Author: ROYAL SOCIETY
Title: Proceedings of the Royal Society of London. Series A. Mathematical and Physical Sciences. Volume CVI 1924 (Numbers 735-740)
Description: London: The Royal Society, 1924. First Edition; First Edition. Library Buckram. Vii, 784, xvi pages. With plates, (folding) diagrams, tables & illustrations. Original wrappers bound in. With library stamps & labels. Slight wear & slight soiling to spine, covers & corners. ; Ex-Library; Quarto; SERIES A. VOL. CVI Notes of Meetings, June 5, 19, 26 ; November 6, 13, 20, 1924.No. A 735.-July 1, 1924.Ñ The Non-Luminous Oxidation of Phosphorus in an Oxygen Atmosphere. By Lord Rayleigh, F. R. S Ñ On the Absorption and Scattering of ? -rays. By N. Ahmad, M. Sc, Peterhouse, Cambridge, and E. C. Stoner, B. A, Emmanuel College, Cambridge. Communicated by Prof. Sir E. Rutherford, F. R. S Ñ The 27-day Period (Interval) in Terrestrial Magnetic Disturbance. By the Rev. A. L. Cortie, S. J, D. Sc, F. Inst. P, Director, Stonyhurst College Observatory. Communicated by Dr. C. Chree, F. R. S. (Plate 1) Ñ An Automatic and Continuous Recording Balance. (The OdÄn-Keen Balance. ) By John R. H. Coutts, Edward M. Crowther, Bernard A. Keen, and Sven OdÄn. Communicated by Sir John Russell, F. R. S Ñ Absorption of Lithium Vapour. By Prof. A. L. Narayan, M. A, D. Sc, and D. Gunnaiya, M. A. Communicated by Lord Rayleigh, F. R. S. (Plate 2) Ñ The Use of the Coherer to Investigate Adsorption Films. By William George Palmer, Fellow of St. John+s College, Cambridge. Communicated by Sir William Pope, F. R. S Ñ The Band Spectrum of Hydrogen. By H. Stanley Allen, M. A, D. Sc, Professor of Natural Philosophy in the University of St. Andrews. Communicated by Prof. O. W. Richardson, F. R. SÑ An Experimental Study of the Viscous Properties of Water Vapour. By C. J. Smith, M. Sc, A. R. C. S, D. I. C, Demonstrator, Physics Department, Imperial College of Science and Technology. Communicated by Prof. H. L. Callendar, F. R. S. Ñ Tie Destruction of Rennin by Agitation : A Case of Catalysis at an Air-Liquid Interface. By Eric Keightley Rideal and Charles George Lewis Wolf. Communicated by Prof. Sir W. J. Pope, F. R. SNo. A 736.-August 1, 1924.Ñ The Light of the Night Sky : Its Intensity Variations when Analysed by Colour Filters. By Lord Rayleigh, F. R. S Ñ On the Luminescence of Nitrogen, Argon, and other Condensed Gases at very Low Temperatures. By J. C. McLennan, F. R. S, Professor of Physics, and G. M. Shrum, Ph. D, University of Toronto. (Plate 3) Ñ The Nature and Artificial Production of Consonant Sounds. By Sir Richard A. S. Paget, Bt. Communicated by Sir Wm. Bragg, F. R. S Ñ On the Band-Spectra of Silicon Oxide and Chloride, and Chlorides of Carbon, Boron, and Aluminium. By W. Jevons, M. Sc, A. R. C. Sc, F. Inst. P, Lecturer in Physics, Artillery College, Woolwich. Communicated by Prof. H. C. Plummer, F. R. S. (Plate 4) Ñ The Effect of Argon on Certain Spectra. By R. C. Johnson, B. A, B. Sc, Lecturer in Physics, and W. H. B. Cameron, B. Sc, Research Student, Queen+s University, Belfast. Communicated by T. R. Merton, F. R. S. (Plates 5 and 6) Ñ A Discontinuity in the Dehydration of Certain Salt Hydrates. By Edward Mortimer Crowther and John Reginald Horder Coutts. Communicated by Sir John Russell, F. R. S No. A 737.-September 1, 1924.Ñ On the Drift of Spinning Projectiles. By J. W. Campbell, Ph. D, Assoc. Professor of Mathematics, University of Alberta, Canada. Communicated by Dr. J. S. Plaskett, F. R. S Ñ The Indirect Measurement of the Aqueous Vapour-Pressure of Capillary Systems by the Freezing-point Depression of Benzene. By Edward Mortimer Crowther and Amar Nath Puri, Soil Physics Department, Rothamsted Experimental Station. Communicated by Sir John Russell, F. R. S Ñ Activity Measurement by the Partition Method. -I. By Bernard Cavanagh, B. A, Balliol College, Oxford. Communicated by Prof. J. W. Nicholson, F. R. S Ñ The Catalytic Action of Copper. Part IV. -The Periodic Variation of the Activity with Temperature of Reduction. By W. G. Palmer, Fellow of St. John+s College, Cambridge, and F. H. Constable, Strathcona Research Student of St. John+s College, Cambridge. Communicated by Sir William Pope, F. R. S. Ñ The Elastic Stability of an Annular Plate. By W. R. Dean, B. A, Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge. Communicated by Prof. G. I. Taylor, F. R. S. Ñ The Homogeneous Thermal Decomposition of Nitrous Oxide. By C. N. Hinshelwood, Fellow of Trinity College, Oxford, and R. E. Burk, Merton College, Oxford. Communicated by Prof. J. W. Nicholson, F. R. S Ñ The Kinetics of the Interaction of Nitrous Oxide and Hydrogen. By C. N. Hinshelwood, M. A, Fellow of Trinity College, Oxford. Communicated by Prof. J. W. Nicholson, F. R. S Ñ Double Fourier Series of a Discontinuous Function. By E. C. Titehmarsh, Fellow of Magdalen College, Oxford ; Senior Lecturer in Pure Mathematics in University College, London. Communicated by Prof. G. H. Hardy, F. R. S. Ñ The Cataphoresis of Gas Bubbles in Water. By Thomas Alty, M. Sc. (Liv. ) , Ph. D. (Cantab. ) . Communicated by Sir Joseph Thomson, O. M, F. R. S. Ñ Boundary Lubrication. -Further Consideration of the Influence of the Composition of the Solid Face. By Ida Doubleday. Communicated by W. B. Hardy, Sec. K. S No. A 738.-October 1, 1924.Ñ The Influence of Atomic Arrangement on Refractive Index. By W. L. Bragg, F. R. S. Langworthy Professor of Physics, Manchester University Ñ A Theoretical Calculation of the Bhombohedral Angle of Crystals of the Calcite Type. By W. L. Bragg, F. R. S, Langworthy Professor of Physics, and S. Chapman, F. R. S, Beyer Professor of Mathematics, Manchester UniversityÑ On Ultra-Violet Spectro-photometry. By T. B. Merton, F. R. S. (Plate 7) Ñ The Thermal Expansion of Crystals of Metallic Bismuth. By J. Keith Boberts, Ph. D. (Cantab. ) . Communicated by Sir Joseph Petavel, F. R. S. Ñ On the Fine Structure of the Band-Spectra of Sodium, Potassium, and Sodium- Potassium Vapours. By H. Grayson Smith, M. A. Communicated by Prof. J. C. McLennan, F. R. S. Ñ Elastic Waves at the Surface of Separation of Two Solids. By B. Stoneley, M. A, University of Leeds. Communicated by Prof. H. F. Baker, F. R. S. Ñ Note on Vegard+s Theory of the Aurora. By B. D+E. Atkinson, B. A, Research Fellow, Hertford College, Oxford. Communicated by Prof. F. A. Lindemann, F. R. S Ñ On the Determination of Molecular Fields. -I. From the Variation of the Viscosity of a Gas with Temperature. By J. E. Jones, D. Sc. (Manchester) , 1851 Exhibition Senior Research Student, Trinity College, Cambridge. Communicated by Prof. S. Chapman, F. R. S. Ñ On the Determination of Molecular Fields. -II. From the Equation of State of a Gas. By J. E. Jones, D. Sc, 1851 Exhibition Senior Research Student, Trinity College, Cambridge. Communicated by Prof. S. Chapman, F. R. S. No. A 739.-November 1, 1924.Ñ The Lattice Points of a Circle. By J. E. Littlewood, F. R. S, and A. Walfisz. (With a Note by Prof. E. Landau) Ñ Studies of Co-ordination. Part I. -Absorption Spectra ancf Co-ordination of some Cupric Compounds. By Helen Somersby French and Thomas Martin Lowry, F. R. S. Ñ Perturbations of Harmonic Tidal Constants. By A. T. Doodson, Tidal Institute, University of Liverpool. Communicated by H. Lamb, F. R. S. Ñ On the Possible Ellipticity of Saturn+s Bing. By G. B. Goldsbrough, D. Sc, Armstrong College, Newcastle-upon-Tyne. Communicated by Prof. T. H. Havelock, F. R. S. Ñ Some Relations between the Optical Spectra of Different Atoms of the Same Electron Structure. I. -Lithium-like and Sodium-like Atoms. By D. R. Hartree, St. John+s College, Cambridge. Communicated by Prof. Sir E. Rutherford, E. R. S Ñ The Conditions for Statistical Equilibrium between Atoms, Electrons and Radiation. By P. A. M. Dirac, St. John+s College, Cambridge. Communicated by Prof. Sir E. Rutherford, F. R. S Ñ Absorption and Dispersion of Thallium Vapour. By Prof. A. L. Narayan, M. A, D. Sc, D. Gunnaiya, M. A, and K. R. Rao, M. A. Communicated by Lord Rayleigh, F. R. S. (Plate 8) Ñ a-Ray Tracks in a Strong Magnetic Field. By P. L. Kapitza, Ph. D. Communicated by Prof. Sir E. Rutherford, F. R. S. (Plate 9) Ñ On the Range of a-Particles in Rare Gases. By L. F. Bates, Ph. D, Trinity College, Cambridge. Communicated by Prof. Sir E. Rutherford, F. R. S Ñ The º-Ray Spectrum of Mesothorium 2. By D. H. Black, M. Sc. (N. Z. ) , Emmanuel College, Cambridge. Communicated by Prof. Sir E. Rutherford, F. R. S No. A 740.-December 1, 1924.Ñ The Striking and Breaking Potentials for Electron Discharges in Hydrogen. By O. W. Richardson, F. R. S, Yarrow Research Professor of the Royal. Society, and T. Tanaka, Professor in the College of Niigata, Japan. (Plate 10) Ñ On a P, Q and R Combination in the Many-Lined Spectrum of Hydrogen. By O. W. Richardson, F. R. S, Yarrow Research Professor of the Royal Society, and T. Tanaka, Professor in the College of Niigata, Japan Ñ Controlled Orbital Transfers of Electrons in Optically Excited Mercury Atoms. By R. W. Wood, For. Mem. R. S. (Plate 11) Ñ The Molecular Structure of Thin Films. -Part VI. By N. K. Adam, M. A, Sorby Research Fellow of the Royal Society, and J. W. W. Dyer, M. Sc. Communicated by W. B. Hardy, Sec. R. S Ñ On the Determination of Molecular Fields. III. -From Crystal Measurements and Kinetic Theory Data. By J. E. Jones, D. Sc, 1851 Exhibition Senior Research Student, Trinity College, Cambridge. Communicated by Prof. S. Chapman, F. R. S Ñ The Photo-Elastic Constants of Glass as affected by High Temperatures and by Lapse of Time. By F. C. Harris, M. Sc, University College, London. Communicated by Prof. L. N. G. Filon, F. R. SÑ The Stokes-Einstein Law for Diffusion in Solution. By Christiana Cruickshank Miller, B. Sc, Ph. D, Carnegie Research Scholar, Chemistry Department, University of Edinburgh. Communicated by Sir James Walker, F. R. S Ñ The Structure of Graphite. By J. D. Bernal, B. A. Communicated by Sir William Bragg, F. R. S Ñ The Constants of the Rydberg-Ritz Equation. By J. H. Jones, Ph. D, Assistant Lecturer in Physios, King+s College, London, and J. C. Boyce, M. A, Research Student, King+s College. Communicated by Prof. O. W. Richardson, F.R.S. Ñ OBITUARY NOTICES OF FELLOWS DECEASED. John Edward Stead (with portrait) John Alexander McClelland (with portrait) Arthur Alcock Rambaut. Good .

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