FEBRUARY, 1903.] 
SCIENTIFIC PUBLICATIONS 
OF THE 
ROYAL DUBLIN SOCIETY. 
TRANSACTIONS: 
Quarto, Published in Parts, stitched. 
CONTENTS OF VOLUME I. (New Sznrzs). 
PART. 
1.—On Great Telescopes of the Future. By Howard Grubb, F.z.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, ut.p. (May, 1878.) 
4.—On the Mechanical Theory of Crookes’s, or Polarization Stress in 
Gases. By G. J. Stoney, m.a., r.z.s. (October, 1878.) 
5.—On the Mechanical Theory of Crookes’s Force. By George Francis 
Fitz Gerald, m.a., F.1.c.p. (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, w.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, r.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, u.a., F.7.c.D. (December, 
1878.) 
9.—Places of One Thousand Stars observed at the Armagh Observatory. 
By Rev. Thomas Romney Robinson, p.p., L1.D., D.c.L., F.R.S., &e. 
(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.7.C.D. (February, 1880.) 
