JUI.Y, 1905.] 



SCIENTIFIC PUBLICATIONS 



OF THE 



ROYAL DUBLIN SOCIETY. 



PART. 



TRANSACTIONS : 



Quarto, Published in Parts, stitched. 



CONTENTS OF VOLUME I. (New Series). 



1. — On Great Telescopes of the Future. By Howard Grubb, p.r.a.s. 

 (November, 1877.) 



2. — On the Penetration of Heat across Layers of Gas. By G. J. Stoney, 

 m.a., f.r.s. (November, 1877.) 



3. — On the Satellites of Mars. By Wentworth Erck, ll.d. (May, 1878.) 



4. — On the Mechanical Theory of Crookes's, or Polarization Stress in 

 Gases. By G. J. Stoney, m.a., f.r.s. (October, 1878.) 



5. — On the Mechanical Theory of Crookes's Force. By George Francis 

 Fitz Gerald, m.a., f.t.c.d. (October, 1878.) 



6. — Notes on the Physical Appearance of the Planet Mars, as seen with 

 the Three-foot Reflector at Parsonstown, during the Opposition of 

 1877. By John L. E. Dreyer, m.a. Plates I. and II. (Nov. 1878.) 



7. — On the Nature and Origin of the Beds of Chert in the Upper Carbo- 

 niferous Limestone of Ireland. By Professor Edward Hull, m.a., 

 f.r.s., Director of the Geological Survey of Ireland. And On the 

 Chemical Composition of Chert and the Chemistry of the Process by 

 which it is formed. By Edward T. Hardman, f.c.s. Plate III. 

 (November, 1878.) 



8. — On the Superficial Tension of Fluids and its Possible Relation to Mus- 

 cular Contractions. By G. F. Fitz Gerald, m.a., f.t.c.d. (December, 

 1878.) 



9. — Places of One Thousand Stars observed at the Armagh Observatory. 

 By Rev. Thomas Romney Robinson, d.d., ll.d., d.c.l., p.r.s., &c. 

 (February, 1879.) 



10. — On the Possibility of Originating Wave Disturbances in the Ether by 

 Means of Electric Forces. Part I. By George Francis Fitz Gerald, 

 m.a., f.t.c.d. (February, 1880.) 



