Vol. 42 : Part III 



MEMOIRS AND PROCEEDINGS 



OF 



THE MANCHESTER 

 LITERARY & PHILOSOPHICAL 



SOCIETY, 



1897-98. 



CONTENTS. 



Memoirs :— 



VI. On the Mechanical Equivalent of Heat. By Osborne 



Reynolds, M.A., F.R.S., and W. H. Moorby, M.Sc. pp. 1—54. 



VII. On the Instantaneous Pressures produced on the Collision 

 of Two Explosion Waves. By R. H. Jones, B.Sc, and 

 J. Bower, B.Sc. Plate 3 pp. 1—7. 



VIII. On a General Method of determining the Form of the 

 Velocity- Potential of Fluid- Motion in Two Dimensions 

 across a Channel with Straight Sides. By R. F. 

 Gwyther, M.A. - pp. 1—6. 



IX. On the Velocity of Sound in a Tube, as affected by the 

 Elasticity of the Walls. By Horace Lamb, M.A., 

 F.R.S. pp. I— 16. 



X. The New Gold Discoveries. By Eduard Suess, of 



Vienna - - pp. i — 9. 



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