IV CONTENTS OF VOL. XXXII. FIFTH SERIES. 



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 Notices respecting New Books : — 



Mr. Denning's Telescopic "Work for Starlight Evenings . 127 



Dr. Kouth's Treatise on Analytical Statics 129 



Mr. Dixon's Foundations of Geometry 130 



M. Hermite's Explication de 1' epoch Quaternaire sans 



Hypotheses , 131 



Proceedings of the Geological Society : — 



Messrs. A. V. Jennings and G. J. "Williams on Manod 



and the Moelwyns 133 



Mr. G. W. Lamplugh on the Drifts of Plamborough 



Head 133 



Mr. A. Strahan on a Phosphatic Chalk with JBelemnitella 



quadrata at Taplow 134 



Prof. H. A. Nicholson and Mr. J. E. Marr on the Cross Eell 



Inlier 135 



Mr. B. Hobson on the Igneous Bocks of the South of 



the Isle of Man 135 



Prof. T. G-. Bonney and Major-General C. A. McMahon 



on the Besults of an Examination of the Crystalline 



Bocks of the Lizard District 136 



Mr. E. Butley on a Spherulitic and Perlitic Obsidian 



from Pilas, Jalisco, Mexico 137 



Mr. E. "Wilson on a Bhsetic Section at Pylle Hill or 



Totter Down, Bristol 138 



Mr. E. Wethered on a Microscopic Study of the Inferior 



Oolite of the Cotteswold Hills, including the Besidues 



insoluble in Hydrochloric Acid 138 



Dr. H. Hicks on some recently exposed Sections in the 



Glacial Deposits at Hendon 139 



Bev. A. Irving on some Becent Excavations in the 



"Wellington College district 140 



Mr. A. Bell on some Post-Tertiary Marine Deposits 



on the South Coast of England 140 



On the Analysis of the Light diffused by the Sky, by A. Crova. 141 



NUMBEB CXCV.— AUGUST. 



Prof. "W. Ostwald on Chemical Action at a Distance 145 



Dr. G. Gore on the Belation of Volta Electromotive Force to 



Latent Heat, Specific Gravity, &c. of Electrolytes ...... 157 



Prof. J. Perry on the Study of Transformers 168 



Prof. J. Perry on Mr. Blakesley's Method of Measuring Power 



in Transformers 185 



Mr. J. Parker on the Theory of Magnetism and the Absurdity 



of Diamagnetic Polarity 192 



