CONTENTS. 



VOL. LVI. 



No. 336. May 10, 1894. 



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 List of Candidates recommended for Election 1 



The Composition of Atmospheres which extinguish Flame. By Frank 

 Clowes, D.Sc., Lond., Professor of Chemistry, University College, 

 Nottingham 2 



Preliminary Eeport on the Results obtained with the Prismatic Camera 

 during the Total Eclipse of the Sun, April 16, 1893. By J. Norman 

 Lockyer, C.B., F.E.S 7 



Researches on Modern Explosives. Preliminary Communication. By 

 William Macnab, F.I.C., F.C.S., and E. Ristori, Assoc. M. Inst. C.E., 

 F.R.A.S 8 



On the Leicester Earthquake of August 4, 1893. By Charles Davison, 

 M. A., Mathematical Master at King Edward's High School, Birming- 

 ham 19 



The Total Solar Eclipse of 16th April, 1893. Report on Results ob- 

 tained with the Slit Spectroscopes. By E. H. Hills, Capt, R.E 20 



The Stresses and Strains in Isotropic Elastic Solid Ellipsoids in Equili- 

 brium under Bodily Forces derivable from a Potential of the Second 

 Degree. By C. Chree, M.A., Fellow of King's College, Cambridge, 

 Superintendent of Kew Observatory , 28 



List of Presents .., 28 



May 24, 1894. 



Researches on the Electrical Properties of Pure Substances. No. I. 

 The Electrical Properties of Pure Sulphur. By Richard Threlfall, 

 MA., Professor of Physics in the University of Sydney, Joseph 

 Henry Drapier Brearley,, Deas-Thomson Scholar in the University of 

 Sydney, and J. B. Allen, Exhibition Commissioners' Scholar of the 

 University of Adelaide, South Australia 32 



On the Dynamical Theory of Incompressible Viscous Fluids and the 

 Determination of the Criterion. By Osborne Reynolds, F.R.S., &c. .. 40 



On certain Functions connected with Tesseral Harmonics with Appli- 

 cations. By A. H. Leahy, M.A., late Fellow of Pembroke College, 

 Cambridge, Professor of Mathematics at Firth College, Sheffield 45 



On the Measurement of the Magnetic Properties of Iron. By Thomas 

 Gray, B.Sc., F.R.S.E., Professor of Dynamic Engineering, The Rose 

 Polytechnic Institute, Terre Haute, Indiana 49 



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