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YI. On the Practical Measurement of Temperature: Experiments made at the 
Cavendish Laboratory, Cambridge. By H. L. Caelendab, B.A., Scholar of 
Trinity College. Cambridge. Communicated by J. J. Thomson, F.R.S., 
Cavendish Professor of Experimental Physics in the University of Cam¬ 
bridge .page 161 
VII. On the Distribution of Strain in the Earth’s Crust resulting from Secular 
Cooling; with special reference to the Growth of Continents and the Formation 
of Mountain Chains. By Chables Davison, M.A., Mathematical Master at 
King Edward’s High School, Birmingham. Communicated by Professor T. G. 
Bonney, D.Sc., F.R.S. . 231 
VIII. Note on Mr. Davison’s Paper on the Straining of the Earth’s Crust in Cooling. 
By G. IT. Dabwin, LL.D., F.R.S., Fellow of Trinity College, and Plumian 
Professor in the University of Cambridge .242 
IX. 
Transmission of Sunlight through the Earth’s Atmosphere. By Capt. W. de W. 
Abney, R.E., F.R.S. . 251 
X. On Hamilton’s Numbers. By J. J. Sylvesteb, D.C.L., F.R.S., Savilian Pro¬ 
fessor of Geometry in the University of Oxford, and James Hammond, M.A. 
Cant .285 
XI. On Evaporation and Dissociation .—Part V. A Study of the Thermal Properties 
of Methyl-Alcohol. By Professor William Hams ay, Ph.D., and Sydney 
Young, D.Sc. Communicated by Professor G. G. Stokes, P.R.S. . . 313 
XI [. Some Anomalies in the Winds of Northern India, and their Relation to the 
Distribution of Barometric Pressure. By S. A. Hill, B.Sc., Meteorological 
Reporter to Government, North- Western Provinces and Oudh. Communicated 
by IT. F. Blanfobd, F.R.S., Meteorological Reporter to the Government of 
India .335 
XIII. On Figures of Equilibrium of Rotating Masses of Fluid. By G. H. Dabwin, 
M.A., LL.D., F.R.S., Fellow of Trinity College, ahcl Plumian Professor in 
the University of Cambridge ...379 
