Author: ROYAL SOCIETY
Title: Proceedings of the Royal Society of London. Series A. Mathematical and Physical Sciences. Volume CVIII 1925 (Numbers 745-748)
Description: London: The Royal Society, 1925. First Edition; First Edition. Library Buckram. Vii, 670 pages. With plates, diagrams, tables & illustrations. Original wrappers bound in. With library stamps & labels. Slight wear & slight soiling to spine, covers & corners. Occasional spot of foxing. ; Ex-Library; Quarto; SERIES A. VOL. CVIII. Ñ Minutes of Meetings, April 2 ; May 7, 14, 21, 28 ; and June 11, 18, 25, 1925.No. A 745.-May 1, 1925.Ñ Bakerian Lecture. -Boundary Lubrication. -Plane Surfaces and the Limitations of Amontons+ Law. By Sir William Hardy, Sec. R. S, and Ida Bircumshaw Ñ The Plastic Extension and Fracture of Aluminium Crystals. By G. I. Taylor, F. R. S, and C. F. ElamÑ The Transmission of Electric Waves around the Earth's Surface. By H. M. Macdonald, F. R. SÑ Studies in Wave Resistance : the Effect of Parallel Middle Body. By T. H. Havelock, F. R. S Ñ Laplace+s Equation and Surfaces of Revolution. By D. M. Wrinch, M. A, D. Sc, Lecturer at Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford, and J. W. Nicholson, M. A, D. Sc, F. R. S, Fellow of Balliol College, Oxford Ñ A Theory of the Catalytic Surface. By Hugh Stott Taylor, D. Sc, Associate Professor of Physical Chemistry, Princeton University. Communicated by Dr. E. F. Armstrong, F. R. S Ñ A Study of Catalytic Actions at Solid Surfaces. Part XII. -Some Observations relative to those Particles of a Catalyst which participate in Chemical Change. By E. F. Armstrong, D. Sc, F. R. S, and T. P. Hilditch, D. Sc Ñ A Study of Catalytic Actions at Solid Surfaces. Part XIII. -Some Factors Controlling Selective Hydrogenation, with Particular Reference to Certain Terpeue Derivatives. By E. F. Armstrong, D. Sc, F. R. S, and T. P. Hilditch, D. Sc Ñ The Thermal Decomposition of Derivatives of Oxalacetic Ester-a Unimolecular Reaction. By David Lindsay Watson, B. Se, Ph. D, Carnegie Research Scholar, Chemistry Department, University of Edinburgh. Communicated by Prof. Sir James Walker, F. R. S Ñ Viscosity Measurements with Glass. By Vaughan H. Stott, M. Sc, Edith Irvine, B. Sc, and D. Turner, B. Sc. Tech. (of the National Physical Laboratory) . Communicated by Dr. W. Rosenhain, F. R. S Ñ The Interaction of Carbon Dioxide and Hydrogen in the Corona due to Alternating Currents of High Frequency. By R. Winstanley Lunt, M. Sc, Ph. D, Ramsay Memorial Fellow. Communicated by Prof. F. G. Donnan, F. R. S. Ñ The Passage of Cathode Rays through Matter. By B. F. J. Schonland, M. A, Ph. D, Senior Lecturer in Physics, University of Cape Town. Communicated by Prof. Sir E. Rutherford, F. R. SÑ The Catalytic Decomposition of Nitrous Oxide on the Surface of Gold : a Comparison with the Homogeneous Reaction. By C. N. Hinshelwood, M. A, Fellow of Trinity College, Oxford, and C. R. Prichard, B. A, Scholar of Trinity College, Oxford. Communicated by Prof. J. W. Nicholson, F. R. S Ñ Experiments on the Effects of Resistance in the Oscillating Circuit of a Triode. By J. H. Vincent, M. A, D. Sc, A. RC. Sc, F. Inst. P, M. I. E. E, and A. L. Beak, A. M. I. E. E, Physics Department L. C. C. Paddington Technical Institute. Communicated bjr Prof. W. H. Eccles, F. R. S No. A 746.-June 2, 1925.Ñ The Plastic Deformation of Iron and the Formation of Neumann Lines. By Walter Rosenliain, D. Sc, F. R. S, and Jean McMinn, B. Sc. (Plates 1-3) Ñ The Monoclinic Double Sulphates containing Thallium. -Thallium Nickel, and Thallium Cobalt Sulphates. By A. E. II. Tutton, D. Sc, M. A, F. R. S, Past- President of the Mineralogical Society Ñ Luminous Vapour from the Mercury Arc and the Progressive Changes in its Spectrum. By Lord Rayleigh, F. R. S. (Plates 4 and 5) Ñ The Effect of Light on the Settling of Suspensions. By C. G. T. Morison, M. A, School of Rural Economy, Oxford, Communicated by T. R. Merton, F. R. S. (Plate 6) Ñ An Electrical Method for the Study of Impact Applied to the Struck String. By W. H. George, M. Sc, University College, Nottingham. Communicated by Prof. E. H. Barton, F. R. S. (Plates 7-9) Ñ On the Inner Crystalline Structure of Ferrite and Cementite in Pearlite. By Colonel N. T. Belaiew, C. B, F. C. S. Communicated by H. C. H. Carpenter, F. R. S. (Plates 10-13) Ñ The Velocity of Ice Crystallisation through Supercooled Gelatin Gels. By Ernest Harold Callow. Communicated by Sir W. B. Hardy, Sec. R. S Ñ An Explanation of the so-called Intertraction Phenomenon between Solutions, and the Molecular Significance of Negative Surface Tension. By N. K. Adam, M. A, Royal Society Sorby Research Fellow, and G. Jessop, Ph. D. Communicated by Sir William Hardy, Sec. R. S. (Plates 14-16) Ñ The Spectra of Doubly- and Trebly-Ionised Phosphorus (P III and P IV) . By M. O. Saltmarsh, B. A, Ph. D. Communicated by Prof. A. Fowler, F. R. S. (Plates 17 and 18) Ñ Further Spectra associated with Carbon. By R. C. Johnson, B. A, Ph. D, Lecturer in Physics, Queen+s University, Belfast. Communicated by T. R. Merton, F. R. S. (Plate 19) Ñ The Mechanism of Catalytic Decomposition. By F. H. Constable, Strathcona Research Student of St. John+s College, Cambridge. Communicated by Sir William Pope, F. R. S. Ñ Thermal Separation in Gaseous Mixtures. By G. A. Elliott, B. Sc, University College, London, and Irvine Masson, D. Sc, University of Durham. Communicated by Prof. P. G. Donnan, F. R. S. No. A 747.-July 1, 1925.Ñ The Condition that the ratio of the Intensities of the Transmitted and reflected Electric Waves at the Interface between Two Media is Independent of their Plane of Polarisation. By H. M. Macdonald, F. R. S. Ñ Gaseous Combustion at High Pressures. -Part V. The Explosion of Hydrogen- Air and Carbon Monoxide-Air Mixtures at Varying Initial Pressures up to 175 Atmospheres. By William A. Bone, D. Sc, F. R. S, D. M. Newitt, Ph. D, D. I. C, and D. T. A. Townend, Ph. D, D. I. C. International Research Fellow) Ñ A General Vector Analysis, with Applications to Electrodynamical Theory. By H. T. Flint, Lecturer in Physics, University of London, King+s College. Communicated by Prof. O. W. Richardson, F. R. S Ñ An Investigation of the relationships Existing between Hydrogen and Palladium. By Bertram Lambert, M. A, Fellow of Merton College, Oxford, and Stanley Frederick Gates, B. Sc, M. A, St. John+s College, Oxford. Communicated by Prof. F. Soddy, F. R. S. Ñ The Photometric Matching Field. -II. The Effect of Peripheral Stimulation of the retina on the Contrast Sensibility of the Fovea. By S. A. Emerson, A. B. C. S, B. Sc, Research Student, and L. C. Martin, D. Sc, A. B. C. S, D. I. C, Lecturer in the Optical Engineering Department, Imperial College of Science and Technology. Communicated by Prof. H. L. Callendar, F. R. S. Ñ On the Origin of the Auroral Green Line 5577 ü, and other Spectra Associated with the Aurora Borealis. By J. C. McLennan, F. R. S, Professor of Physics, and G. M. Shrum, Ph. D, University of Toronto. (Plates 20 and 21) Ñ The Structure of the Band Spectrum of Helium. --III. The Doublet Bands. By W. E. Curtis, D. Sc, A. B. C. S, Beader in Physics in the University of London, King+s College, and B. G. Long, B. Sc, King+s College. Communicated by Prof. O. W. Richardson, F. R. S. Ñ An X-Ray Examination of Iodo-Succinimide. By Kathleen Yardley, M. Sc. Communicated by Sir William Bragg, F. R. S. (Plates 22 and 23) Ñ The Crystallographic and Optical Properties of Iodo-Succinimide. By A. E. H. Tutton, D. Sc, M. A, F. R. S. No. A 748.-August 1, 1925.Ñ Structure in the Secondary Hydrogen Spectrum. By O. W. Richardson, F. R. S, Yarrow Research Professor of the Boya! Society, King+s College, London Ñ The Scattering of Light by Liquid Boundaries and its Belation to Surface-Tension. - Part I. By C. V. Raman, M. A, D. Sc, F. R. S, Palit Professor of Physics, and L. A. Ramdas, M. A, Palit Research Scholar, University of Calcutta. (Plate 24.) Ñ On the Series Spectrum of Gold. By J. C. McLennan, F. R. S, Professor of Physics, and A. B. McLay, M. A, University of Toronto Ñ Wave Resistance : the Effect of Varying Draught. By T. H. Havelock, F. R. S. Ñ Wave-Lengths of Additional Lines in the Many-Lined Spectrum of Hydrogen. By T. Tanaka, Professor in the College of Niigata, Japan ; King+s College, London. Communicated by Prof. O. W. Richardson, F. R. S Ñ The Secondary Spectrum of Hydrogen at Higher Pressures. By Ian Sandeman, M. A, B. Sc, Carnegie Research Scholar, The University, St. Andrews. Communicated by Prof. O. W. Richardson, F. R. S Ñ The Effect of Infra-Red Radiation upon the Rate of Combustion of Inflammable Gaseous Mixtures. By W. T. David, Sc. D, M. Inst. C. E, Professor of Engineering in the University of Leeds. Communicated by Sir Dugald Clerk, F. R. S. Ñ A Critical Study of the Direct Method of Measuring the Osmotic Pressure of Haemoglobin. By G. S. Adair, Fellow of King+s College, Cambridge. Communicated by Sir William Hardy, Sec. R. SÑ The Gyro-Magnetic Ratio for Magnetite and Cobalt. By W. Sucksmith, B. Sc, Assistant Lecturer in Physics, University of Bristol. Communicated by Prof. O. W. Richardson, F. R. S Ñ The Application of X-Rays to the Study of Alloys. By H. Weiss, Docteur dÅs Sciences Physiques, Ramsay Memorial Fellow. Communicated by Sir William Bragg, F.R.S Ñ On the Distribution of Intensity in the X-Ray Spectra of Certain Long-Chain Organic Compounds. By G. Shearer, M.A, Ph.D. Communicated by Sir William Bragg, F.R.S. Good .

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