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REPORT

OF THE

SEVENTY-THIRD MEETING

OF THE

BRITISH ASSOCIATION

FOR THE

ADVANCEMENT OF SCIENCE

FELD AT

SOUTHPORT IN SEPTEMBER 1903.

LONDON:

JOHN MURRAY, ALBEMARLE STREET.

1904.

Office of the Association: Burlington House, London, W.

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CONTENTS.

OBJECTS and Rules of the Association

Places and Times of Meeting, with Presidents, Vice-Presidents, and Local

Page

Secretaries from commencement.......

Trustees and General Officers, from 1831

Presidents and Secretaries of the Sections of the Association from 1832 ...

List of Evening Discourses

Lectures to the Operative Classes

Officers of Sectional Committees present at the Southport Meeting .....

Committee of Recommendations at the Southport Meeting

Treasurer's Account ......

Table showing the Attendance and Receipts at the Annual Meetings ...... lxxxii

Officers and Council, 1903-1904

Report of the Council to the General Committee.........

Committees appointed by the General Committee at the Southport Meet-

ing in September 1903.......

Communication ordered to be printed in extenso

Resolutions referred to the Council for consideration, and action if desirable

Synopsis of Grants of Money

Places of Meeting in 1904 and 1905

General Statement of Sums which have been paid on account of Grants for

Scientific Purposes

General Meetings

Address by the President, Sir NORMAN LOCK YER, K.C.B., LL.D., F.R.S....

REPORTS ON THE STATE OF SCIENCE.

[An asterisk* indicates that the title only is given. The mark † indicates the same,

but with a reference to the Journal or Newspaper in which it is published in extenso.]

Investigation of the Upper Atmosphere by Means of Kites in co-operation

with a Committee of the Royal Meteorological Society.-Second Report of

the Committee, consisting of Dr. W. N. SHAW (Chairman), Mr. W. H.

DINES (Secretary), Mr. D. ARCHIBALD, Mr. C. VERNON BOYS, Dr. A.

BUCHAN, Dr. R. T. GLAZEBROOK, Dr. H. R. MILL, and Professor A.

SCHUSTER. (Drawn up by the Secretary.)

.........

Magnetic Observations at Falmouth.-Report of the Committee, consisting of

Sir W. H. PREECE (Chairman), Dr. R. T. GLAZEBROOK (Secretary), Pro-

fessor W. G. ADAMS, Captain CREAK, Mr. W. L. Fox, Professor A.

SCHUSTER, and Sir A. W. RÜCKER, appointed to co-operate with the Com-

mittee of the Falmouth Observatory in their Magnetic Observations

Experiments for Improving the Construction of Practical Standards for

Electrical Measurements.-Report of the Committee, consisting of Lord

RAYLEIGH (Chairman), Dr. R. T. GLAZEBROOK (Secretary), Lord KELVIN,

Professors W. E. AYRTON, J. PERRY, W. G. ADAMS, and G. CAREY FOSTER,

Sir OLIVER J. LODGE, Dr. A. MUIRHEAD, Sir W. H. PREECE, Professors

J. D. EVERETT, A. SCHUSTER, J. A. FLEMING and J. J. THOMSON, Dr.

W. N. SHAW, Dr. J. T. BOTTOMLEY, Rev. T. C. FITZPATRICK, Dr. G.

JOHNSTONE STONEY, Professor S. P. THOMPSON, Mr. J. RENNIE, Dr. E. H.

GRIFFITHS, Sir A. W. RÜCKER, Professor H. L. CALLENDAR, and Mr.

On the Values of the Resistance of certain Standard

Coils of the British Association. By F. E. SMITH.

II.-On some new Mercury Standards of Resistance. By

III. On the Platinum Thermometers of the British Asso-

ciation. By J. A. HARKER, D.Sc.......

IV. Table of the Resistance found for Pure Annealed

On the Use of Vectorial Methods in Physics. By Professor O. HENRICI,

Meteorological Observations on Ben Nevis.-Report of the Committee, consist-

ing of Lord M'LAREN, Professor A. CRUM BROWN (Secretary), Sir JOHN

MURRAY, Frofessor COPELAND, and Dr. ALEXANDER BUCHAN. (Drawn

up by Dr. BUCHAN.)

Report on the Theory of Point-groups. PART III. By FRANCES HARDCASTLE. 65

Seismological Investigations.-Eighth Report of the Committee, consisting

of Professor J. W. JUDD (Chairman), Mr. J. MILNE (Secretary), Lord

KELVIN, Professor T. G. BONNEY, Mr. C. V. Boys, Professor G. H.

DARWIN, Mr. HORACE DARWIN, Major L. DARWIN, Professor J. A. EWING,

Dr. R. T. GLAZEBROOK, Professor C. G. KNOTT, Professor R. MELDOLA,

Mr. R. D. OLDHAM, Professor J. PERRY, Mr. W. E. PLUMMER, Professor

J. H. POYNTING, Mr. CLEMENT REID, Mr. NELSON RICHARDSON, and

Professor H. H. TURNER. (Drawn up by the Secretary.)

I. General Notes on Stations and Registers

II. The Origin of large Earthquakes recorded in 1902 and since 1899

III. Earthquakes and Changes in Latitude

IV. Comparison of Records from three Milne Pendulums at Shide

V. Comparison of Registers from Shide, Kew, Bidston, and Edinburgh 81

VI. Earthquake Commencements as recorded at Strassburg and in

VII. The Velocity of Propagation of Earthquake Vibrations....

Isomorphous Sulphonic Derivatives of Benzene.-Fourth Report of the Com-

mittee, consisting of Professor H. A. MIERS (Chairman), Dr. H. E. ARM-

STRONG (Secretary), Professor W. P. WYNNE, and Professor W. J. POPE.

(Drawn up by the Secretary.)

Wave-length Tables of the Spectra of the Elements and Compounds.-Report

of the Committee, consisting of Sir H. E. RoscoE (Chairman), Dr. MAR-

SHALL WATTS (Secretary), Sir J. N. LOCKYER, Professor J. DEWAR, Pro-

fessor G. D. LIVEING, Professor A. SCHUSTER, Professor W. N. HARTLEY,

Professor WOLCOTT GIBBS, and Captain Sir W. DE W. ABNEY

Absorption Spectra and Chemical Constitution of Organic Substances.-

Fifth Interim Report of the Committee, consisting of Professor W. NOEL

HARTLEY (Chairman and Secretary), Professor F. R. JAPP, Professor J. J.

DOBBIE, and Mr. ALEXANDER LAUDER, appointed to investigate the Rela-

tion between the Absorption Spectra and Chemical Constitution of Organic

On the Possibility of Making Special Reports more available than at present.-

Report of the Committee, consisting of Mr. W. A. SHENSTONE (Chairman),

Dr. M. O. FORSTER (Secretary), Professors E. DIVERS and W. J. POPE,

and Dr. A. W. CROSSLEY

Duty-free Alcohol for Scientific Research.-Report of the Committee, con-

sisting of Sir H. E. ROSCOE (Chairman), Professor H. B. DIXON (Secretary),

Sir MICHAEL FOSTER, Sir A. W. RÜCKER, Dr. T. E. THORPE, Professor

W. H. PERKIN, and Professor W. D. HALLIBURTON

Isomeric Naphthalene Derivatives.-Report of the Committee, consisting of

Professor W. A. TILDEN (Chairman) and Dr. H. E. ARMSTRONG (Secretary).

(Drawn up by the Secretary.)

The Study of Hydro-aromatic Substances.-Report of the Committee, con-

sisting of Dr. E. DIVERS (Chairman), Dr. A. W. CROSSLEY (Secretary),

Professor W. H. PERKIN, and Drs. M. O. FORSTER and LE SUEUR

Recent Work on Hydro-aromatic Substances. By Dr. A. W. CROSSLEY 179

On Dihydrobenzenes and on Aromatic Compounds derived from Hydro-

aromatic Substances. By Dr. A. W. CROSSLEY

Edenvale Caves, co. Clare.-Report of the Committee, consisting of Dr. R. F.

SCHARFF (Chairman), Mr. R. LLOYD PRAEGER (Secretary), Mr. G. COFFEY,

Professor G. A. J. COLE, Professor D. J. CUNNINGHAM, Mr. G. W. LAMP-

LUGHS Mr. A. MCHENRY, and Mr. R. J. USSHER, appointed to explore Irish

Caves. (Drawn up by Mr. R. J. USSHER.)

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