CONTENTS OF VOL. I. FIFTH SERIES. V 



Page 

 Mr. W. Odling on the Formulation of the Paraffins and their 



Derivatives 205 



Prof. R. Clausius on the Bearing of the Fundamental Law of 

 Electrodynamics toward the Principle of the Conservation 

 of Energy, and on a further Simplification of the former . . 218 

 Mr. H. M. Taylor on the Relative Yalues of the Pieces in 



Chess . . . , 221 



Mr. C. J. Woodward on a new Form of Wave-apparatus suit- 

 able for the Lecture-room 229 



Notices respecting New Books : — 



The Chev. F. F. de Bruno's Theorie des Formes Binaires. 231 

 Proceedings of the Royal Society : — 



Messrs. J. N. Lockyer and W. C. Roberts on the Absorp- 

 tion-Spectra of Metals volatilized by the Oxy hydrogen 



Flame 234 



Messrs. W. De La Rue, H. W. Miiller, and W. Spottis- 

 woode on Stratification in Electrical Discharges in 



vacuo 239 



Mr. W. N. Hartley on the Action of Heat on the Absorp- 

 tion-Spectra and Chemical Constitution of Saline Solu- 

 tions 244 



Mr. W. Crookes on Attraction and Repulsion resulting 



from Radiation 245 



On the Attraction and Repulsion exerted by the Luminous and 

 the Calorific Rays, by Dr. F. Neesen ; and on Crookes's Ra- 

 diometer, by M. Poggendorff: 250 



On the Action of Heat in Magnetization, by L. Fave 253 



On the Phenomena of Induction, by M. Mouton . . . . 255 



NUMBER IV.— APRIL. 



Lord Rayleigh on Waves 257 



Profs. W. King and T. H. Rowney on the Serpentinite of the 

 Lizard — its Original Rock-condition, Methylotic Phenomena, 

 and Structural Simulations of Organisms. (Plate II.) .... 280 



Dr. C. Fromme on the Magnetism of Steel Bars 293 



Mr. G-. J. Stoney on Crookes's Radiometer. — Part II 305 



Mr. W. Baily on a new Arrangement for the Micrometer of 

 the Automatic Spectroscope 314 



Prof. P. E. Chase on the Equilibrating Forces of the Solar 

 System. — I. Mass and Position 315 



Notices respecting New Books : — 



Mr. W. D. Cooley's Physical Geography, or the Terra- 

 queous Globe and its Phenomena 319 



Proceedings of the Royal Society : — 



Prof. W. G. Adams on the Action of Light on Tellurium 

 and Selenium 322 



