Report of the ... Meeting of the British Association for the Advancement of Science, Volume 69

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THURSDAY SEPTEMBER
14
Corresponding Societies Committee Report of the Committee consisting
27
Radiation from a Source of Light in a Magnetic Field Preliminary Report
63
Report on the Progress of the Solution of the Problem of Three Bodies
121
On Solar Radiation Report of the Committee consisting of Dr G JOHN
159
Tables of Certain Mathematical Functions Report of the Committee con
160
Experiments for Improving the Construction of Practical Standards for use
240
Heat of Combination of Metals in the Formation of Alloys Report of
246
Water and Sewage Examination Results Report of the Committee consist
255
Absorption Spectra and Chemical Constitution of Organic Substances In
316
The Teaching of Science in Elementary Schools Report of the Committee
359
Life Zones in the British Carboniferous Rocks Report of the Committee
371
examine the Conditions under which remains of the Irish Elk are found
376
Erratic Blocks of the British Isles Report of the Committee consisting
398
Registration of Type Specimens of British Fossils Report of the Committee
405
Canadian Pleistocene Flora and Fauna Report of the Committee consisting
411
Address by Sir W H WHITE K C B Sc D LL D F R S President
415
Pedigree Stock Records Report of the Committee consisting of FRANCIS
424
A Circulatory Apparatus for keeping Aquatic Organisms under definite Physi
431
Investigations made at the Marine Biological Laboratory Plymouth Report
437
Zoological and Botanical Publication Report of the Committee consisting
444
Bird Migration in Great Britain and Ireland Second Interim Report
447
Exploration of Sokotra Report of the Committee consisting of J SCOTT
460
Standards Department of the Board of Trade
468
Dover Harbour Works By J C COODE M Inst C E and W Matthews
479
Mental and Physical Deviations from the Normal among Children in Public
489
Silchester Excavation Report of the Committee consisting of Mr A
495
MACLEAN Dr MERÉE BEAUCHEMIN Mr C N BELL Hon G Ross
497
The Anthropology and Natural History of Torres Straits Report of
585
Photographs of Anthropological Interest Report of the Committee con
592
Histology of the Suprarenal Capsules Report of the Committee consisting
598
The Physiological Effects of Peptone and its Precursors when introduced into
605
The Microchemistry of Cells Interim Report of the Committee consisting
609
SECTION A MATHEMATICAL AND PHYSICAL SCIENCE
615
On the Expansion of Porcelain with Rise of Temperature By T
632
On the Controversy concerning the Seat of Voltas Contact Force
638
New Derivatives from Camphoroxime By M O FORSTER Ph D D Sc
713
On the Relation between the Dover and FrancoBelgian Coal Basins By ROBERT ETHERIDGE F R S
730
On the SouthEastern Coalfield By Professor W BOYD DAWKINS M A F R S
734
Note on a Boring through the Chalk and Gault near Dieppe By A J JUKESBROWNE B A F G S
738
Report on the Drift Sections at Moel Tryfaen
739
Note on Barium Sulphate in the Bunter Sandstone of North Staffordshire By C B WEDD B A F G S
740
Their Influence on the Situation and Growth of Concretions By G ABBOTT M R C S
741
On Photographs of Sandstone Pipes in the Carboniferous Limestone at Dwlbau Point East Anglesey By EDWARD GREENLY
742
On the Glacial Drainage of Yorkshire By PERCY F KENDALL F G S
743
On the Origin of Lateral Moraines and Rock Trains By J LOMAS A R C S F G S
744
Report on the Tyn Newydd Caves
746
Note on the Surface of the Mount Sorrel Granite By W W WATTS M A F G S
747
Preliminary Report on Observations of Coast Erosion by the Coastguard
748
The Eruption of Vesuvius of 1898 By TEMPEST ANDERSON M D B Sc
749
Investigation of the Underground Waters of Craven The Sources
750
Report on the Registration of Type Specimens of British Fossils
756
FRIDAY SEPTEMBER 15
775
The Pelvic Symphysial Bone of the Indian Elephant By Professor
781
First Report on the Plankton and Physical Conditions of the English
782
its PhysicoBiological aspects as bearing upon
788
On the Voyage of the Southern Cross from Hobart to Cape Adare
803
On the Mean Temperature of the Surface Waters of the Sea round
809
The Relations of Christmas Island to the Neighbouring Lands By C
815
Address by HENRY HIGGS LL B F S S President of the Section
816
Municipal Trading and Profits By ROBERT Donald
826
TUESDAY SEPTEMBER 19
832
The Dover Harbour Works By J C COODE M Inst C E and
854
Experiments on the Thrust and Power of AirPropellers By WILLIAM
860
Address by C H READ President of the Section
861
of classifying Finger Prints and how all the great Departments
869
Report on the Mental and Physical Condition of Children in Elementary
875
Notes on a Collection of 1000 Egyptian Crania By Professor A MAC
876
THURSDAY SEPTEMBER 14
892
MONDAY SEPTEMBER 18
898
Address by Sir GEORGE KING K C I E LL D M B F R S President
904
The SandDunes between Deal and Sandwich with Remarks on
921

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Pagina xxix - Pounds, and in each following year the sum of One Pound. They shall receive gratuitously the Reports of the Association for the year of their admission and for the years in which they continue to pay without intermission their Annual Subscription. By omitting to pay this subscription in any particular year, Members of this class (Annual Subscribers) lose for that and XXU BULKS OF THE ASSOCIATION.
Pagina xxix - To give a stronger impulse and a more systematic direction to scientific inquiry, — to promote the intercourse of those who cultivate Science in different parts of the British Empire, with one another and with foreign philosophers, — to obtain a more general attention to the objects of Science, and a removal of any disadvantages of a public kind which impede its progress.
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Pagina xxxii - MinnteBook, and a copy forwarded without delay to the Printer, who is charged with publishing the same before 8 AM on the next day in the Journal of the Sectional Proceedings. Business of the Sectional Committees. Committee Meetings are to be held on the Wednesday...
Pagina xxxviii - Recommendations bearing npon matters in which the co-operation of Corresponding Societies is desired ; and the Secretaries of the Conference of Delegates shall invite the authors of these recommendations to attend the meetings of the Conference and give verbal explanations of their objects and of the precise way in which they would desire to have them carried into effect.
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Pagina 16 - I was urging just now, the greatness of many great names in science is often, in large part, the greatness of occasion, not of absolute power. The qualities which guide one man to a small truth silently taking its place among its fellows, as these go to make up progress, are at bottom the same as those by which another man is led to something of which the whole world rings. The features of the fruitful scientific mind are, in the main, three. In the first place, above all other things, his nature...

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