phenomena than any of 1 



relating to later formation-, in win* r r|e- 



gree of differentiation occurred a- time advanced. 

 :ti-factory cla ilicat ion of tin - 



tallillO HX.'k- helieat I; I'aheo/oje 



was first worked out in the Canadian region hy 



Logan and hi- colleagues a classification of which 



alidity was soon after generally recogni/ed. 



