iv REPORT — 1897. 



REPORTS ON THE STATE OF SCIENCE. 



{^An asterisk * indicates tJiat tJie title only is given. The mark •(■ indicates the same 

 hut a reference is given to the journal or newspaper where it is published in extenso.] 



Page 

 Corresponding Societies Committee. — Report of the Committee, consisting of 

 Professor R. Meldola (Chairman), Mr. T. V. Holmes (Secretarj^), Mr. 

 Fkancis Galton, Sir Douglas Galton, Sir Rawson Rawson, Mr. G. J. 

 Stmons, Dr. J. G. Garson, Sir John Evans, Mr. J. Hopkinson, Professor 

 T. G. BoNNEY, Mr. W. Whitaker, Professor E. B, Poulton, Mr. Cuthbert 

 Peek, and Rev. Canon H. B. Tristram 23 



Report on the State of the Principal Museums in Canada and Newfoundland. 

 By Henry M. Ami, M.A., D.Sc, F.G.S 62 



Wave-length Tahles of the Spectra of the Elements and Compounds. — Report 

 of the Committee, consisting of Sir H. E. Roscoe (Chairman), Dr. Mar- 

 shall Watts (Secretary), Sir J. N. Lockyer, Professors J. Dewar, G. D. 

 LiTEiNG, A. Schuster, W, N. Hartley, and Wolcott Gibbs, and 

 Captain Abney. (Drawn up by Dr. Watts.) 75 



Tables of Certain Mathematical Functions. — -Interim Report of the Committee, 

 consisting of Lord Rayleigh (Chairman), Lieut.-Colonel Allan Cunning- 

 ham (Secretary), Lord Kelvin, Professor B. Price, Dr. J. W. L. Glaisher, 

 Professor A. G. Greenhill, Professor W. 31. Hicks, Major P. A. Mac- 

 Mahon, and Professor A. Lodge, appointed for calculating Tables of certain 

 Mathematical Functions, and, if necessary, for taking steps to carry out the 

 Calculations, and to publish the results in an accessible form 127 



The Application of Photography to the Elucidation of Meteorological Pheno- 

 mena. — Seventh Report of the Committee, consisting of Mr. G. J. Symons 

 (Chairman), Professor R. Meldola, Mr. J. Hopkinson, Mr. H. N. Dickson, 

 and Mr. A. W. Claxden (Secretary). (Drawn up by the Secretary.) 128 



Seismological Investigation. — Second Report of the Committee, consisting of 

 Mr. G. J. Symons (Chairman), Dr. C. Davison and Mr. John Milne 

 (Secretaries), Lord Kelvin, Professor W. G. Adams, Dr. J. T. Botiomley, 

 Sir F. J. Bramwell, Professor G. H. Darwin, Mr. Horace Darwin, 

 Major L. Daewin, Mr. G. F. Deacon, Professor J. A. Ewing, Professor 

 C. G. Knott, Professor G. A. Lebour, Professor R. Meldola, Professor 

 J. Perey, Professor J. H. Poynting, and Dr. Isaac Roberts 12D 



I. Report of Work done for the establishment of a Seismic Survey 

 of the World, drawn up by John Milne, F.R.S., F.G.S 129 



II. Records of the Gray-Milne Seismograph. By John Milne, 



F.R.S., F.G.S 132 



III. The installation and working of Milne's Horizontal Pendulum. 



By John Milne, F.R S., F.G.S 137 



