SUMMARY OF CONTENTS 



The Table of Contents, pp. vii to xl, gives much detail and contains 

 all the notes and comments which occurred to the author when collecting 

 the papers for publication. 



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No. 1. RECENT ANTARCTIC EXPLORATION. (From the Quarterly 



Review, October, 1906, p. i.) I 



This article contains principally a critical discussion of 

 the discoveries made by Captain Scott in the " Discovery" 

 in the year 1902, with those made by Sir James Ross in the 

 "Erebus" and "Terror" in the year 1842, in the region of 

 the great Antarctic Ice Barrier. 



No. 2. CHEMICAL AND PHYSICAL NOTES. (Contributed to the 



Antarctic Manual, 1901.) 25 



These Notes were prepared for the use of the Chemist 

 and Physicist of an Antarctic Expedition. They were 

 suggested by the author's own experience, and they are 

 confined to matters of observation and experiment, all 

 hypothetical matter being excluded. 



No. 3. ON ICE AND BRINES. (From the Proceedings of the 



Royal Society of Edinburgh, 1887, Vol. xiv, p. 129.) . 130 



The result of this experimental investigation was to prove 

 that the ice formed during the freezing of sea-water and 

 similar saline solutions is pure ice, and that its saltness is 

 due to residual brine which is enclosed in the crystals ; 

 further, that snow or other pure ice melts in a saline solution 

 at the same temperature as that at which the solution freezes. 



No. 4. ON STEAM AND BRINES. (From the Transactions of the 

 Royal Society of Edinburgh, 1899, Vol. XXXIX, Pt III, 



No. 18.) '5' 



The results recorded in this paper run parallel with those 

 obtained for Ice and Brines, and establish the fact that 

 steam, water and salt can be used to produce Boiling 

 Mixtures of constant temperature, higher than that of the 

 saturated steam itself; that steam produced by a boiling 

 saline solution leaves that solution with the same tempera- 

 ture as that of the boiling solution itself ; and that pure 

 steam passed into a saline solution raises it to a maximum 

 temperature, which is its own temperature of ebullition. 

 Blagden's Law is shown to hold in the case of boiling saline 

 solutions in the same measure as it holds in the case of 

 freezing saline solutions. It is demonstrated that Blagden's 

 Law, in both cases, is identical with the thermal law of 

 mixture. 



