Annual Report of the Council. 305 



October 1st, 1889. 



An Account of a Curious Phenomenon observed at Carrington Moss. By 

 Chas. O'Neil, F.C.S. 



On the rapidity of the Growth of Plants. By Charles Clay, M.D. 



October 15th, 1889. 



On a remarkable pattern of Asbestos Cloth on the surface of an Iron Tube. 

 By W. Thomson, F.R.S.E., F.C.S. , &c. 



Arenaria gothica [E. Fries) as a plant new to Britain. By Charles Bailey, 

 F.L.S. 



Selections from the Correspondence of Lieut. -Colonel John Leigh Philips, 

 of Mayfield, Manchester. Part I. By F. J. Faraday, F.L.S. 



October 29th, 1889. 



On the Law of Cooling, and its bearing on the Theory of the Motion of 

 Heat in Bars. By Charles H. Lees, M.Sc, Berkeley Fellow of 

 Owens College. Communicated by Arthur Schuster, Ph.D., F.R.S. 



On an apparatus for determining the viscosity of liquids, with a Biblio- 

 graphy of the subject. By W. H. Haldane Gee, B.Sc, F.C.S. 



November 12th, 1889. 



On a possible Cause of Error in taking the Temperature of Patients. By 

 Alexander Hodgkinson, M.B., B.Sc. 



A Criticism of Dr. Croll's Theory of Alternate Glacial and Warm Periods 

 in each Hemisphere, and of Interglacial Climates. By Henry II. 

 Howorth.M.P., F.S.A. 



November 26th, 1889. 



On specimens of Cuttle-fish from the Challenger Collection. By W. E. 



Hoyle, M.A., M.R.C.S. 

 Additional Note on the Rate of Dissolution of Solids. By James 



Bottomley, D.Sc, B.A., F.C.S. 

 On the Levanter Clouds at Gibraltar. By J. J. Ashworth. 



December 10th, 1889. 



On Joule's Explanation of the varying clips of Magnetic Needles of different 



lengths. By Arthur Schuster, Ph.D., F.R.S. 

 On Iridescent Chlorate of Potash. By Alexander Hodgkinson, M. B., B. Sc. 

 On the latest report of the Solar Physics Committee. By F. J. Faraday, 



F.L.S. 

 On the combination of Hydrogen and Chlorine, alone, and in presence of 



other gases. By Harold B. Dixon, M.A., F.R.S., Professor of 



Chemistry, and J. A. Harker, Research Student in the Owens 



College. 



January 7th, 1890. 



The Author of the Glacial Theoiy. By Henry H. Howorth, M.P., F.S.A. 



January 21st, 1890. 



On two unpublished letters by James Anderson, LL.D., the Scotch 



Agriculturist and Economist, dated December 24th, 1794, and July 



24th, 1795, respectively. By F. J. Faraday, F.L.S. 

 Sphenopkyllum as a branch of Asterophyliites. By A. C. Seward, M.A., 



F G.S., St. John's College, Cambridge. Communicated by W. C. 



Williamson, LL.D., F.R.S. 



