PHILOSOPHICAL TEANS ACTIONS. 



Part II, 1886. 

 Price £1 15*. 

 Sold by Harrison and Som. 



1887. 



The following separate Papers are now ready : — 

 SEEIES A. 



(Containing Papers of a Mathematical or Physical Character.) 



1. On the Luni-Solar Variations of Magnetic Declination and Horizontal Force at 



Bombay, and of Declination at Trevandrum. By Charles Chambers, F.E.S., 

 Superintendent of the Colaba Observatory, Bombay. Price 3s. 



2. On the Properties of Matter in the Gaseous and Liquid States under various 



Conditions of Temperature and Pressure. By the late- Thomas Andrews, 

 M.D., LL.D., F.E.S. Price 1*. 



3. On Evaporation and Dissociation. Part III. A Study of the Thermal Pro- 



perties of Ethyl Oxide. By William Eamsay, Ph.D., and Sydney Young, 

 D.Sc. Price 3*. 



4. On the Discrimination of Maxima and Minima Solutions in the Calculus of 



Variations. By Edward P. Culverwell, M.A., Fellow and Tutor, Trinity 

 College, Dublin. Price Is. 



5. On Ellipsoidal Current-sheets. By Horace Lamb, M.A., F.E.S., Professor 



of Pure Mathematics in Owens College, Victoria University. Price Is. 



6. On the Practical Measurement of Temperature : Experiments made at the 



Cavendish Laboratory, Cambridge. By H. L. Callendar, B.A., Scholar of 

 Trinity College, Cambridge. Price 3s. 6d. 



7 and 8. On the Distribution of Strain in the Earth's Crust resulting from Secular 

 Cooling ; with special reference to the Grrowth of Continents and the Forma- 

 tion of Mountain Chains. By Charles Davison, M.A. With a Note by 

 G-. H. Darwin, LL.D., F.E.S., Fellow of Trinity College, and Plumian 

 Professor in the University of Cambridge. Price Is. 



9. Transmission of Sunlight through the Earth's Atmosphere. By Captain W. de 

 W. Abney, E.E., F.E.S. Price Is. 



10. On Hamilton's Numbers. By J. J. Sylvester, D.C.L. ; F.E.S. , Savilian Pro- 



fessor of Geometry in the University of Oxford, and James Hammond, M.A. 

 Cantab. Price Is. 



11. On Evaporation and Dissociation. Part V. A Study of the Thermal Properties 



of Methyl Alcohol. By William Eamsay, Ph.D., and Sydney Young, D.Sc. 

 Price 2s. 



12. Some Anomalies in the Winds of Northern India and their Eelation to the 



Distribution of Barometric Pressure. By S. A. Hill, B.Sc, Meteorological 

 Eeporter to Government, North- West Provinces and Oudh. Price 2s. 



13. On Figures of Equilibrium of Eotating Masses of Fluid. By Gr. H. Darwin, 



M.A., LL.D., F.E.S., Fellow of Trinity College and Plumian Professor in the 

 University of Cambridge. Price 2s. 6d. 



14. On Thermal Eadiation in Absolute Measure. By J. T. Bottomley, M.A. 



Price Is. 6d. 



15. On the supposed "New Force" of M. J. Thore. By William Crookes, 



F.E.S., Pres.C.S. Price Is. 



