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June 19, 1902. 



Sir WILLIAM HUGGINS, K.C.B., D.O.L., President, in the Chair. 



A List of the Presents received was laid on the table, and thanks 

 ordered for them. 



The following Papers were read : — 



I. "On the Correlation between the Barometric Height at Stations 

 on the Eastern Side of the Atlantic." By Miss F. E. 

 Cave-Browne- Cave and Professor Karl Pearson, F.E.S. 



II. " On Methods for the Limitation and Regulation of Chloroform 

 when administered as an Anaesthetic." By A. Vernon 

 Harcourt, F.R.S. 



III. " On some Phenomena which suggest a Short Period of Solar 



and Meteorological Changes." By Sir Norman Lockyer, 

 F.R.S., and Dr. W. J. S. Lockyer. 



IV. " Note on the Effect of Mercury Vapour on the Spectrum of 



Helium." By Professor J. Norman Collie, F.R.S. 



V . " On the Measurement of Temperature. Part I. On the Pres- 

 sure Coefficients of Hydrogen and Helium at Constant 

 Volume, and at Different Initial Pressures. Part II. On 

 the Vapour Pressures of Liquid Oxygen at Temperatures 

 below its Boiling Point on the Constant Volume Hydrogen 

 and Helium Scales. Part III. On the Vapour Pressures of 

 Liquid Hydrogen at Temperatures below its Boiling Point 

 on the Constant Volume Hydrogen and Helium Scales." 

 By Dr. M. W. Travers, G. Senter, B.Sc, and Dr. A. 

 -Jaquerod. Communicated by Professor W. Ramsay, 

 F.R.S. 



VI. "The Seed-fungus of Lolium Temulentum, L., the Darnel." 

 By E. M. Freeman. Communicated by Professor Marshall 

 Ward, F.R.S. 



VII. " The Stability of the pear-shaped Figure of Equilibrium of a 

 Rotating Mass of Liquid." By Professor G. H. Darwin, 

 F.R.S. ' 



