Report of the Annual Meeting

Front Cover

From inside the book

Contents

General Meetings
cxxviii
Note on the Peritoneum in Meles taxus By Professor RICHARD
3
The Cerebrum of Apes By Professor SHERRINGTON F R S and A
4
Investigation of the Upper Atmosphere by Means of Kites in cooperation
31
19
42
Meteorological Observations on Ben Nevis Report of the Committee consist
56
Report on the Theory of Pointgroups PART III By FRANCES HARDCASTLE
65
Seismological Investigations Eighth Report of the Committee consisting
77
Comparison of Records from three Milne Pendulums at Shide
81
Wavelength Tables of the Spectra of the Elements and Compounds Report
87
Absorption Spectra and Chemical Constitution of Organic Substances
126
On the Possibility of Making Special Reports more available than at present
169
Lifezones in the British Carboniferous Rocks Report of the Committee
185
The Movements of Underground Waters of Northwest Yorkshire Fourth
192
Photographs of Geological Interest in the United Kingdom Fourteenth
197
Estuarine Deposits at Kirmington Lincolnshire Preliminary Report of
218
Erratic Blocks of the British Isles Eighth Report of the Committee consisting
231
Observations on Changes in the Sea Coast of the United Kingdom Report
258
Occupation of a Table at the Zoological Station at Naples Report
282
Index Generum et Specierum Animalium Report of the Committee consist
288
Bird Migration in Great Britain and Ireland Sixth and Final Report
289
The State of Solution of Proteids Report of the Committee consisting
304
The Microchemistry of Cells Report of the Committee consisting
310
Womens Labour Third and Final Report of the Committee consisting
315
The Resistance of Road Vehicles to Traction Report of the Committee con
365
Small Screw Gauge Report of the Committee consisting of Sir W
378
Anthropometric Investigation in Great Britain and Ireland Report of
389
Archæological and Ethnological Researches in Crete Report of the Com
402
Silchester Excavations Report of the Committee consisting of Mr ARTHUR
412
Botanical Photographs Report of the Committee consisting of Professor
416
The Teaching of Science in Elementary Schools Report of the Committee
429
The Conditions of Health essential to the Carryingon of the Work
455
Corresponding Societies Committee Report of the Committee consisting
465
SECTION A MATHEMATICAL AND PHYSICAL SCIENCE
525
Über die in der Atmosphäre und im Erdboden enthaltene radioaktive
537
DEPARTMENT OF PHYSICS
556
On the Differential Invariants of Surfaces and of Space By Professor
559
Freezingpoint Curves for Binary Systems By JAMES C PHILIP M A
632
Further Investigation on the Approximate Estimation of Minute Quan
638
The Geology of the Country round Southport By J LOMAS A R C S
654
Report of the Committee on Underground Waters of Northwest York
660
TUESDAY SEPTEMBER 15
666
Supplementary List of Minerals occurring in Ireland By HENRY
671
The Coral Formations of Zanzibar and East Africa By CYRIL CROSSLAND
685
FRIDAY SEPTEMBER 11
691
372
693
A New Form of Osmometer for Direct Determinations of Osmotic
699
SECTION E GEOGRAPHY
701
FRIDAY SEPTEMBER 11
712
MONDAY SEPTEMBER 14
718
TUESDAY SEPTEMBER 15
725
Address by EDWARD W BRABROOK C B President of the Section
729
FRIDAY SEPTEMBER 11
741
Physical Degeneration and the Poverty Line By Mrs H BOSANQUET
747
King Edward VII Bridge over the River Thames between Brentford
773
On Electrical Propulsion as the General Means of Transport By JAMES
779
378
780
History of the Discovery of Natural Gas in Sussex Heathfield District
785
A further Note on Gasengine Explosions By H E WIMPERIS
789
Some Observations on the Pads and Papillary Ridges on the Palm of
802
389
803
The Roman Fort at Brough By JOHN GARSTANG B Litt
808
The Origin of Jewellery By Professor W RIDGEWAY
815
402
816
Mongoloid Europeans By DAVID MACRITCHIE
821
Address by A C SEWARD M A F R S President of the Section
824
Culture Experiments with Biologic Forms of the Erysiphacea
850
On Stimulus and Mechanism as Factors of Organisation By Professor
858
Plants on the Serpentine Rocks in the NorthEast of Scotland By
864
FRIDAY SEPTEMBER 11
882
Discussion on the Teaching of Geography Opened by H J MACKINDER
888
404
890
482
893

Other editions - View all

Common terms and phrases

Popular passages

Page 475 - ... give a stronger impulse and a more systematic direction to scientific inquiry, — to promote the intercourse of those who cultivate Science in different parts of the British Empire, with one another and with foreign philosophers, — to obtain a more general attention to the objects of Science, and a removal of any disadvantages of a public kind which impede its progress.
Page 542 - Say not the struggle naught availeth, The labour and the wounds are vain, The enemy faints not, nor faileth, And as things have been they remain. If hopes were dupes, fears may be liars; It may be, in yon smoke concealed, Your comrades chase e'en now the fliers, And, but for you, possess the field.
Page lxxxviii - It is composed of representatives of management and labour both in the United Kingdom and in the United States of America. In the United Kingdom section the constituent bodies are the Federation of British Industries, the British Employers' Confederation and the Trades Union Congress.
Page 26 - Britain in the domain of learning and discovery, and what they alone can bring. I have also endeavoured to show how, when this is done, the nation will still be less strong than it need be if there be not added to our many existing councils another, to secure that even during peace the benefits which a proper co-ordination of scientific effort in the nation's interest can bring shall not be neglected as they are at present. Lest some of you may think that the scientific organisation which I trust...
Page ci - In view of the increasing importance of science to the nation at large, your committee desire to call the attention of the Council to the fact that in the corresponding societies the British Association has gathered in the various centres represented by these societies practically all the scientific activity of the provinces. The number of members and associates at present on the list of the corresponding societies approaches 25,000, and no organization...
Page 4 - It is a struggle between organized species — nations— not between individuals or any class of individuals. It is, moreover, a struggle in which science and brains take the place of swords and sinews, on which depended the result of those conflicts which, up to the present, have determined the history and fate of nations. The school, the university, the laboratory and the workshop are the battlefields of this new warfare.
Page 4 - Huxley pointed out that we were in presence of a new ' struggle for existence,' a struggle which, once commenced, must go on until only the fittest survives. It is a struggle between organised species — nations — not between individuals or any class of individuals. It is, moreover, a struggle in which science and brains take the place of swords and sinews, on which depended the result of those conflicts which, up to the present, have determined the history and fate of nations.
Page 453 - The report of the committee on the conditions of health essential to the carrying on of the work of instruction in schools...
Page 25 - Haldane has recently reminded us that " the weapons which science places in the hands of those who engage in great rivalries of commerce leave those who are without them, however brave, as badly off as were the dervishes of Omdurman against the Maxims of Lord Kitchener.
Page c - ... Your committee are of opinion that further encouragement should be given to these societies and their individual working members by every means within the power of the Association ; and with the object of keeping the corresponding societies in more permanent touch with the Association they suggest that an official invitation on behalf of the Council be addressed to the societies, through the corresponding societies...

Bibliographic information