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REPORT
OF THE
SEVENTY-THIRD MEETING
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.
CONTENTS.
OBJECTS and Rules of the Association
Places and Times of Meeting, with Presidents, Vice-Presidents, and Local
Page
xxvii
Secretaries from commencement.......
xxxviii
Trustees and General Officers, from 1831
lii
Presidents and Secretaries of the Sections of the Association from 1832 ...
liii
List of Evening Discourses
..... lxxii
Lectures to the Operative Classes
... lxxvi
Officers of Sectional Committees present at the Southport Meeting .....
lxxvii
Committee of Recommendations at the Southport Meeting
lxxix
Treasurer's Account ......
lxxx
Table showing the Attendance and Receipts at the Annual Meetings ...... lxxxii
Officers and Council, 1903-1904
lxxxiv
Report of the Council to the General Committee.........
lxxxv
Committees appointed by the General Committee at the Southport Meet-
ing in September 1903.......
xovii
Communication ordered to be printed in extenso
cvi
Resolutions referred to the Council for consideration, and action if desirable
Synopsis of Grants of Money
cviii
Places of Meeting in 1904 and 1905
cix
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....
CX
cxxviii
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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.
GEORGE MATTHEY
APPENDIX
I.
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
F. E SMITH
44
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III. On the Platinum Thermometers of the British Asso-
ciation. By J. A. HARKER, D.Sc.......
45
IV. Table of the Resistance found for Pure Annealed
Copper
51
On the Use of Vectorial Methods in Physics. By Professor O. HENRICI,
Ph.D., F.R.S.
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.)
56
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
77
78
81
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
Britain.....
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
Substances
...........
82
84
85
87
126
169
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
170
Isomeric Naphthalene Derivatives.-Report of the Committee, consisting of
Professor W. A. TILDEN (Chairman) and Dr. H. E. ARMSTRONG (Secretary).
174
179
182
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.)
183