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VOLUME I. (SERIES IL) 
Part 1.—On Great Telescopes of the Future. By Howard Grubb, r.r.As. (November, 1877), 
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2.—On the Penetration of Heat across Layers of Gas. By G J. Stoney, M.A., F.R.S. 
(November, 1877), : : : . é 
3.—On the Satellites of Mars. By Wentworth Erck, u1.p. (May, 1878), : 
4.—On the Mechanical Theory of Crookes’s, or Polarization Stress in Gases. By G. J. 
Stoney, M.A., F.R.S. (October, 1878), : i : : 
5.—On the Mechanical Theory of Crookes’s Force. By George Francis Fitzgerald, m.a., 
F.T.C.D. (October, 1878), : 
6.—Notes on the Physical Appearance of the Blemet Mars, as seen with the Three- foot 
Reflector at Parsonstown, during the Opposition of 1877. By John L. E. Dreyer, 
M.A. Plates 1. and IT. (November, 1878.) . 
7.—On the Nature and Origin of the Beds of Chert in the Upper Chtbandltrore Teens 
of Ireland. By Professor Edward Hull, m.a., v.r.s., Director of the Geological 
Survey of Ireland. And On the Chemical Composition of Chert and the Chemistry 
of the Process by which it is formed. By Edward T, Hardman, r.c.s. Plate III. 
(November, 1878), : 3 : : : 
8.—On the Superficial Tension of Fluids and its Possible Relation to Mnsca Contractions. 
By G. F. Fitzgerald, m.a., r.t.c.D. (December, 1878), 5 
9.—Places of One Thousand Stars observed at the Armagh Observatory. By Rev. “Tomas 
Romney Robinson, D.D., LL.D., D.C.L., F.R.S., &e, (February, 1879), ; 
10.—On the Possibility of Onkethnattia Wwe Disturbances in the Ether by Means of Electric 
Forces. By Geo. Fras. Fitzgerald, M.a., F.1.c.D. Part I. (February, 1880), 
11.—On the Relations of the Carboniferous, Dae and Upper Silurian Rocks of the 
South of Ireland to those of North Devon. By Edward Hull, M.A., LL.D., F.R.S., 
Director of the Geological Survey of Ireland, and Professor of Geology, Royal Galles 
of Science, Dublin. Plates IV. and V., and Woodcuts. (May, 1880), 2 3 
12.—Physical Observations of Mars, 1879- 80. By C. E. Burton, B.a., M.RLA., F.B.AS. 
Plates VI., VIL, and VIII. (May, 1880), 
13.—On the Possibility of originating Wave Disturbances in the Ether ae means of eee 
Forces. Part 2. By Geo. Francis Fitzgerald, M.a., F.7.¢.D. (November, 1880), 
14.—Explorations in the Bone Cave of Ballynamintra, near Cappagh, County Waterford. 
By A. Leith Adams, 4.B., LL.D., F.RS., F.G8., G. H. Kinahan, w.R.1.4., and R. J. 
Ussher. Plates IX. to XIV. (April, 1881), : : : : : 
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