CONTENTS OF VOL. XL. 



(FIFTH SERIES). 



NUMBER CCXLIL— JULY 1895. 



Page 

 Mr. William Sutherland on the Fundamental Atomic Laws of 



Thermochemistry 1 



Mr. W. G. Rhodes on a Theory of the Synchronous Motor. . 56 

 Mr. C. Chree's Contribution to the Theory of the Robinson 



Cup-Anemometer 63 



Prof. E. F. Herroun on the Use of an Iodine Voltameter for 



the Measurement of Small Currents 91 



Profs. James Dewar and J. A. Fleming on the Thermo-elec- 

 tric Powers of Metals and Alloys between the Temperatures 

 of the Boiling-Point of Water and the Boiling-Point of 



Liquid Air. (Plates III. & IV.) 95 



Dr. Meyer Wildermann's Experimental Proof of Van't Hoff's 

 Constant, of Arrhenius's Generalization, and of Ostwald's 



Law of Dilution in very Dilute Solutions 119 



Notices respecting New Books : — 



Mr. J. F. Blake's Annals of British Geology, 1893 .... 144 

 Prof. N. Story Maskelyne's The Morphology of Crystals. 145 

 Proceedings of the Geological Society : — 



Mr. E. A. Walford on the Lias Ironstone around Ban- 



j bury 147 



Mr. W. F. Wilkinson on the Geology and Mineral Re- 

 sources of Anatolia (Asia Minor) 148 



Mr. A. Harker on Carrock Fell — A Study in the Varia- 

 tion of Igneous Rock-masses 148 



Mr. F. R. Cowper Reed on the Geology oL' the Country 



'. around Fishguard (Pembrokeshire) 148 



Mr. J. L. Lobley on the Mean Radial Variation of the 



Globe 149 



Prof. E. Hull on the Physical Conditions of the Medi- 

 terranean Basin which have resulted in a Community 

 of some Species of Freshwater Fishes in the Nile and 

 the Jordan Waters 149 



