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INDEX to VOL. XLVII. 





xTjTHEK, on the relative motion of 

 the earth and. 252. 



Air, on the cooling of, by radiation 

 and conduction, 308 ; on the con- 

 duction of heat in a spherical mass 

 of, confined by walls at a constant 



" temperature, 314. 



Ampere, on an experiment of, 331. 



Arnold-Bemrose (H. H.) on the geo- 

 logy of the Ashburne and Buxton 

 branch of the L. & N.W. Ry., 498. 



Atmosphere, on the transmission of 

 light through an, containing small 

 particles in suspension, 375. 



Barton (Dr. E. H.) on the equiva- 

 lent resistance and inductance of 

 a wire to an oscillatory discharge, 

 433. 



Barus (Dr. C.) on the absorption of 

 water in hot glass, 104, 4(31. 



Bernoulli's theorem in probabilities, 

 on, 246. 



Black spot in liquid films, on the 

 thickness of the, 501. 



Books, new : — Routh's Treatise on 

 Dynamics of a Particle, 163 ; 

 Fisher and Schwatt's Textbook of 

 Algebra, 251; Murray's Ele- 

 mentary Course in the Integral 

 Calculus, 325 ; Harper's Scientific 

 Memoirs, I. The Free Expansion 

 of Gases, II. Prismatic and Dif- 

 fraction Spectra, 4J7 ; Holman's 

 Matter, Energy, Force, and Work, 

 496 ; Harkness and Morley's Intro- 

 duction to the Theory of Analytic 

 Functions, 497 ; Tarleton's Intro- 

 duction to the Mathematical Theory 

 of Attraction, 572 ; Poincare's 

 Theorie du Potentiel Newtonien, 

 573 ; Caj oil's History of Physics, 

 575. 



Brush discharge, experiments with 

 the, 40, 331. 



Callendar (Prof. H. L.) on platinum 

 thermometry, 191. 



Campbell (A.) on the magnetic 

 fluxes in meters and other electri- 

 cal instruments, 1. 



Cathode rays, on the, 269, 415. 



Chabot (J. J. T.) on the combination 

 of an experiment of Ampere with 

 one of Faraday, 331. 



Chance, on the hypergeometrical 

 series and the theory of, 236. 



Chapman (D. L.) on the rate of ex- 

 plosion in gases, 90. 



Chree (Dr. C.) on longitudinal vibra- 

 tions in solid and hollow cylinders, 

 333 ; on denudation and deposition, 

 494. 



Colour-photography, application of 

 the diffraction-grating to, 368. 



Condensers, on the measurement of 

 the energy dissipated in, 19, 222. 



Conduction, on the cooling of air by, 

 308 ; of heat in a spherical mass of 

 air confined by walls at a constant 

 temperature, on the, 314. 



Convection, on the source of energy 

 in diffusive, 522. 



Cook (Dr. E. II.) on experiments 

 with the brush discharge, 40. 



Cylinders, on longitudinal vibrations 

 in solid and hollow, 333. 



D T and D 2 , application of Sellmeier's 

 dynamical theory to the dark lines, 

 302. 



Denudation and deposition, on, 372, 

 494,557. 



Diffraction-fringes, application of, 

 to micrometric observations, 441. 



Diffraction-grating, application of 

 the, to colour-photography, 368. 



Diffusion, on the source of energy in, 

 522 ; on an apparatus for the de- 

 termination of the rate of, 530, 



Discharge, on the equivalent resist- 

 ance and inductance of a wire to 

 an oscillatory, 433. 



Earth, on the age of the, as an abode 

 fitted for life, 60. 



