Proceedings of the Cambridge Philosophical Society: Mathematical and Physical Sciences, Volumes 11-12

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Cambridge Philosophical Society., 1902 - Science
 

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Page 247 - President, in the chair. The following were elected Fellows of the Society : — Mr.
Page 242 - PRESIDENT, IN THE CHAIR. The following was elected a Fellow of the Society : AL Bennett, BA, Christ's College.
Page 518 - In this figure the curves are equi-intensity curves indicating the ratio of the intensity of the transmitted light to that of the (normally) incident light for a plate o.ooi mm.
Page 396 - The discharge was passed between two aluminium disks 6' and D, each 3 cms. in diameter, which were supported by a framework of thin glass rods which kept them at a constant distance apart Flexible spirals of copper wire connected these electrodes with platinum wires sealed through the ends of the stoppers at. A and B. A coil of thin sheet iron H was fixed to the frame carrying the electrodes and enabled it to be moved along the tube by means of a small electro-magnet. In this way the electrodes E...
Page 241 - PRESIDENT, IN THE CHAIR. The following were elected Officers for the ensuing year: President: Mr GU Yule.
Page 468 - ... ie towards their free edges — which are of course terminated by the mesenterial filaments. Each gonad now consists on its outer side of a series of closely set irregular sperm acini with definite open spaces in their centres, hence, more or less ripe. On the inner side the acini are more rounded and less crowded, but some trace at least of the central space is visible. The ova, generally 2 to 4, appear on the inner edge near the upper end of the mass, and are at first quite minute. No further...
Page 448 - ... where P is the pressure. Calculated from the first sixteen members of the series for a pressure of 760 mm. its mean value is 37-3775, a figure which is practically identical with that calculated by the simpler formula (37'38) from...
Page 479 - ... is given by the equation If the atomic weights are from Clarke's 1901 list with hydrogen as unit, then the greatest difference between the computed and determined value will not exceed 4 units, nor will the error ever be greater than 5 per cent. ; in thirty-six cases the result will not be a unit wrong and in twenty cases will not be I per cent.
Page 249 - The experiments described in this paper were undertaken with the object of detecting and investigating the Hall effect in the positive column of the ordinary electric discha'ge at low pressures.
Page 156 - ... a variable chord of a conic which subtends a right angle at a fixed point 0 on the curve passes through a fixed point on the normal at О (р.

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