Proceedings of the Royal Society of London, Volume 43Taylor & Francis, 1888 - Electronic journals Obituary notices of deceased fellows were included in v. 7-64; v. 75 is made up of "obituaries of deceased fellows, chiefly for the period 1898-1904, with a general index to previous obituary notices"; the notices have been continued in subsequent volumes as follows: v. 78a, 79b, 80a-b- 86a-b, 87a 88a-b. |
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Page 535 - College, Cambridge. He was a very active member, as his father had been, of the Society for the Relief of Widows and Orphans of Medical Men, and
Page 113 - Dr. Bae, Mr. Stainton, and Mr. Symons were by ballot elected Auditors of the Treasurer's accounts on the part of the Society. The Presents received were laid on the table, and thanks ordered for them. The following Papers were read :— I.
Page 177 - 8vo. London 1887. The Author. Egleston (T.) The Metallurgy of Silver, Gold and Mercury in the United States. Vol. I. Silver. 8vo. London 1887. The Editor of " Engineering." Henry (J.) Scientific Writings. 2 vols. Large 8vo. Washington 1886. The Smithsonian Institution. Jones
Page 150 - and in those in -which a rotation has been set up, are in all probability due to streams of meteorites, -with irregular motions out of the main streams, in which the collisions would be almost nil. It has already been suggested by Professor G. H. Darwin*—using the gaseous hypothesis—that
Page 412 - periodic function of their atomic weights." Carnelley has given strong evidence in favour of supplementing the law as follows :—" The properties of compounds of the elements are a periodic function of the atomic weights of their constituent elements,
Page 417 - The functional invariants can therefore be expressed in terms of these simultaneous concomitants. Presents, March 15, 1888. Transactions. Batavia :—Bataviaasch Genootschap van Kunsten en Wetenschappen. Tijdschrift voor Indische Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde. Deel
Page 151 - a.. The solar spectrum can be very fairly reproduced (in some parts of the spectrum almost line for line) by taking a composite photograph of the arc spectrum of several stony meteorites, chosen at random, between iron meteoric poles.
Page 527 - and, during the next seven years, he conducted the surveys of the Bristol Channel and of the ports of Liverpool and Milford. He was promoted to the rank of Commander in 1835 ; and his next service in command of the " Lucifer " was on the surveys of the coast of Lancashire and Cumberland. In
Page 106 - earlier papers we had concluded that, excepting the small amount of combined nitrogen annually coming down in rain and the minor aqueous deposits from the atmosphere, the source of the nitrogen of our crops was, substantially, the stores within the soil and subsoil, whether derived from previous accumulations, or from recent supplies by manure. More recently
Page 433 - In reckoning the solvent action of sea-water, therefore, account must be taken of the fact that a not inconsiderable proportion of the carbonate of lime held in solution is redeposited in the form of crystalline limestone. Of this, it seems, Mr. Murray has not taken sufficient account, and has, therefore, overstated the destructive agency of the sea. Secondly,