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Water, 567 ; Mr. E. H. Griffiths on a Special Form of 

 Resistance Hox, 567 ; I'rofs. Elster and Cleitel, Investiga- 

 tions as to the Cause of the Surface Colourisation of 

 Colourless Salts (KCl, NaCl) by the Kathode Rays, dis- 

 covered by Goldstein, 567 ; Mr. J. Burke on Change of 

 Absorption accompanying Fluorescence, 567 ; Lord Kelvin, 

 Magnus Maclean, and Alexander Gait on the Communica- 

 tion of Electricity from Electrified Steam to Air, 622 

 Section B (Chemistry). — Opening Address by Dr. Ludwig 

 Mond, F.R.S. (Presidentof the Section), 475; Prof. II. B. 

 Dixon, E. II. Strange, and E. Graham on Reflected Waves 

 in the Explosion of Ga.ses, 583 ; Dr. J. H. Gladstone and 

 Mr. W. Hibbert on the Contrast between the Action of 

 Metals and their Salts on Ordinary Light and on the New 

 Rays, 583 ; Prof. F. Clowes on the Limiting Explosive 

 Proportions of Acetylene, and Detection and Measurement 

 of this Gas in the Air, 583 ; Dr. A. W. Titherley on the 

 Amides of the Alkali Metals and some of their Derivatives, 



554 ; Prof. Oscar Liebreich on Diminution of Chemical 

 Action due to Limitations of Space, 584 ; Dr. Wildennann 

 on the Velocity of Reactions before Perfect Equilibrium 

 takes place, 584 ; Dr. J. Bradshaw on the Behaviour of 

 Litmus in Amphoteric Solutions, 584 ; Messrs. A. G. 

 Green and A. Wahl on the Constitution of Sun Yellow or 

 Curcumine and allied Colouring Matters, 584 ; Dr. F. E. 

 Francis on .\bnormalties in the Behaviour of Ortho-deri- 

 vatives of Orthamido-, and Orthonitro-benzylamine, 584 ; 

 Mr. W. Newton on Nitrates : their Occurrence and Manu- 

 facture, 5S4 ; Prof. Ramsay on the very Remarkable and 

 Abnormal Properties of Helium, 584 ; Dr. F. Hurler on 

 the Manufacture of Chlorine by means of Nitric Acid, 584 ; 

 Prof. !• Dewar on Low Temperature Research, 584 ; Dr. 

 L Haldane on his Calorimetric Method of Estimating 

 small amounts of Carbon Monoxide in the Air, 584 ; Sir 

 H. E. Roscoe on Chemical Education in England and 

 Germany, 585 ; Science Teaching in Elementary Schools, 



555 ; Report of the Committee on the Constituents of 

 Barley Straw, 585 ; Proximate Constituents of Coal, 585 ; 

 on Quantitative Methods of Electrolysis, 585 



Section C (Geology)— O^enmg Address by J. E. Marr, 

 F.R.S. (President of the Section), 494 ; Sir W. Dawson 

 on pre-Cambrian Fossils, 585 ; Dr. G. ¥. Matthews on the 

 Larval Characters of Entromostraca, Brachiopods, and 

 Trilobites in those Faunas which preceded that of Para- 

 lioxides, 585 ; Sir Archibald Geikie on some Rocks 

 hitherto described as Volcanic Agglomerates in Anglesey, 

 585 ; Mr. Greenly on the Quartzite Lenticles, 585 ; Mr. 

 W. W. Watts on Ancient Rocks in Charnwood Forest, 

 585 ; Messrs. Howard and Small on the Rocks of Skomer 

 Island, 585 ; Prof. Boyd Dawkins on the Geology of the 

 Isle of Man, 586 ; Mr. Garwood's Report on the Work on 

 Carboniferous Zones, 586 ; Mr. II. C. Beasley on Foot- 

 prints from the Trias in the Neighbourhood of Liverpool, 



556 ; Mr. Morton on a Boring near Altcar and another 

 Boring on the West of Bidston Hill, 586 ; Mr. Montagu 

 Browne on the True Bone-bed of Aust Cliff and the 

 Piillastra arenicola Bed which occurs above it, 586 ; Mr. 

 H. B. Woodward's Notes on Sections along the London 

 Extension of the Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire 

 Railway, 586 ; Glacial Geology, 5S6 ; Mr. A. Bell on the 

 Tertiary Deposits of North Manxland, 586 ; Mr. Kendal 

 on certain River Valleys in Yorkshire which have changed 

 their direction in part since the Glacial Period, 586 ; Mr. 

 Kendal and Mr. Lomas on the Glacial Phenomena of the 

 Clwyd Valley, 586 ; Dr. Callaway on the .Superficial 

 Deposits of Shropshire, 586 ; Mr. Clement Reid on the 

 Paleolithic Deposits of Hoxne, 586 ; Prof. Hull on the 

 Great Uplift of the West Indian Islands, 586 ; Mr. Mellard 

 Reade on the Evidence of Land Oscillation near Liverpool, 

 587 ; Mr. Morton on the Sea-coast of Wirral, 587 ; Prof. 

 Seeley on a Skull of Diademodon brought from Wonder 

 Boom, 587 ; Dr. Johnston- Lavis on the Interpretation 

 placed by Messrs. Weed and Pirsson in an Igneous Mass in 

 the Highwood Mountains, Montana, 587 ; Physical and 

 Dynamical Geology, 587 ; Mr. Kendal on the Effects of 

 Solution on Organisms with Aragonite and on those with 

 Calcite Shells, 587 ; Prof. Milne on his Seismological 

 Oliservations during the Year in the Isle of Wight, 587 



Section D (Zoology) — Opening Address by Prof. E. B. Poul- 

 ton, F.R.S. (President of the Section), 500, R. T. Glinther 



on Roman Oyster Culture, 605 ; Walter Garstang on Utility 

 of Specific Character in Crabs, 605 ; Dr. C. II. Hurst, 605 ; 

 Rev. T. R. R. Stebbing, 605 ; Prof. C. L. Morgan on Neo- 

 Lamarckism, 605 ; F. Enock on Life-History of Tiger- 

 Beetle, 605 ; J. W. Woodall on Dannevig's Fludevigen 

 Salt-water Fish Hatchery, 605 ; Dr. [. Hjort, 605 ; Rev. 

 Canon Tristram on Bird Migration, 606 ; Dr. Gaskcll on the 

 Ancestry of the Vertebrates ;Prof.W. F. R. Weldon, F.R.S., 

 606; Prof C. S. Minot, 606; E. W. Mc Bride, 606: 

 Walter Garstang, 606; F. A. Bather, 606; Prof. C. S. 

 Minot on the Theory of Panplasm, 606 ; \\. W. McBride 

 on Value of Morphological Methods in Zoology, 606 ; F. 

 A. Bather, 606 ; A. T. Masterman on I'lioronis, 607 ; E. 

 W. McBride, 607 ; A. T. Masterman on some Efifects of 

 Pelagic Spawning on the Life-Histories of Marine Fishes, 

 607. 



Section E (Geography) — G. F. Scott Elliot on the Influence 

 of African Climate and Vegetation on Civilisation, 587 ; Sir 

 Charles Wilson on the Geography of the Egyptian Sudan, 

 588 ; H. S. Cowper on a Journey in the Tarhuna anil 

 M'Salata Districts of Tripoli. 588 ; Rev. W. K. R. Bed- 

 ford on some Old Tapestry Maps of Parts of England, 58S : 

 Mr. \'aughan Cornish on the Formation and Distribution of 

 Sand-dunes, 5S8 ; G. G. Chisholm on the Relativity of Geo- 

 graphical .Advantages, 589 



Section G (Mechanical Science) — Opening Address by Sir 

 Douglas Fox (President of the .Section), 510 ; Mr. Beau- 

 mont on Cause of Failure of Railway Rail, 607 ; Prof. 

 Unwin, 608 ; Mr. Johnson, 608 ; Dr. Anderson, 608 ; Sir 

 Douglas Fox, 608 ; Prof Hele-Shaw, 608 : Mr. Spooner, 

 608 ; W. H. Wheeler, Report on Effect of Wind and 

 Atmospheric Pressure on Tides, 608 ; A. J. Maginnis on 

 Coal Consumption in British North Atlantic Mail Service, 



608 ; Colonel Watkin's Photographic Method of Comparing 

 .Screw-Gauges, 608 ; Price's Microscopical Method of Com- 

 paring Screw-Guages, 608 ; Report on Small Screw-Gauges, 



609 ; W. H. Preece on Tests of Glow-lamps, 609 ; Prof. 

 Ayrton, 609 



Section H (Anthropology) — Opening Address by Arthur J. 

 Evans (President of the Section), The Eastern Question 

 in Anthropology, 527 ; Mr. A. W. Moore and Dr. J. 

 Beddoe on Manx Anthropology, 609 ; Dr. D. Hepburn on 

 the Trinil Femur, 610 ; G. Lawrence Gomme on the 

 Method of Determining the Value of Folk-Lore as Ethno- 

 logical Data, 610 ; C. H. Read on a Proposed Ethnological 

 Bureau, 610 ; Dr. J. PI. Glad.stone on Prehistoric Metal 

 Implements, 610 ; Dr. Munro, 610 ; Prof. Ridgeway on the 

 Starting Point of the Iron Age in Europe, 610 ; Dr. Munro 

 and Prof. Boyd Dawkins on the Glastonbury Lake Village, 



610 ; Prof. Ridgeway on the Mykena'an Age, 6l0 ; Dr. O. 

 Montelius on Pre-classical Chronology in Greece and Italy, 



611 ; Prof. Petrie on Iron Tools discovered in Egypt, 611 ; 

 Arthur J. Evans on Pillar and Tree Worship in Myken^an 

 Greece, 611 ; G. Coffey on the Relation of the Stone Carv- 

 ings of the Tumuli of New Grange, Dowth, and Loughcrew to 

 Scandinavian Art, 611 ; Graf von Pfeil on the Duk-duk 

 and other Customs as Forms of Expression of the Melane- 

 sian's Intellectual Life, 611 ; F. T. Elworlhy on the Dis- 

 covery of an Ancient British Interment in .Somersetshire, 

 611 



Section I (Physiology) — Opening Address by W. H. Gaskell, 

 F.R.S. (President of the Section), The Origin of Verte- 

 brates, 551 ; Prof. Kendrick on the Application of Phono- 

 graph to Sound-Analysis, 633 ; Prof. Macallum on a means 

 of detecting Difference between Organic and Inorganic 

 Salts of Iron, 633 ; Dr. Marcet on Types of Human 

 Respiration, 633 ; Prof. Lorrain Smith and Westbrook on 

 Febrile Reaction on Inoculation with certain Bacilli, 633 ; 

 Prof. Thoinp.son on Physiological Effects of Vein-injected 

 Pepsin, 633 ; Dr. J. L. Bunch on Intestinal Nerves, 634 ; 

 Dr. Grlinbaum on Effect of Peritonitis on Peristalsis, 634; 

 Dr. Pavy on the Glucoid Constitution of Proleid, 634 ; 

 Prof. Gotch on Time Relationsof a Single Nerve-Cell, 634 ; 

 Prof Minot on a New Microtome, 634 ; Prof. Waller on 

 Conditions Modifying Electrical Response of Isolated Nerve, 

 634 ; Dr. Mann on Nerve Cells, 634 ; Dr. Buchanan on 

 Cell Granulation, 634 ; Prof Paul on some Points in Dental 

 Histology, 635 ; Dr. E. Stevenson on Efl'ect on Eye-Move- 

 ments of Destruction of Ear, 635 ; Prof. Haycraft on 

 Flicker Photometry, 635 ; Prof. Allen on Physical Basis of 



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