VI. CONTENTS. 



Lamb, Horace, F.R.S. — On a peculiar Spinning Property of Neolithic 



Flint Celts 58 



Lees, C. H., D.Sc — On some Photographs obtained by Prof. Rontgen, 



of Wiirzburg . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37 



Melvill, J. C, M.A., F.L.S. — On Plusia moneta 94 



On the Shore Lark . . . . .... . . 97 



Nicholson, F., F.Z.S. — On the Difficulty of Growing Thistles from 



Seed . . . . . . • . . . . . . . . . . . . 31 



Packer, D. E. — Attempts to Photograph the Sun's Corona by means 



of a Pin-hole Camera . . . . . . . . . . . . 95 



Schuster, Arthur, Ph.D., F.R.S., F.R.A.S.— On Experiments show- 

 ing the Shifting of the Lines in the Spectrum of a Metal due 

 to pressure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95 



On the Rontgen Rays . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95 



Taylor, R. L., F.C.S., F.I.C. On a Method of Liquefying Gases . . 99 



Thorp, Thomas. — On a Diffraction Grating on Speculum Metal . . 96 



Weiss, F. E., B.Sc. — On a Specimen of Dictyonema from the Man- 

 chester Museum 



and Caulerpa 



33. 57- 72, 9» 



. . TOO 



On some Specimens of Acetabularia Meditermnea 

 prolifera 



General Meetings 



Annual General Meeting 



Meetings of the Microscopical and Natural History Section : — 



Annual . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97 



Ordinary 32, 32, 37, 56, 93, 93 



Report of the Council, April, 1896, with Obituary Notices of John 

 Lawson Kennedy, H. D. Pochin, William Crawford 

 Williamson, John Russell Hind, Thomas Henry Huxley, 

 and Louis Pasteur . . . . . . . . . . . . 102 — 138 



Treasurer's Accounts . . . . . . .... . . . . 139 — 142 



Report of the Microscopical and Natural History Section, and 



Accounts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 143, 144 



List of the Council and Members of the Society . . . . 145 — 157 



PLATES. TQ pACE pAGE 



I. — To illustrate Mr. Wilde's paper on "Helium".. .. .. 10 



II. — To illustrate Mr. Wilde's paper on "The Indefinite Quanti- 

 tative Relations of the Physical and Chemical Forces" .. 70 

 III, — To illustrate Mr. Hick's paper on a " Sporangiferous Spike" 78 



