PROCEEDINGS OF 

 THE ROYAL SOCIETY. 



vol. Lin. No. 322. 



CONTENTS. ^ 1 893 



PAGE 



JfarcA 2, 1893. 



List of Candidates 65- 



I. Harmonic Analysis of Hourly Observations of Air Temperature and 

 Pressure at British Observatories. Part I. Temperature. By Lieut.- 

 General R. Steachey, E.E., F.R.S . 66 



II. The Effects of Mechanical Stress on the Electrical Resistance of Metals. 

 By James H. Gray, M.A., B.Sc, and James B. Henderson, B.Sc, 

 International Exhibition Scholars, Glasgow University. . . .76 



III. A New Hypothesis concerning Vision. By John Beery Haycraet, 



M.D., D.Sc. [Title only'] 78 



List of Presents 78 



March 9, 1893. 



I. On the Evidences of a Submergence of "Western Europe and of the 

 Mediterranean Coasts at the close of the Glacial or so-called Post- 

 Glacial Period, and immediately preceding the Neolithic or Recent 

 Period. By Joseph Prestwich, D.C.L., E.R.S., F.G.S., Corr. Inst. 

 France, &c 80 



II. The Electrolysis of Steam. By J. J. Thomson, M.A., F.R.S., Cavendish 



Professor of Experimental Physics in the University of Cambridge . 90 



III. On the Geometrical Construction of the Oxygen Absorption Lines 



Great A, Great B, and a of the Solar Spectrum. By George Higgs. 

 {Title only] 110 



IV. Upon the Existence of more than one Fungus in Madura Disease 



(Mycetoma). By Rubert Boyce, M.B., M.R.C.S., Assistant Pro- 

 fessor of Pathology, University College, London, and Ntjsserwangi 

 Fakirgi Sitrveyor, M.D., M.R.C.P 110 



List of Presents . . . . 112 



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June 9, 1893. 



