CONTENTS. 



VOL. LXXIV. 



No. 497. July 19, 1904. 



On the Combining Properties of Serum-Complements and on Comple- 

 mentoids. By Eobert Muir, M.D., Professor of Pathology, Univer- 

 sity of Glasgow, and Carl H. Browning, M.B., Ch.B., Joseph Coats 

 Research Scholar, University of Glasgow. Communicated by Sir J. S. 

 Burdon-Sanderson, Bart, F.R.S 1 



On the General Circulation of the Atmosphere in Middle and Higher 

 Latitudes. By W. N. Shaw, F.R.S., Secretary of the Meteorological 

 Council 20 



On the Structure and Affinities of Pakeodiscus and Agelacrinus. By 

 W. K. Spencer, B.A., F.G.S., Burdett Coutts Scholar, University of 

 Oxford. Communicated by Professor W. J. Sollas, F.R.S. (Plate 1) 31 



On the Action of Radium Emanations on Diamond. By Sir William 

 Crookes, F.R.S 47 



On a Direct Method of Measuring the Coefficient of Volume Elasticity 

 of Metals, etc. By A. Mallock, F.R.S 50 



On the Relation between the Spectra of Sunspots and Stars. By Sir 

 Norman Lockyer, K.C.B., LL.D., F.R.S 53 



On the Physical Relation of Chloroform to Blood. By A. D. Waller, 

 M.D., F.R.S 55 



On the Magnetic Changes of Length in Annealed Rods of Cobalt and 

 Nickel. By Shelford Bidwell, M.A., Sc.D., F.R.S 60 



No. 498. August 10, 1904. 



A Generalisation of the Functions r (n) and x n . By Rev. F. H. 

 Jackson, R.N. Communicated by Professor J. Larmor, Sec. R.S 64 



The Advancing Front of the Train of Waves emitted by a Theoretical 

 Hertzian Oscillator. By A. E. H. Love, F.R.S., Sedleian Professor 

 of Natural Philosophy in the University of Oxford. (Plates 26).... 73 



On Flame Spectra. By Charles de Watteville. Communicated by 

 Arthur Schuster, F.R.S. (Abstract) 84 



The Retardation of Combustion by Oxygen. By Henry E. Armstrong, 

 PhJX, F.R.S 36 



