CONTENTS. XV 



Section B.— CHEMICAL SCIENCE. 



THURSDAY, AUGUST 4. 



Page 

 Address by Professor Herbert McLeod, F.R.S., F.C.S., President of the 



Section 663 



1. Electrolytic Synthesis. By Professor A. Ceum Brown, F.R.S., F.U.S.E., 

 and Dr. J. Walker 671 



2. Impurities in Chloroform. By Professor W. Ramsat, F.R.S 671 



3. Report of the Committee on the Nature of Solution 671 



4. Report of the Committee on the Bibliography of Solution 67 1 



5. Report of the Committee on Wave-length Tables of the Spectra of the 



Elements and Compounds 671 



6. A Note on Alloys of Aluminium with Ferro-manganese. By T. W. Hogs 671 



FRIBA Y, A UG UST 5. 



1. The Explosion of Ethylene with less than its own Volume of Oxygen. By 



B. Lean, B.A., B.Sc, and W. A. Bone, B.Sc 673 



2. On the Luminosity of Hydrocarbon Flames. By Vivian B. Lewes 674 



3. Experiments on Flame. By Professor Arthur Smithells, B.Sc 674 



4. Report of the Committee on the Direct Formation of Haloids from Pure 

 Materials 675 



5. The Reaction of Hydrogen with Mixtures of Oxygen and Chlorine. By 



J. A. Haeker, D.Sc 675 



6. Preliminary Note on the Action of Dry Ammonia Gas on Sulphates. By 

 Professor W. R. Hodgeinson, Ph.D., F.R.S.E., and C. C. Trench, 

 Col. R.A 675 



7. Note on the Action of Dry Sulphur Di-oxide on Oxy-salts. By Professor 



W. R. HoDGKiNSON, Ph.D., F.R.S.E., and J. Young, A.R.S.M 676 



MONDAY, AUGUST 8. 



1. On the Application of a Hydrogen Flame in an Ordinary Safety-lamp to 



the Detection and Measurement of Inflammable Gas or Vapour. By 

 Professor Frank Clowes, D.Sc 678 



2. Report of tbe Committee on the Influence of the Silent Discharge of 

 Electricity on Oxygen and other Gases 679 



3. Report of the Committee appointed to consider the best method of esta- 



blishing an International Standard for the Analysis of Iron and Steel ... 679 



4. Notes on the Molecular Refraction and Dispersion of (a) Metallic Carbonvls, 



{b) Indium and Gallium, (c) Sulphur. By Dr. J. H. Gladstone, F.R.S. 679 



5. The Effect of Small Quantities of Foreign Matter on the Properties of 



Metals. By Professor W. C. Roberts-Austen, C.B., F.R.S 679 



6. Researches on Diffusion. By Dr. Svante Aerhenius 679 



7. The Transpiration of Hydrogen through Palladium. By Professor W. 

 Ramsay, F.R.S ." 679 



