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INDEX to VOL. XXXVII. 



AdDS, on the relative strengths or 

 "avidities" of weak, 159; on the 

 relative affinities of certain, 557. 



Acoustics, researches in, 259. 



Aerodrornics, on the science of, 430. 



Air-core transformer, on the beha- 

 viour of an, 394. 



Andrews (Rev. W. E.) on the Pur- 

 beck beds of the Yale of Wardour, 

 416. 



Barrell (Prof. F. R.) on the separa- 

 tion of three liquids by fractional 

 distillation, 8. 



Birds, on the soaring of, 425. 



Birkeland (K.) on the nature of the 

 reflexion of electrical waves at the 

 end of a conducting wire, 241. 



Blakesley (T. H.) on a new electrical 

 theorem, 448. 



Books, new : — Love's Treatise on the 

 Mathematical Theory of Elasti- 

 city, 237 ; Blake's Annals of Brit- 

 ish Geology, 1892, 289 ; Czapski's 

 Theorie der Optischen Instru- 

 niente nach Abbe, 331 ; Molen- 

 broek's Anwendung der Quater- 

 nionen auf der Geometrie, 332; 

 Wiedemann and Ebert's Physika- 

 lisches Praktikum, 334 ; de Heen's 

 La Chaleur, 335 ; Poynting's 

 Mean Density of the Earth, 413 ; 

 Stringham's Uniplanar Algebra, 

 499 ; Williamson's Elasticity, 501 ; 

 Macfarlane's Trigonometric Func- 

 tions, 501 ; Kohlrausch's Practical 

 Physics, 502 ; Smith's Man, the 

 Primeval Savage, 579. 



Boys (C. V.) on the attachment of 

 quartz fibres, 463. 



Brogger (W. C.) on the basic erup- 

 tive rocks of Gran, 415. 



Burbury (S. H.) on the law of dis- 

 tribution of energy, 143; on the 

 second law of thermodynamics, 

 574. 



Carbon, on the atomic weight of, 499. 



Chemical change, on the phases and 

 conditions of, 165. 



Conducting-power, on the sudden 

 acquisition of, by a series of dis- 

 crete metallic particles, 94. 



Conductivity, on the rotational co- 

 efficients of thermal, 338. 



Cooper (W. J.) on the fractional 

 distillation of kerosene, 495. 



Cores, on the magnetization of hol- 

 low and solid cylindrical, 507. 



Current running in a cylindrical coil, 

 on the magnetic field of a, 204; 

 on the coefficient of self-induction 

 of a circular, of given aperture and 

 cross section, 300. 



Currents, on a potentiometer for 

 alternating, 201 ; on the graphic 

 representation of, in a primary and 

 a secondary coil, 406. 



Daniel (J.) on the polarization upon 

 a thin metal partition in a volta- 

 meter, 185, 288. 



De Heen (P.) on the thermal beha- 

 viour of liquids, 424, 584. 



Distillation, on the separation of three 

 liquids by fractional, 8. 



Drops, on the electricity of, 341. 



Du Bois (H.) on the polarization of 

 non-diffracted infra-red radiation 

 by ,wire gratings, 505 ; on the 

 magnetization of hollow and solid 

 cylindrical cores, 507 ; on a ring- 

 electromagnet for producing strong- 

 fields, 583. 



Earth, on densities in the crust of 

 the, 244, 375. 



Electrical theorem, on a new, 448. 



oscillations, on the magne- 

 tization of iron and nickel wire 

 by, 582. 



waves, on the nature of the 



reflexion of, at the end of a con- 

 ducting wire, 241. 



Electricity of drops, on the, 341. 

 Electromagnetic radiations, on the 



