VI CONTENTS OF VOL. L. FIFTH SERIES. 



NUMBER CCCVL— NOVEMBER. 



, . pa S e 



T. Mizuno on the Action of the Coherer 445 



Mr. William Sutherland on the Molecular Constitution of 



Water . 460 



Mr. W. Craig Henderson on Experiments to Determine 

 '•'"' whether a Liquid when Electrified loses any portion of its 



Charge by Evaporation 489 



Mr. Henry Crew on the Arc Spectra of some Metals, as in- 

 fluenced by an Atmosphere of Hydrogen 497 



Prof. J. G. MacGregor on a Diagram of Freezing-point De- 

 pressions for Electrolytes. (Plate IV.) 505 



Mr. H. S. Allen on the Motion'of a Sphere in a Viscous Fluid. 



(Plates I. & II.) .519 



Notices respecting New Books : — 



W. Ostwald's Grundriss der Allgemeinen Chemie 534 



Proceedings of the Geological Society:- — 



Dr. J. W. Evans on Mechanically-formed Limestones 

 from Junagarh and other Localities 536 



NUMBER CCCVIL— DECEMBER. 



Mr. Philip E. Shaw on an Electric Micrometer. 537 



Dr. Clarence A. Skinner on the Potential Gradient in the 



so-called Faraday Dark Space of Vacuum-Tubes as Related 



to Conditions prevalent at the Cathode 563 



,Mr. R. Beattie on a Possible Source of Error in the Use 



of a Ballistic Galvanometer 575 



JJr. Charles Davison on the Sea- Waves connected with the 

 , | Japanese Earthquake of June 15, 1896. (Plate V.) .... 579 

 Mr. S. H. Burbury on the Law of Partition of Energy .... 584 

 Prof. C. Barus on the Rates of a Rocking Watch, with 



Remarks on a Gravitational Pendulum 595 



Prof. W. B. Morton on some Cases of Propagation of Electric 



Oscillations along a Number of Parallel Wires 605 



Notices respecting New Books ; — 



The Scientific Papers of John Couch Adams. Vol. II. . . 617 

 New Researches into Pouillet's Phenomenon (the Heat 

 , , Developed in Wetting Powders), by Tito Martini 618 



Index .V. ... .620 



