Proceedings and List of Papers read. 



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December 9, 1897. 



The LORD LISTER, F.R.C.S., D.C.L., President, in the Chair. 



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

 ordered for them. 



The President announced that he had nominated as Vice-Presi- 

 dents for the ensuing year — 



The Treasurer (Sir John Evans). 

 Professor Clifton. 

 Professor Story Maskelyne. 

 Dr. W. J. Russell. 



The following- Papers were read : — 



I. "On the Densities of Carbonic Oxide, Carbonic Anhydride, and 

 Nitrous Oxide." By Loed Rayleigh, F.R.S. 



II. " On the Application of Harmonic Analysis to the Dynamical 

 Theory of the Tides. Part II. On the General Integration 

 of Laplace's Dynamical Equations." By S. S. Hough, M.A., 

 Fellow of St. John's College, and Isaac Newton Student in 

 the University of Cambridge. Communicated by Professor 

 G. H. Darwin, F.R.S. 



III. A Note on some further Determinations of the Dielectric 



Constants of Organic Bodies and Electrolytes at very Low 

 Temperatures." By James Dewar, M.A., LL.D., F.R.S., 

 Fullerian Professor of Chemistry in the Royal Institution, 

 and J. A. Fleming, M.A., D.Sc, F.R.S., Professor of Elec- 

 trical Engineering in University College, London. 



IV. " On Methods of making Magnets independent of Changes of 



Temperature; and some Experiments upon Negative Tem- 

 perature Coefficients in Magnets." By J. Reginald Ash- 

 worth. Communicated by Arthur Schuster, F.R.S. 



V. " The Electric Conductivity of Nitric Acid." By V. H. Veley, 

 M.A., F.R.S., and J. J. Manley, Daubeny Curator of the 

 Magdalen College Laboratory, Oxford. 



VI. " On the Calculation of the Coefficient of Mutual Induction of 

 a Circle and a Coaxial Helix, and of the Electromagnetic 

 Force between a Helical Current and a uniform Coaxial 

 Circular Cylindrical Current Sheet." By J. Viriamu Jones, 

 F.R.S. 



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