PROCEEDINGS OP 



THE EOTAL SOCIETY. 



vol. xvii. No. 107. 



CONTENTS. 



December 10, 1868. 



PAGE 



I. On the Phenomena of Light, Heat, and Sound accompanying the fall of 



Meteorites. By W. Bitter v. Haidinger, For. Mem. R.S. &c. . . 155 



II. On the Solar and Lunar Variations of Magnetic Declination at Bombay. — 

 Part I. By Charles Chambers, Esq., Superintendent of the Colaba 

 Observatory. Communicated by B. Stewart, LL.D 161 



III. On the Diurnal and Annual Inequalities of Terrestrial Magnetism, as de- 

 duced from Observations made at the Royal Observatory, Greenwich, 

 from 1858 to 1863 ; being a continuation of a communication on the 

 Diurnal Inequalities from 1841 to 1857, printed in the Philosophical 

 Transactions, 1863. With a Note on the Luno-diurnal and other Lunar 

 Inequalities, as deduced from observations extending from 1848 to 1863. 

 By George Biddell Airt, Astronomer Royal 163 



December 17, 1868. 



I. On the Measurement of the Luminous Intensity of Light. By William 



Crookes, F.R.S. &c 166 



II. Preliminary Report, by Dr. William B. Carpenter, V.P.R.S., of Dredging 

 Operations in the Seas to the North of the British Islands, carried on in 

 Her Majesty's Steam-vessel ' Lightning,' by Dr. Carpenter and Dr. 

 Wyville Thomson, Professor of Natural History in Queen's College, 

 Belfast 168 



Obituary Notice : 



Charles Giles Bridle Daubeny lxxiv 



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