﻿IV CONTENTS OF VOL. XXXVII. FOURTH SERIES. 



NUMBER CCXLVIL— FEBRUARY. 



Page 



M. Duraas's Remarks on Affinity 81 



Messrs. B. Stewart and P. G. Tait on the Heating of a Disk 



by rapid rotation in vacuo 97 



Prof. W. A. Norton on the Fundamental Principles of Molecular 



Physics 98 



M. H. St. -Claire Deville on the Temperature of Flames, and its 



relations with the Pressure Ill 



Prof. J. A. Wanklyn on Ethylate of Sodium and Ethylate of Po- 

 tassium. — Part. 1 117 



Mr. T. Graham on the Relation of Hydrogen to Palladium . . 1 '22 

 Prof. J. LeConte on some Phenomena of Binocular Vision .... 131 

 Notices respecting New Books: — Mr. J. N. Lockyer's Elemen- 

 tary Lessons in Astronomy 141 



Proceedings of the Royal Society : — 



Lieut. J. Herschel on the Lightning Spectrum 142 



Mr. J. N. Lockyer on the Spectrum of a Solar Prominence; 



and Spectroscopic Observations of the Sun 143, 144 



Proceedings of the Geological Society : — 



Dr. J. Schmidt on the Eruption of the Kaimeni of Santorin. 145 

 Mr. J. Prestwich on the Structure of the Crag-beds of Nor- 

 folk and Suffolk 146 



Mr. J. Thomson on some Genera of Carboniferous Corals. 148 

 Mr. S. V. Wood, Jun., on the Pebble-beds of Middlesex, 



Essex, and Herts 148 



Mr. W. Topley on the Cretaceous Rocks of the Bas-Bou- 



lonnais 149 



Mr. C. H. Weston on the Mendip Anticlinal 150 



Mr. R. B. Foote on the Distribution of Stone Implements 



in Southern India 150 



Mr. G. V. Du Noyer on worked Flint Flakes from Carrick- 



fergus and Larne 152 



Mr. A. Murray on the Diminution in the Volume of the 



Sea during past Geological Epochs 152 



Messrs. A. L. Adams and G. Busk : Has the Asiatic Ele- 

 phant been found in a Fossil State 152 



Sir Philip de M. Grey Egerton on the Characters of some 



new fossil Fish from the Lias of Lyme Regis . . 152 



Capt. T. Baker on the Geology of Port Santa Cruz .... 153 

 Dr. F. Stoliczka on the Jurassic Deposits in the N.W. 



Himalaya 153 



Mr. .1. W. Salter on a true Coal-plant from Sinai 153 



Messrs. J. W. Salter and H. Hicks on some Fossils from 



the Menevian Group 153 



Mr. H. F. Holt on Earthquakes in Northern Formosa . . 154 

 Mr. A. B. Mitford on the Coal-mines of Iwanai, Island of 



YessOj Japan 154 



Mr. W. B. Dawkins on a new Species of Fossil Deer from 

 Clacton, and from the Norwich Crag 154 



