﻿CONTENTS OF VOL. XLI. FOURTH SERIES. V 



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 Prof. W. G. Adams on determining the degree of Polarization 

 in the case of a ray of common Light falling obliquely on 

 and being reflected or refracted by a bundle of parallel Plates. 205 

 M. W. von Bezold's Investigations on the Electrophorus .... 214 

 Prof. W. A. Norton on the Corona seen in Total Eclipses of the 



Sun 225 



Notices respecting New Books : — 



Prof. R. Willis's Principles of Mechanism, designed for the 

 use of Students in the Universities, and for Engineering 



Students generally 236 



Mr. Wm, G. Valentin's Laboratory Text-book of Practical 

 Chemistry ; or, Introduction to Qualitative Analysis. A 

 Guide to the Course of Practical Instruction given in the 



Laboratories of the Royal College of Chemistry 238 



Proceedings of the Royal Society : — 



The Hon. J. W. Strutton the Theory of Resonance 239 



On some Analogous Principles of Photometry, and the Law of 



Attraction, by W. von Bezold 241 



A Solar Fog-bow, by R. C. Carrington 244 



On the Refractive Phenomena of an Alcoholic Solution of 

 Fuchsin, by M. C. Christiansen 244 



NUMBER CCLXXIII.— APRIL. 



M. G. Quincke on the Capillary Phenomena of the common 



Surface of two Liquids 245 



Prof. J. LeConte on an Optical Illusion 266 



Prof. How's Contributions to the Mineralogy of Nova Scotia . . 270 

 The Hon. J. W. Strutt on the Light from the Sky, its Polari- 

 zation and Colour 274 



Prof. Challis on Attraction caused by Vibrations of the Air . . 279 

 Prof. Cayley on the Plane Representation of a Solid Figure . . 286 

 Mr. G. J. Stoney on the Cause of the Interrupted Spectra of 



Gases 291 



Mr. C. W. Vincent on the Relations of Magnetism and Static 



Electricity 297 



Notices respecting New Books : — 



Dr. W. A. Miller's Introduction to the Study of Inorganic 



Chemistry 302 



Prof. F. H. Storer's Cyclopaedia of Quantitative Chemical 



Analysis 302 



Dr. T. Blyth's Handbook of the Metals 302 



Mr. \V. N. Griffin's Text-books of Science. The Elements 



of Algebra and Trigonometry - 304 



Mr. H. McColl's Algebraical Exercises and Problems; with 



Elliptical Solutions 305 



Proceedings of the Royal Society : — 



Mr. E. Hull on the Extension of the Coal-fields beneath 

 the Newer Formations of England 306 



