CONTENTS OF VOL. XIV. 



(FIFTH SEEIES). 



NUMBEE LXXXV.— JULY 1882. 



Page 



Dr. E. J. Mills's Eesearches on Melting-point 1 



Mr. C. V. Boys on Measurement of Curvature and Refractive 



Index. (Plate I.) 30 



Professors Ayrton and Perry's Experiments on the Eaure 



Accumulator 41 



Professors Ayrton and Perry on a Simplified Dispersion- 

 Photometer 45 



MM. Warburg and v. Babo on the Connexion between Vis- 

 cosity and Density in Fluids, especially Gaseous Fluids . - 51 

 Mr. F. D. Brown's Notes on Thermometry. (Plate II.) .... 57 

 Notices respecting New Books : — 



Geological and Natural-History Survey of Canada, Di- 

 rector's Eeport for 1879-80 70 



Dr. Geikie's Geological Sketches at Home and Abroad . . 71 

 Proceedings of the Geological Society : — 



Prof. J. Yf. Judd on the Relations of * the Eocene and 



Oligocene Strata in the Hampshire Basin 73 



Science and Metaphysic, by Wyndham E. Dunstan, Vice- 

 President of the Aristotelian Society, Demonstrator of Che- 

 mistry in the Laboratories of the Pharmaceutical Society . . 75 

 On the Depression of the Zero-point in Mercurial Thermome- 

 ters, by J.-M. Crafts 76 



On the Oscillations of the Plane of Polarization produced by 

 the Discharge of a Battery : Simultaneity of the Electrical 

 and Optical Phenomena, by D. Bichat and E. Blondlot . . 79 



NUMBEE LXXXVL— AUGUST. 



M. A. F. Sundell on Absolute Systems of Physical Units .... 81 

 Major Allan Cunningham on Moseley's Theory of Steady Flow 110 

 Mr. T. C. Mendenhall on the Influence of Time on the Change 

 in the Resistance of the Carbon Disk of Edison's Tasimeter 115 



