iv CONTENTS OF VOL. XXXIII. FIFTH SERIES. 



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 Proceedings of the G-eological Society : — 



Mr. T. F. Jamieson's Supplementary Eemarks on Glen 



Eoy 149 



Prof. E. Hull's Comparison of the Eed Bocks of the 

 South Devon Coast with those of the Midland and 



Western Counties 151 



Key. A. Irving's Supplementary Note to the Paper on 

 the 4 Eed Eocks of the Devon Coast-section,' Q. J. G-. S. 



1888 151 



On the Concordance of Orthobaric Curves for Solutions and 

 Homogeneous Liquids, by L. Natanson 152 



NUMBEB CCL— FEBEUAEY. 



Prof. S. Young on the Generalizations of Van der Waals 

 regarding " Corresponding " Temperatures, Pressures, and 

 Volumes. (Plates I.-III.) 153 



Prof. W. E. Ayrton and Mr. T. Mather on the Construction 

 of Non-Inductive Eesistances. (Plate IY.) 186 



Dr. C. Y. Burton on a Theory concerning the Constitution 

 of Matter 191 



Prof. A. W. Eiicker on the Density and Composition of Dilute 

 Sulphuric Acid.— No. II 204 



Lord Eayleigh on the Theory of Surface Eorces. — II. Com- 

 pressible Eluids 209 



Mr. H. L. Callendar on some Experiments with a Platinum 

 Pyrometer on the Melting-points of Gold and Silver. 

 (Plate Y.) 220 



Notices respecting New Books : — 



Mr. J. Parker's Elementary Thermodynamics 228 



Clerk Maxwell's Theory of Heat, Tenth Edition edited 

 by Lord Eayleigh 231 



On a Consequence of the Poisson-Mossotti Theory, by Gottlieb 

 Adler 233 



On the Electromotive Force of Gas-batteries, by Gertscho 

 Markovsky 23o 



Velocity of* Sound in Membranous Bodies, by F. Melde .... 236 



The^Solitary Wave : Correction of a Sign 236 



