PROCEEDINGS OF 

 THE ROYAL SOCIETY. 



vol. lix. No. 356. 



CONTENTS. 



February 6, 1896. 



PAGE 



I. Impact with a Liquid Surface, studied by meaus of Instantaneous Photo- 

 graphy. By A. M. Woethington, M.A., F.R.S., and E. S. Cole, M.A. 250 



II. A new Method of determining Freezing Points. By Meyee Wildee- 



mann, Ph.D 251 



List of Presents 254 



February 13, 1896. 



I. On the Behaviour of Argon and Helium when submitted to the Electric 

 Discharge. By J. N. Collie, Ph.D., F.R.S.E., and William Ramsay, 

 Ph.D., F.R.S 257 



II. On the Generation of Longitudinal Wares in Ether. By Loed 



Kelvin, F.R.S. ...... . . . . .270 



III. On the Discharge of Electricity produced by the Rontgen Rays, and the 



Effects prod-iced by these Rays on Dielectrics through which they 

 pass. By J. J. Thomson, M.A., F.R.S. , Professor of Experimental 

 Physics, Cambridge 274 



IV. On the Absorption of the extreme Violet and ultra- Violet Rays of the 



Solar Spectrum by Haemoglobin, its Compounds, and certain of its 

 Derivatives. By Aethue GrAMGEE, M.D., F.R.S., Emeritus Professor 

 of Physiology in the Owens College, Victoria University . . . 276 



List of Presents 279 



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April 30, 1896. 



