CONTENTS. XI 



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 9. On a Wave Apparatus for Lecture purposes, to illustrate Fresnel's concep- 

 tion of Polarised Light. By C. J. Woodward, B.Sc 563 



10. On a Microscope with arrangements for illuminating the sub-stage. By 

 Edward Ceosslet, F.R.A.iS 563 



11. On a New Polarising Prism. By Professor Silvanus P. Thompson, 

 B.A., D.Sc 563 



12. On an Overlapping Spectroscope. By James Love, F.R.A.S., F.G.S. ... 564 



13. On Change of Density at the Melting Point. By James Love, F.R.A.S., 

 F.G.S. 564 



14. On Drops and Capillarity. By Dr. T. Woods 565 



16. On Binaural Audition. — Part III. By Professor Silvanus P. Thompson, 



B.A., D.Sc 565 



16. On Diflerential Resolvents. By the Rev. Robert Haeley, F.R.S 565 



17. An Analvsis of Relationships. By A. Macfarlane, M.A., D.Sc, 

 F.R.S.E.' 566 



Section B.— CHEMICAL SCIENCE. 



THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 1. 



1. Report of the Committee on the Method of Determining the Specific 

 Refraction of Solids from their Solutions 567 



2. On a Process for Utilising Waste-products and Economising Fuel in the 

 Extraction of Copper. By J. Dixon 567 



3. On Metallic Compounds containing Bivalent Hydrocarbon Radicals. 

 PartlL ByJ. Sakttrai 567 



Address by Professor A. W. Williamson, Ph.D., LL.D., F.R.S., V.P.O.S., 



President of the Section 568 



4. On the Chemical Action between Solids. By Professor T. E. Thorpe, 

 Ph.D., F.R.S 580 



6. On the First Two Lines of Mendelejeif s Table of Atomic Weights. By 

 W. Weldon, F.R.S.E •. 580 



6, On the Occlusion of Gaseous Matter by Fused Silicates at High Tem- 

 peratures, and its possible connection with Volcanic Agencies. By 



L LowTHiAN Bell, F.R.S 680 



7. On the Siliceous and other Hot Springs in the Volcanic District of the 

 North Island of New Zealand. By Wm. Lant Carpenter, B.A., B.Sc, 

 F.C.S 580 



FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 2. 



1. Second Report of the Committee upon the present state of our Knowledge 



of Spectrum Analysis 582 



2. On thQ Fluid Density of certain Metals. By Professor W. Chandler 

 RoBEETs, F.R.S., and T. Wrightson 682 



3. On the Oxides of Manganese. By V. H. Velet, B. A 682 



4. On the Inferences deducible from high Molecular Weights, as exhibited by 

 the Oxides of Manganese. By Professor W. Odling, F.R.S 582 



5. On Manganese Nodules, and their Occurrence on the Sea-bottom. By 



J. Y. Buchanan 583 



6. On Brewing in Japan. By Professor R. W. Atkinson, B.Sc. (Lond.) ... 685 



