CONTENTS OF VOL. V. — SIXTH SERIES. V 



NUMBER XXVII.— MARCH. 



Page 

 Lord Bayleigh on the Free Vibrations of Systems affected 



with Small Rotatory Terms 293 



Lord Rayleigh on the Vibrations of a Rectangular Sheet of 



Rotating Liquid 297 



Dr. W. W. Taylor and Mr. J. K. H. Inglis : A Suggested 



Theory of the Aluminium Anode 301 



Mr. George A. Campbell on Loaded Lines in Telephonic 



Transmission. (Plates V. <& VI.) 313 



Mr. C. A. Chant on the Variation of Potential along a Wire 



transmitting Electric "Waves. (Plate VII.) 331 



Prof. A. Schuster on the Spectrum of an Irregular Dis- 

 turbance 344 



Prof. J. J. Thomson on the Charge of Electricity carried by a 



Gaseous Ion 346 



Prof. E. L. O. Wads worth on the Effect of Absorption on 

 the Resolving Power of Prism Trains, and on Methods of 

 Mechanically Compensating this Effect. (Plate VIII.) . . 355 

 Prof. H. S. Carslaw on the Use of Contour Integration in the 



Problem of Diffraction by a Wedge of any Angle 374 



Notices respecting New Books : — 



The Meteorology of the Ben Nevis Observatories : 



Part II. 1888-1892 379 



J. Mace de Lepinay's Eranges d'Interference et leurs 



Applications Metrologiques 382 



M.-E. Carvallo's L'Electricite Dednite de l'Expe'rience 



et Ramenee au Principe des Trauvaux Virtuels 382 



L. A. Bauer's United States Magnetic Declination Tables 



and Isogonic Charts for 1902 382 



Proceedings of the Geological Society : — 



Mr, H. Preston on a new Boring at Caythorpe (Lines.) . . 384 

 Dr. J. Ball on the Semna Cataract or Rapid of the Nile . . 384 

 Mr. E. J. Stephens's Geological Notes on the North- 

 West Provinces of India 385 



Mr. D. A. MacAlister on Tin and Tourmaline 386 



Mr. W. Whitaker on some Well-sections in Suffolk 386 



Mr. G. Abbott on the Cellular Magnesian Limestone of 



Durham 387 



Prof. T. G. Bonney on the Magnetite-Mines near Cogne 



(Graian Alps) 3S7 



Mr. A. K. Coomaraswamy on the Tiree Marble 388 



