Proceedings of the Royal Society of London, Volume 38

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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 105 - The general result of the foregoing paper seems to be that the fuller consideration of the physical properties of glacier ice leads to essentially the same conclusions as those to which Forbes was led forty years ago by the study of the larger phenomena of glacier motion — that is, that the motion is that of a slightly viscous mass partly sliding upon its bed, partly shearing upon itself under the influence of gravity.
Page 424 - Laurie), contains the record of experiments made by the author with the aid of a grant from the Government Grant Committee of the Royal Society. The...
Page 399 - The cerium group consists of cerium, lanthanum, didymium, and samarium. The first necessity was to get the earths ceria, lanthana, and the mixture hitherto called didymia, in a pure state ; for my socalled pure earths of this group all showed the orange band in more or less degree. The separation from each other of ceria, lanthana, didymia, and samaria is a most laborious process, and the amounts of these earths, obtainable in anything like a pure state, is small, compared with the mass of material...
Page 397 - Insolubility as ordinarily understood is a fiction, and separation by precipitants is nearly impossible. A new chemistry has to be slowly built up, taking for data uncertain and deceptive indications, marred by the interfering power of mass in withdrawing soluble salts from a solution, and by the solubility of nearly all precipitates in water or in ammoniacal salts, when present in traces only.
Page 250 - ... consequent elongation, instead of remaining stationary at a maximum, becomes diminished, the diminution increasing with the magnetising force. If the force is sufficiently increased, a point is arrived at where the original length of the rod is totally unaffected by magnetisation ; and if the magnetisation be carried still further, the original length of the rod will be reduced. It also appeared that the position of the critical point in steel depended in a very remarkable manner upon the hardness...
Page 358 - In 1860 he was elected to the newly-founded Linacre Professorship of Anatomy and Physiology, which he held to the time of his death. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1862, and a Fellow of Merton College, Oxford, in 1872.
Page 250 - Nickel continues to retract with magnetising forces far exceeding those which produce the maximum elongation of iron. The greatest observed retraction of nickel is more than three times the maximum observed elongation of iron, and the limit has not yet been reached. (12) A nickel wire stretched by a weight undergoes retraction when magnetised.
Page 404 - One important lesson taught by the many anomalies unearthed in these researches is that inferences drawn from spectrum analysis per se are liable to grave doubt, unless at every step the spectroscopist goes hand in hand with the chemist. Spectroscopy may give valuable indications, but chemistry must after all be the court of final appeal.
Page 209 - sort of flame" during high incandescence, showing by its spectrum the presence of carbonic oxide. It was strongest about the junction of the carbon thread and the positive electrode. It was, according to them, the glow of the positive pole attending a discharge in rarefied gas. It is a common thing with glow-lamps which have the heels of the filament close together to have an arc forming across when the electromotive force at the terminals is too high. Hence in recent lamps requiring 100 volts, Mr....
Page 376 - In like manner some pairs of units are distinguished from each other while others are not. Pairs may be distinguished even though the units composing them are not. Thus the angular points of a square are undistinguishable from each other, and a pair of such points lying at the extremities of a side are undistinguishable from the three other like pairs, but are...

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