xiy KEPORT — 1900. 



Section B. — CHEMISTRY. 



THUESDA Y, SEPTEMBER C] 



Page 

 Address by Professor W. II. Perkin, Jan., Ph.D., P.K.S., President of the 

 Section, on The Modern System of Teaching Practical Inorganic Chemistry 

 and its Development 681 



1. Report on the Teaching of Science in Elementary Schools (p. 187) G93 



3. On some Problems connected with Atmospheric Carbonic Anhydride and 

 on a New and Accurate Method for Determining its amount, suitable 

 for Scientific E.\;pedltions. By Professor Letts, D.Sc, Ph.D., &c., and 

 R. F. Blake, F.I.C, F.C.S 693 



3. On the Distribution of Chlorine in West Yorkshire. By William 



AcKEOTD, F.I.C 694 



4. On a limiting Standard of Acidity for Moorland Waters. By William 



AcKROTD, F.I.C 695 



5. On the Effects of Copper on the Human Body. By Thomas Whiteside 



HiME, B.A. M.D 696 



6. Interim Report ou the Continuation of the Bibliography of Spectro- 

 scopy (p. 150) 697 



7. Report on Preparing a New Series of Wave-length Tables of the Spectra 



of the Elements (p. 103) 697 



FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 7. 



1. The Specific Pleat of Gases at Temperatures up to 400° C. By II. B. 



Dixon, F.R.S., and F. W. Rixon, B.Sc 697 



2. *Interim Report on the Nature of Alloys 698 



3. Report on the Chemical Compounds contained iu Alloys. By F. H. 

 Neville, F.R.S. (p. 131) 698 



4. *0n the Mutual Relations of Iron, Phosphorus, and Carbon when together 



in 6ast Iron and Steel. By J. E. Stead 698 



5. The Crystalline Structure of Metals. By Professor J. A. Ewing, F.R.S., 



and Walter Rosenhain, B.A 698 



6. *0n the Electric Conductivity of the Alloys of Iron. By Professor AV. F. 

 Barrett, F.R.S .• 699 



7. Some new Chemical Compounds Discovered by the Use of the Electric 



Furnace. By C. S. Bradley 699 



8. Report ou the Electrolytic Methods of Quantitative Analysis (p. 171) ... 700 



3I0NDAY, SEPTEMBER 10. 



1. Derivatives of Methyl-furfural. By Henry J. Horstman Fenton, 

 F.R.S., and Miss Mildred Gostling, B.Sc 701 



■2. A Simple Method for comparing the ' Affinities ' of certain Acids. By 

 Heney J. Horstman Fenton, F.R.S., and Humphrey Owen Jones, 

 B.A., B.Sc 701 



45. *Recent Developments in Stereochemistry. By W. J. Pope 701 



4. The Constitution of Camphor. By A. Lapworth, D.Sc. Tp. 299) 702 



5. *The Degradation of Camphor. By Julius Bredt 702 



6. *The Camphor Question. By Professor Ossian Aschan 702 



7. Report on Isomeric Napthalene Derivatives (p. 297) 702 



