U CONTENTS OF VOL. VI. — FIFTH SERIES. 



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 Notices respecting New Books : — 



Prof.W. K. Clifford's Elements of Dynamic; an Introduc- 

 tion to the Study of Motion and Rest in Solid and 



Fluid Bodies 306 



Mr. R. A. Proctor on the Moon, her Motions, Aspect, 



Scenery, and Physical Condition 309 



Proceedings of the Geological Society : — 



Mr. C. Moore on the Palaeontology and some of the Phy- 

 sical Conditions of the Meux's-Well Deposits 310 



Dr. A. Wiclnnann's Microscopical Study of some Huro- 



nian Clay-slates 311 



Mr. T. M. Reade on a Section through Glazebrook 



Moss, Lancashire 312 



Mr. C. B. Brown on the Tertiary Deposits on the Solimoes 



and Javary Rivers in Brazil 312 



Mr. J. C. Ward on the Physical History of the English 

 Lake-district, with Notes on the possible Subdivision 



of the Skiddaw Slates 313 



Mr. F. Ruddy on the Upper Part of the Bala Beds and 



Base of Silurian in North Wales 313 



A Spectrometric Study of some Sources of Light, by A. Crova. 314 

 On the Excitation of Electricity by Pressure and Friction, by 



H. Fritsch 316 



On the Solar Eclipse of Julv 29th, 1878, by Professor Henry 



Draper, M.D ' * 318 



On Watson's Intra-Mercurial Planet, by Pliny Earle Chase . . 320 



NUMBER XXXV1IL— NOVEMBER. 



Mr. T. Gray on the Experimental Determination of Mag- 

 netic Moments in Absolute Measure. (Plate V.) 321 



Mr. J.AV. L. Glaisher on Multiplication by a Table of Single 

 Entry 331 



Prof. S. P. Thompson on Magnetic Figures illustrating Elec- 

 trodynamic Relations. (Plates VI. & VII.) 348 



Prof. J. Purser on the Applicability of Lagrange's Equations 

 in certain Cases of Fluid-Motion 354 



Prof. E. Edlund's Researches on Unipolar Induction, Atmo- 

 spheric Electricity, and the Aurora Borealis 360 



Mr. J. Hood on the Laws of Chemical Change. — Part 1 371 



Prof. S. P. Thompson on the Phenomena of Binaural Audi- 

 tion.— Part II 383 



Notices respecting New Books : — 



Messrs. P. G. Tait and the late W. J. Steele's Treatise 

 on Dynamics of a Particle, with numerous Examples. . 391 



A Consideration regarding the Proper Motion of the Sun in 

 Space, by S. Tolver Preston 393 



