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OF THE
SIXTY-FOURTH MEETING
BRITISH ASSOCIATION
FOR THE
ADVANCEMENT OF SCIENCE
HELD AT
OXFORD IN AUGUST 1894.
LONDON:
JOHN MURRAY, ALBEMARLE STREET.
1894.
Office of the Association: Burlington House, London, W
PRINTED BY
SPOTTIS WOODE AND CO., NEW-STREET SQUARE
LONDON
CONTENTS.
Page
xxix
.... xxxix
OBJECTS and Rules of the Association
Places and Times of Meeting and Officers from commencement
Presidents and Secretaries of the Sections of the Association from com-
mencement
xlix
List of Evening Lectures....
lxvii
Lectures to the Operative Classes
lxx
Officers of Sectional Committees present at the Oxford Meeting.........
lxxi
Officers and Council, 1894-95 ....
lxxiii
Treasurer's Account
lxxiv
Table showing the Attendance and Receipts at the Annual Meetings
lxxvi
Report of the Council to the General Committee
lxxviii
Committees appointed by the General Committee at the Oxford Meet-
ing in August 1894
lxxxi
Papers ordered to be printed in extenso
Resolutions relating to the Constitution and Titles of Sections
lxxxix
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Resolutions, referred to the Council for consideration, and action if
desirable
XC
Synopsis of Grants of Money
xci
Places of Meeting in 1895 and 1896
xcii
General Statement of Sums which have been paid on account of Grants
for Scientific Purposes ......................
xciii
General Meetings
cviii
Address by the President, the Most Hon. the Marquis of SALISBURY, K.G.,
D.C.L., F.R.S., Chancellor of the University of Oxford
REPORTS ON THE STATE OF SCIENCE.
[An asterisk* indicates that the title only is given. The mark† indicates the same, but a reference is given to the journal or newspaper where it is published in extenso.]
Corresponding Societies.-Report of the Committee, consisting of Professor R.
MELDOLA (Chairman), Mr. T. V. HOLMES (Secretary), Mr. FRANCIS GALTON,
Sir DOUGLAS GALTON, Sir RAWSON RAWSON, Mr. G. J. SYMONS, Dr. J. G.
GARSON, Sir JOHN EVANS, Mr. J. HOPKINSON, Professor T. G. BONNEY, Mr.
W. WHITAKER, Mr. W. TOPLEY, Professor E. B. POULTON, Mr. CUTHBERT
PEEK, and Rev. Canon H. B. TRISTRAM.
Report on the Present State of our Knowledge of Thermodynamics. By
G. H. BRYAN. Part II.-The Laws of Distribution of Energy and their
Limitations
19
64
APPENDIX A.-The Possible Laws of Partition of Rotatory Energy in
Non-colliding Rigid Bodies.
98
APPENDIX B.-On the Law of Molecular Distribution in the Atmo-
sphere of a Rotating Planet
100
APPENDIX C.-On the Application of the Determinantal Relation to
the Kinetic Theory of Polyatomic Gases. By Professor LUDWIG
BOLTZMANN
102
The Best Methods of recording the Direct Intensity of Solar Radiation.-Tenth
Report of the Committee, consisting of Sir G. G. STOKES (Chairman),
Professor A. SCHUSTER, Mr. G. JOHNSTONE STONEY, Sir H. E. Roscoe,
Captain W. DE W. ABNEY, Mr. C. CHREE, Mr. G. J. SYMONS, Mr. W. E.
WILSON, and Professor H. MCLEOD. (Drawn up by Professor MCLEOD) ... 106
Underground Temperature.-Twentieth Report of the Committee, consisting
of Professor J. D. EVERETT, Professor Lord KELVIN, Mr. G. J. SYMONS,
Sir A. GEIKIE, Mr. J. GLAISHER, Professor EDWARD HULL, Professor J.
PRESTWICH, Dr. C. LE NEVE FOSTER, Professor A. S. HERSCHEL, Professor
G. A. Lebour, Mr. A. B. WYNNE, Mr. W. GALLOWAY, Mr. JOSEPH
DICKINSON, Mr. G. F. DEACON, Mr. E. WETHERED, Mr. A. STRAHAN, and
Professor MICHIE SMITH. (Drawn up by Professor EVERETT, Secretary.) 107
Meteorological Observations on Ben Nevis.-Report of the Committee, consist-
ing of Lord MCLAREN (Chairman), Professor A. CRUM BROWN (Secretary),
Dr. JOHN MURRAY, Dr. ALEXANDER BUCHAN, Hon. RALPH ABERCROMBY,
and Professor R. COPELAND. (Drawn up by Dr. BUCHAN)
Experiments for Improving the Construction of Practical Standards for Elec-
trical Measurements-Report of the Committee, consisting of Professor
CAREY FOSTER (Chairman), Lord KELVIN, Professors AYRTON, J. PERRY,
W. G. ADAMS, and Lord RAYLEIGH, Drs. O. J. LODGE, JOHN HOPKINSON,
and A. MUIRHEAD, Messrs. W. H. PREECE and HERBERT TAYLOR, Professor
J. D. EVERETT, Professor A. SCHUSTER, Dr. J. A. FLEMING, Professors
108
G. F. FITZGERALD, G. CHRYSTAL, and J. J. THOMSON, Messrs. R. T. GLAZE-
BROOK (Secretary) and W. N. SHAW, Rev. T. C. FITZPATRICK, Dr. J. T. Bor-
TOMLEY, Professor J. VIRIAMU JONES, Dr. G. JOHNSTONE STONEY, Professor
S. P. THOMPSON, and Mr. G. FORBES.......
APPENDIX I.-Report of the American Delegates at the Chicago Con-
ference to the Secretary of State at Washington ....
APPENDIX II.-Experiments on the Value of the Ohm. By J.
VIRIAMU JONES
117
119
123
APPENDIX III.-Comparison of the Standards employed by Professor
Jones with the Standards of the Association. By R. T. GLAZEBROOK 128
APPENDIX IV.-Comparison of some of the Standards of the Board of
Trade with those of the Association. By J. RENNIE
APPENDIX V.-Values of Certain Coils belonging to the Indian Govern-
ment. By E. O. WALKER
APPENDIX VI. On the Specific Resistance of Copper and of Silver.
By Rev. T. C. FITZPATRICK
130
131
.... 131
APPENDIX VII.-Final Report of the Electrical Standards Committee
of the Board of Trade, and Order in Council regarding Standards for
Electrical Measurements
The Application of Photography to the Elucidation of Meteorological Pheno-
mena-Fourth Report of the Committee, consisting of Mr. G. J. SYMONS
(Chairman), Professor R. MELDOLA, Mr. J. HOPKINSON, and Mr. A. W.
CLAYDEN (Secretary). (Drawn up by the Secretary)
Earth Tremors.-Report of the Committee, consisting of Mr. G. J. SYMONS,
Mr. C. DAVISON (Secretary), Sir F. J. BRAMWELL, Professor G. II. DARWIN,
Professor J. A. EWING, Dr. ISAAC ROBERTS, Mr. THOMAS GRAY, Sir JOHN
EVANS, Professors J. PRESTWICH, E. HULL, G. A. LEBOUR, R. Meldola,
and J. W. JUDD, Mr. M. WALTON BROWN, Mr. J. GLAISHER, Professor C.
G. KNOTT, Professor J. H. PoYNTING, Mr. HORACE DARWIN, and Dr. R.
COPELAND. (Drawn up by the Secretary) .....
APPENDIX I.-Account of Observations made with the Horizontal
Pendulum at Nicolaiew. By Professor S. KORTAZZI
APPENDIX II—The Bifilar Pendulum at the Royal Observatory, Edin-
burgh. By Professor R. COPELAND
........
The Electrolytic Methods of Quantitative Analysis.-Report of the Committee,
consisting of Professor J. EMERSON REYNOLDS (Chairman), Dr. C. A. KOHN
(Secretary), Professor P. FRANKLAND, Professor F. CLOWES, Dr. HUGH
MARSHALL, Mr. A. E. FLETCHER, Mr. D. H. NAGEL, Mr. T. TURNER, and
Mr. J. B. COLEMAN
Bibliography of Spectroscopy.-Report of the Committee, consisting of Pro-
fessor H. MCLEOD (Chairman), Professor W. C. ROBERTS-AUSTEN, Mr. H. G.
MADAN, and Mr. D. H. NAGEL..
An International Standard for the Analysis of Iron and Steel.-Sixth Report
cf the Committee, consisting of Professor W. C. ROBERTS-AUSTEN (Chairman),
Sir F. ABEL, Mr. E. RILEY, Mr. J. SPILLER, Professor J. W. LANGLEY, Mr.
G. J. SNELUS, Professor TILDEN, and Mr. THOMAS TURNER (Secretary).
(Drawn up by the Secretary)
The Action of Light upon Dyed Colours.-Report of the Committee, consisting
of Professor T. E. THORPE (Chairman), Professor J. J. HUMMEL (Secretary),
Dr. W. H. PERKIN, Professor W. J. RUSSELL, Captain W. DE W. ABNEY,
Professor W. STROUD, and Professor R. MELDOLA. (Drawn up by the
Secretary)
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