Report of the Annual Meeting, Volumen58

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Arrangement of the General Meetings
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The Theory of Solution By T STERRY HUNT LL D F R S
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A simple hypothesis for Electromagnetic Induction of incomplete
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Fourth Report of the Committee consisting of Professors A JOHNSON Secre
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Fourth Report of the Committee consisting of Professor BALFOUR STEWART
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Fourth Report of the Committee consisting of Professor G FORBES Secretary
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Report of the Committee consisting of Professor CRUM BROWN Secretary
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Report of the Committee consisting of Professor G CAREY FOSTER
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Second Report of the Committee consisting of Professors TILDEN and
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Report of the Committee consisting of Dr RUSSELL Captain ABNEY Professor
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tigating the Nature of Solution
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Third Report of the Committee consisting of Dr GARSON Mr PENGELLY
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Report of the Committee consisting of Professor VALENTINE BALL Mr H
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Second Report of the Committee consisting of Mr R ETHERIDGE Dr
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Report of the Committee consisting of Professors MCINTOSH Secretary
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Brethren of the Trinity House and the Commissioners of Northern
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Report of the Committee consisting of Dr J H GLADSTONE Secretary
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Sixth Report of the Committee consisting of Mr R ETHERIDGE Dr
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Second Report of the Committee consisting of Mr S BOURNE Professor
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Fourth Report of the Committee consisting of Dr E B TYLOR Dr G M
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Report of the Corresponding Societies Committee consisting of Mr FRANCIS
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Second Report of the Committee consisting of Sir JOHN LUBBOCK Dr JOHN
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Third Report of the Committee consisting of Sir JOSEPH D HOOKER
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Report of the Committee consisting of Mr JOHN MURRAY Secretary
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Report of the Committee consisting of Professor LANKESTER Professor
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Report of the Committee consisting of Messrs W CARRUTHERS W F
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Report of the Committee consisting of Professor T G BONNEY Mr J J
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Report of the Committee consisting of Mr THISELTONDYER Secretary
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Eighth Report of the Committee consisting of Mr R ETHERIDGE Mr THOMAS
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Report of the Committee consisting of Mr THISELTONDYER Secretary
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Second Report on our Experimental Knowledge of the Properties of Matter
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Report of the Committee consisting of Sir F J BRAMWELL Mr E
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Indexnumbers as illustrating the Progressive Exports of British Produce
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Sur lapplication de lanalyse spectrale à la mécanique moléculaire et sur
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Address by Professor G F FITZGERALD M A F R S President of
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Waves in a Viscous Liquid By A B BASSET M A
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GEOLOGY
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Note on the Portland Sands of Swindon and elsewhere By HORACE
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On the Lower Carboniferous Rocks of Gloucestershire By E WETHERED
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Report on the Rate of Erosion of the Seacoasts of England and Wales
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Note on the Occurrence of Leucite at Etna By H J JOHNSTONLavis
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Fossil Arctic Plants from the Lacustrine Deposit at Hoxne in Suffolk
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On some Devonian Cephalopods and Gasteropods By the Rev G
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A List of Works referring to British Mineral and Thermal Waters
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Address by W T THISELTONDYER C M G M A B Sc F R S F L S
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A Lily Disease By Professor H MARSHALL WARD F R S
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On the Natural History of Christmas Island By J J LISTER M A
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On Pachytheca a Silurian Alga of doubtful Affinities By C A BARBER
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On the Fauna of the Firth of Clyde By W E HOYLE M A
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Second Report of the Committee on the Physiology of the Lymphatic
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Address by Colonel Sir C W WILSON R E K C B K C M G D C L
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Sea Temperatures on the Continental Shelf By HUGH ROBERT MILL
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MONDAY SEPTEMBER 10
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Mission to ElWedj By Captain CONYERS SURTEES
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On Mining Royalties and their effect on the Iron and Coal Industries
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The Transition to Social Democracy By G BERNARD SHAW
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The Effects on Indian Exports of the Fall in the Gold Price of Silver
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Agricultural Education By Professor JAMES LONG
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Address by W H PREECE F R S M Inst C E President of the Section
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A few Arguments in favour of Light or Road Railways By Tнos
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SATURDAY SEPTEMBER 8
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Electric Lighting in America By Professor GEORGE FORBES F R S
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An improved Seismograph By E A CowPER M Inst C E
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A new form of Aircompressor for Variable Pressures By H DAVEY
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The Physique of the Swiss as influenced by Race and by Media By
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Social Regulations in Melanesia By the Rev R H CODRINGTON D D
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On the Funeral Rites and Ceremonies of the Nicobar Islanders
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The Definition of a Nation By J PARK HARRISON M
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Discoveries in Asia Minor By J THEODORE BENT
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W H DALTON F G S
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Report of the Committee consisting of Mr R B GRANTHAM Major
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INDEX
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