March 13, 1879] 



NATURE 



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DIARY OF SOCIETIES. 



London 



THURSDAY, March 13. 



Royal Socikty, at 8.30. — The Influence of Electridty on Colliding Water 

 Drops: Lord Rayleign, F.R.S. — On the Influence of Coal-dust in Colliery 

 Explosions, No. 3 : W. Galloway. — The Contact Theory of Voltaic Action, 

 No. 3: Professors Ayrton and Perry. 



.Society op Antiquaries, at 8.30^ — Roman Columbarium at Nottingham : 

 S. D. Walker. — Archseology of Cumberland: R. S. Ferguson. 



Royal Institution, at 3. — Sound: Prof. T>-ndalL 



Mathematical Society, at 8. — On Diflerential Equations, Total and 

 Partial, and on a New Soluble Class of the First and an Exceptional Case 

 of the Second : Sir J. Ccckle, F.R.S. — Discussion of Two Double Series 

 arising from the Number of Terms in Determinants of Certain Forms: 

 J. D. H. Dickson. — A Property of the Discriminant of the Cubic: Prof. 

 H. J. S. Smith, F.R.S. 



London Institution, at 7. — English Composers for the Virginal and 

 Harpsichord: Ernest Pauer. 



Society of Arts, at 8. — Injurious Effects of Air of Large Towns: W. 

 Thomson. 



FRIDAY, March 14. 



Royal College of Surgeons, at 4. — Comparative Anatomy of Man : Prof. 

 Flower. 



Royal Institution, at 9.— History of Games: E. B. Tylor. 



Quekbtt Microscopical Club, at 8. 



SATURDAY, March 13. 



Royal Institution, at 3.— Colbert and Richelieu : W. H. Pollock. 



Geologists' Association. — ^Visit to the British Museum. A Demonstra- 

 tion on Deinosauria: Prof. H. G. Seeley, F.G.S. 

 SUNDAY, March 13. 



Sunday Lsctitbk Society, at 4.— Our Puritan Forefathers : Mrs. Fenwick 

 MUler. 



MONDAY, March 17. 



Royal College of Surgeons, at 4. — Comparative Anatomy of Man : Prof. 

 Flower. 



London Institution, at 5. — ^Life in Other Worlds : R. A. Proctor. 



Society of Arts, at 8. — Dwelling Houses: Dr. Corfield. 



Medical Society, at 8.30. 



Victoria Institute, at"8. — Geological Ages and the Mosaic Cosmogony : 

 Rev. E. Duke. 



TUESDAY, March 18. 



Zoological Society, at 8. 30. — On a New Species of Bam Owl, from the 

 Island of Viti-levu : Dr. G. Hartlaub. — On Female Deer with Antlers: 

 Edward R. Alston, F.Z.S. — Remarks on some Parrots Living in the 

 Society's Gardens : Mr. Sclater. 



Royal Insthution, at 3. — Animal Development: Pro£ Schafer. 



Society of Arts, at 8. — Africa: James Bradshaw. 



Statistical Society, at 7.45. — The Colony of Victoria; its Progress and 

 Present Position : H. H. Hayter. 



WEDNESDAY, »LutCH 19. 



Royal College of Surgeons, at 4.— Comparative Anatomy of Man : Prof. 

 Flower. 



Meteorological Society, at 7. — Dew, Mist, and Fog: George Dines. — 

 On the Inclination of the Axes of Cyclones : Rev. William Clement Ley, 

 M.A. — Contributions to the Meteorology of the Pacific. No. III. Samoan 

 or Navigator Islands: Robert H. Sc.tt, F.R.S. . 



Society of Arts, at 8. — Economical Gardens for Londoners: W. M. 

 Williams. 



Croydon Microscopical Society, at 8.30. 



THURSDAY, March ao. 



Royal Society, at 8.30. — Note on the Arc produced by a Siemen's 

 Machine ; Further Note on the Substances which produce the Chromo- 

 sphenc lines ; Note on Young's List of Chromospoeric lines ; Note on 

 some Phenomena attending the Reversal of Lines : J. Norman Lockyer. 



Royal Institution, at 3.— Sound: Prof. Tyndall. 



London I.vstitution, at 7. — Living Pianoforte Composers : E. Dann- 

 reuther. 



LiNNRAN Society, at 8.— On the Rev. T. Blackburn's Collection of New 

 Aculeate Hymenoptera from the Sandwich Islands : Fred. Smith. — On 

 the Asexual Reproduction of Ferns: Thos. Sim — On Recent Collections 

 of Buds from South Eastern New Guinea : R. Bowdler Sharpe. 



Chemical Society, at 8.— On Per-Plumbic Ethide : E. Frankland and A. 

 Lawrance. — on the Decomposition ol Water by Certain Metalloids: C. F. 

 Cross and A. Higgin. — On the Volumetric Determination of Chromiom : 

 W. J. Sole. — The Production of the Higher Oxides of Iron, Chromium, 

 Manganese, and Bismuth : W. Foster. 



FRIDAY, March 21. 



Royal College of Surgeons, at 4. — Comparative Anatomy of Man Prof. 

 Flower. 



Royal Institution, at 9.— Detonating Agents : Prof. Abel. 



SATURDAY, March 22. 

 Physical Society, at 3. 

 Royal Institution, at 3. — Etching : Seymour Haden. 



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