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NATURE 



[March i, 1894 



Royal Institution, at 3.— The Vendanta Philosophy: Prof. Max Miiller. 

 Chemical Society, at 8.— Aerial Oxidation of Terpenes and Essential 



Oils : C. T. Kingzett. 

 Camera Club, at 8.— Light Waves in a Shadow ; W. B. Crofts. 

 Society of Antiquaries, at 8.30. 



FRIDA Y, March 2. 



RovAL Institution, at 9.— The Theory of the Cochlea and Inner Ear: 

 Prof. J. G. McKendrick. 



Sanitary Institute, at 8.— Scavenging Disposal of House Refuse : C. 

 Mason. 



Institution of Civil Engineers, at 7 30 (Students' Meeting). — Efficiency 

 and Economy of Elevators: Herbert W. Umney. 



Geolosists' Association (University College), at 8— The Hythe Beds 

 of the Lower Greensand, in the Liphooh and Hind Head District: Bin- 

 stead Fowler.— Tertiary Man : J. B. M. Findlay. 



SATURDAY, March 3. 



Royal In--T!TUTion, at 3. — Light, with special reference to the Optical 

 Discoveries of Newton : The Right Hon. Lord Rayleigh,-F.R.S. 



SUNDAY,Vi.\-Rcm,. { 



Sunday Lecture Society, at 4. — Glimpses of the Life, Lore, and Legend 

 of Old Japan (with Oxy-hydrogen Lantern Illustrations] : R. W. Atkin- 

 son. 



MONDAY, March 5. 



Society of Chemical Industry (Chemical Society's Rooms, Burlington 

 House), at 8.— The Zyniean Metallurgy : Admiral J. H. Selwyn.— The 

 Commercial Production of Chlorine by the Ammonia Soda Process : F. 

 Bale. — Notes on Lithographic Varnish: F. H.Leeds. 



Victoria Institute (8 Adelphi Terrace, Strand), at 8. — The Origin of 

 the Australian Race : Dr. John Eraser, F.R.S. 



TUESDA Y, March 6. 



Royal Institution, at 3. — Locomotion and Fixation in Plants and 

 Animals : Prof. C. Stewart. 



Society of Arts, at 8. — Travels in the Basin of the Zambesi : M. Foa. 



Zoological Society, at 8.30. — On the Factors that appear to have influ- 

 enced Zoological Distribution in East Africa (to be illustrated with Lan- 

 tern Slides): Dr. J. W. Gregory. — On the Habits of the Flying Squirrels 

 (Anomalurus) of the Gold Coast: W. H. Adams. — On Two Cases of 

 Colour-variation in Flat-fishes illustrating Principles of Symmetry : W. 

 Bateson. 



Sanitary Institute, at 8.— Diseases of Animals in Relation to Food 



Supply : Prof. A. W. Blyth. 

 Institution OF Civil Engineers, at 8. — Papers to be further discussed : 



The Liverpool Overhead Railway : J. H. Greathead and Francis Fox. — 



Electrical Equipment of the Liverpool Overhead Railway : Thomas 



Parker. 

 Royal Victoria Hall, at 8. — Lakes : W. W. Watts. 



WEDNESDAY, March 7. 



Society OF Arts, at 8. — Refrigerating Apparatus: Prof. Carl Linde. 



Geological Society, at 8. —The Systematic Position of th'> Trilobites: 

 H. M. Bernard. — Landscape Marble: Beeby Thompson. — On the Dis- 

 covery of Molluscs in the Upper Keuper at Shrewley in Warwickshire : 



Rev. P. B. Brodie. 



THURSDAY, March 8. 



Royal Society, at 4.30. — Croonian Lecture : The Minute Structure of 

 the Nervous System : Prof. S. Ramdn y Cajal, of Madrid 



Royal Institution, at 3. — The Vendanta Philosophy ; Prof. Max Miiller. 



Institution of Electrical Engineers (25 Great George Street, West- 

 minster. S.W.), at 8.— A Note on Parallel Working through Long Lines: 

 W. M. Mordey. 



Ca.mera Club, at 8. — Composite Heliochromy by Three-colour Printing • 

 F. E. Ives. 



Mathematical Society, at 8. — Groups of Points on Curves: F. S. 

 Macanlay. On the Buckling and Wrinkling of Plating supported on a 

 Framework under the influence of Oblique Stre^ses, and on a Simple 

 Contrivance for Compounding Elliptic Motions : G. H. Bryan. — On the 

 Motion of Two Pairs of Cylindrical Vortices which have a Common Plane 

 of Symmetry : A. E. H. Love. 



Society of Antiquaries, at 8.30. 



FRIDA Y, March 9. 



Royal Institution, at 9.— The Making of a Modern Fleet : Dr. W H. 

 White. 



Physical Society, at 5.— Calculating Machines, and especially a Nf w 

 Harmonic Analyser : Prof. O. Henrici, F.R.s. 



Sanitary In-;thutk., at 8.— Infectious Diseases and Methods of Disin- 

 fection: Dr. W. H Uainer. 



RovAL Astronomical Society, at 8. 



Malacological Society, at 8. 



SATURDAY, March 10. 



Royal Institution, at 3. -Light, with special reference to the Optical 

 Discoveries of Newton: The Right Hon. Lord Rayleigh, F.R.S. 



NO. 1270, VOL. 49J 



BOOKS, PAMPHLETS, and SERIALS RECEIVED. 



Books. — Modern Plane Geometry: G. Richardson and A. S. Ramsey 

 (Macmillan). — Essays in Historical Chemistry: Prof. T. E. Thorpe (Mac- 

 millan). — Comite International des Poids et Mesures, Seizieme Rapport 

 (Paris, Gauthier-Villars). — Travaux et Memoires du Bureau International 

 des Poids et Mesures, Tome viii. i(Paris, Gauthier-Villars). — Annuaire de 

 Observatoire Municipal de Montsouris pour I'Anrn^e 1894 (Paris, Gauthier- 

 Villars). — Light, an Elementary Text-Book, Theoretical and Practical: R. 

 T. Glazebrook (Cambridge University Pie-is). — The Flowering Plants of 

 Western India: Rev. A. K. Nairne (W. H. Allen). — Object Lessons in 

 Botany from Forest, Kield,and Garden: E. Snelgrove (Jarrold). — The Al- 

 chemical Essence and the Chemical Element : M. M. P. Muir (Longmans). 

 — Statistics of the Colony of Tasmania (Tasmania). — Hume, with Helps to 

 the Study of Berkeley: T. H. Huxley (Macmillan). 



Pamphlets- — Report of Observations of Injurious Insects and Common 

 Farm Pesfs during the Year 1893, &c. : E. A. Ormerod (Simpkin). — Die 

 Lehre von der Wellenberuhigung : Dr. M. M. Richter (Berlin, Oppenheim). 

 Twenty-fourth Annual Report of the Wellington College Natural History 

 Society. 1893 (Wellington College). — On the Definitions of the Trigono- 

 metric Functions : Prof A. Macfarlane (Boston). 



Serials — American Journal of Science, February (New Haven). — Journal 

 of the Frankl n Institute, February (Philadelphia). — Zoologische Abhand- 

 lungen — Berichte der Naturforschenden Clesellschaft zu Freiburg i. B. viii. 

 (Williams and ^forgate). — Astronomy and Astro-Physics, February (Wesley). 

 — Royal Natural History, Vol. i. Part 4 (Warne). — Proceedings of the Royal 

 Society of Victoria, Vol. vi. new series (Williams at^d Norgate). — Journal of 

 the Royal Horticultural Society. January (117 Victoria Street). — Journal of 

 the Polynesian Society, Vol. ii. No. 4 (Pctherick). — Journalof the Institution 

 of Electrical Engineers, No. 108, vol. xxii. (Spon). — Kryptogamen- Flora 

 von Schlesien, 3 Band, 2 Halfte, 2 Lief (Williams and Norgate). — Journal 

 of the Institute of Jamaica, December (Kingston). — Meteorological Record, 

 vol. xiii. No. 50 (Stanford). — Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological 

 Socie:y, January (Si^nford). — L'Anthiopologie, tome iv. No. 6 (Paris, 

 Masson). — Zeitschrift fiir Physikalische Chemie. xiii. Band, 2 Heft (Leipzig, 

 Engelmann). — The Humanitarian, March (Sonnenschein). — Journal of the 

 Royal Microscopical Society. February (Williams and Norgate). — Bulletin 

 de 1 Academie Royale des Sciences de Belgique, tome 27, No. i (Bruxelles). 

 — Journal de Physique, February (Paris). — Bulletin of the American 

 Museum of Na'ural History, vol. v. 1893 (New York). — National Academy 

 of Sciences, Vol. vi. : Eighth Memoir: Further Studies on the Brain of 

 LijHiihis polyphentiis,\v\xh Notes on its Embryology: A. S. Packard. — 

 Records of the Geological Survey of India, vol. .xxvi. Part 4 (K. Paul). 



CONTENTS. PAGE 



The Report of the Gresham University Commission 405 



Stereochemistry. By T. P 409 



Marine Boilers 410 



Our Book Shelf:— 



Sheldon: " Chapters on Electricity " 411 



Dickson : " Meteorology " 412 



Letters to the Editor :— 



Great Auk's Egg. — Prof Alfred Newton, F.R.S. 412 



Frost-Cracks and "Fossils." — Prof. G. A. Lebour 412 

 The Origin of Lake Basins. — Alfred R.;C. Selwyn, 



F.R.S 412 



Note on the Habits of a Jamaican Spider. — Prof. T. 



D. A. Cockerell 412 



The Cloudy Condensation of Steam. — Shelford Bid- 

 well, F.R.S 413 



Astronomy in Poetry. — Rev. Edward Geoghegan . 413 



A Plausible Paradox in Chances. — Lewis R. Shorter 413 



The Planet Venus. [Illustrated.) By W. J. L. . . 413 



Notes 415 



Our Astronomical Column : — 



A Large Sun-spot 419 



Anderson's Variable in Andromeda 419 



A Bright Meteor 419 



The Bakerian Lecture. By Prof. T, E. Thorpe, 



F. R.S.an.lJ. W. Rodger 419 



The Dynam cs of the Atmosphere 422 



University and Educdtional Intelligence 422 



Scientific Serials 423 



S icietics and Academies 424 



Diary of Societies 427 



Books, Pamphlets, and Serials Received 428 



