VI CONTENTS OF VOL. XLVII. FIFTH SERIES. 



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 Prof. Carl Barus on the Absorption of Water in Hot Glass 



(Second Paper) 461 



Lord Kelvin on the Application of Force within a Limited 

 Space, required to produce Spherical Solitary Waves, or 

 Trains of Periodic Waves, of both Species, Equivoluminal 



and Irrotational, in an Elastic Solid 480 



Dr. C. Chree on Denudation and Deposition 494 



Notices respecting New Books : — 



Prof. Silas Holman's Matter, Energy, Force, and Work. 496 

 Messrs. J. Harkness and F. Morley's Introduction to the 



Theory of Analytic Functions 497 



Proceedings of the Geological Society: — 



Mr. H. H. Arnold-Bemrose on the Geology of the Ash- 

 bourne and Buxton Branch of the London and North- 

 Western Railway — Ashbourne to Crake Low 498 



Prof. J. B. Harrison and Mr. A. J. Jukes-Browne on 



the Oceanic Deposits of Trinidad 498 



A Five-cell Quadrant Electrometer, by Prof. H. Haga .... 499 



NUMBER CCLXXXIX.— JUNE. 



Mr. Edwin S. Johonnott, Jun., on the Thickness of the Black 

 Spot in Liquid Films , 501 



Mr. Albert Griffiths on the Source of 'Energy in Diffusive 

 Convection 522 



Mr. Albert Griffiths : Study of an Apparatus for the 

 Determination of the Rate of Diffusion of Solids dissolved 

 in Liquids 530 



Mr. G. A. Shakespear on the Application of an Interference- 

 Method to the Investigation of Young's Modulus for Wires, 

 and its Relation to Changes of Temperature and Magneti- 

 zation; and a further Application of the same Method to 

 the Study of the Change in Dimensions of Iron and Steel 

 Wires by Magnetization 539 



Dr. G. Johnstone Stoney on Denudation and Deposition. — 

 Part II 557 



Mr. Gerald Stoney on the Quantity of Oxygen in the Atmo- 

 sphere, compared with that in the Earth's Crust 565 



Lord Rayleigh on the Calculation of the Frequency of Vibra- 

 tion of a System in its Gravest Mode, with an example 

 from Hydrodynamics 566 



Notices respecting New Books : — 



Dr. F. A. Tarleton's Introduction to the Mathematical 

 Theory of Attraction 572 



