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Volume InformationSource: Proceedings of the Royal Society of London. Series A, Containing Papers of aMathematical and Physical Character, Vol. 106, No. 735 (Jul. 1, 1924), pp. i-viiPublished by: The Royal SocietyStable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/94229 .
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Minutes of Meetings, June 5, 19, 26; November 6, 13, 20, 1924.
No. A 735.-July 1, 1924. PAGE
The Non-Luminous Oxidation of Phosphorus in an Oxygen Atmosphere. By Lord Rayleigh, F.R.S. .................................................................. 1
On the Absorption and Scattering of y-Rays. By N. Ahmad, M.Sc., Peterhouse, Cambridge, and E. C. Stoner, B.A., Emmanuel College, Cambridge. Com- municated by Prof. Sir E. Rutherford, F.R.S. .............. ............................ 8
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 iDr. C. Chree, F.R.S. (Plate'l) ........... ......................... 19
An Automatic and Continuous Recording Balance. (The Od6n-Keen Balance.) By John R. H. Coutts, Edward M. Crowther, Bernard A. Keen, and Sven Od6n. Communicated by Sir John Russell, F.R.S. ............ ........................ 33
Absorption of Lithium Vapour. By Prof. A. L. Narayan, M.A., D.Sc., and D.x Gunnaiya, M.A. Communicated by Lord Rayleigh, F.R.S. (Plate 2) . 51
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. .................................................................. 55
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. 0. W. Richardson, F.IR.S . ................................................................ 69
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 ................................................................... 83
The Destruction of Rennin by Agitation: A Case of Catalysis at an Air-Liquid Interface. By Eric Keightley Rideal and Charles George Lewis Wolf. Com- municated by Prof. Sir W. J. Pope, F.R.S . ................................................ 97
No. A 736.-August 1, 1924. The Light of the Night Sky: Its Intensity Variations when Analysed by Colour
Filters. By Lord Rayleigh, F.R.S. .......................... 117
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On the Luminescence of Nitrogen, Argon, and other Condensed Gxases 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) ....................................... 138
The Nature and Artificial Production of Consonant Sounds. By Sir Richard A. S. Paget, Bt. Communicated by Sir Win. Bragg, F.R.S . .............................. 150
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, Woolwicb. Communicated by Prof. H. C. Plummer, F.R.S. (Plate 4) .......................................... 174
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) .195
A Disconitinuity in the Dehydrationi of Certain Salt Hydrates. By Edward Mortimer Crowther and John Reginald Horder Coutts. Communicated by Sir John Russell, F.R.S ............. 215
No. A 737.-Septeniber 1, 1924.
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 .222
The Indirect Measurement of the Aqueous Vapour-Pressure of Capillary Systems by the Freezinlg-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. 232
Activity Measurement by the Partition Method.-I. By Bernard Cavanagh, B.A., Balliol College, Oxford. Communicated by Prof. J. W. Nicholson, F.R.S 243
The Catalytic Action of Copper. Part IV.-The Periodic Variation of the Activity with Temperature of Reduction. By W. G. Palmer, Fellow of St. Jolhn's College, Cambridge, anid F. H. Constable, Strathcona Research Student of St. Johin's College, Cambridge. Communicated by Sir William Pope, F.R.S. ... 250
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. ... 268
The Homogeneous Thermal Decomposition of Nitrous Oxide. By C. N. Hinshelwood, Fellow of Trinity College, Oxford, and RX E. Burk, Merton College, Oxford. Communicated by Prof. J. W. Nicholson, F.R.S .284
rhe Kinetics of the Interaction of Nitrous Oxide and Hydr-ogen. By C. N. Hinshelwood, M.A., Fellow of Trinity College, Oxford. Communicated by Prof. J. W. Nicholson, F.R.S. ..................... . 292
Double Fourier Series of a Discontinuous Function. By E. C. Titchmarsh, Fellow of Magdalen College, Oxford ; Senior Lecturer in Pare Mathematics in University College, London. Communicated by Prof. G. H. Hardy, F.R.S. 299
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The Cataphoresis of Gas Bubbles in Water. By Thomas Alty, M.Sc. (Liv.), Ph.D. (Cantab.). Cornmunicated by Sir Joseph Thomson, O.M., F.R.S. ....... ........ 315
Boundary Lubrication.-Further Consideration of the Influence of the Conmposition of the Solid Face. By Ida Doubleday. Communicated by W. B. Hardy, Sec.R S. ... 341
No. A 738.-October 1, 1924.
The Influence of Atomic Arrangement on Refractive Index. By W. L. Bragg, F.R.S., Langworthy Professor of Physics, Manchester University ....... ........... 346
A Theoretical Calculation of the Rhombohedral Angle of Crystals of the Calcite Type. By W. L. Bragg, F.R.S., Langworthy Professor of Physics, and S. Chapinan, F.R.S., Beyer Professor of Mathematics, Manchester University ... 369,
On Ultra-Violet Spectro-photometry. By T. R. Merton, F.R.S. (Plate 7) ......... 37&
The Thermal Expansion of Crystals of Metallic Bismuth. By J. Keith Roberts, Ph.D. (Cantab.). Communicated by Sir Joseph Petavel, F.R.S. ....... ........... 385
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. 40........................................................... 400
Elastic Waves at the Surface of Separation of Two Solids. By R. Stoneley, M.A., University of Leeds. Conmmunicated by Prof. H. F. Baker, F.R.S . ............... 416
Note on Vegard's Theory of the Aurora. By R. d'E. Atkinson, B.A., Research Fellow, Hertford College, Oxford. Communicated by Prof. F. A. Lindeimann, F.R.S ................................................... 429
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. Com- municated by Prof. S. Chapman, F.R.S. .................................................. 441
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. Comiimunicated by Prof. S. Chapman, F.R.S. ....... ........ 463
No. A 739.-November 1, 1924. The Lattice Points of a Circle. By J. E. Littlewood, F.R.S., and A. Walfisz.
(With a Note by Prof. E. Landau) .................................................... 478
Studies of Co-ordination. Part I.--Absorption Spectra and Co-ordination of some Ctupric Compounds. By Helen Somersby French and Thomas Martin Lowry, F.R.S .4.......... 489
Perturbations of Harmonic Tidal Constants. By A. T. Doodson, Tidal Institute, University of Liverpool. Communicated by H. Lamb, F.R.S . ..................... 513
On the Possible Ellipticity of Saturn's Ring. By G. R. Goldsbrough, D.Sc., Armstrong College, Newcastle-upon-Tyne. Communicated by Prof. T. H. Havelock, F.R.S ........... 526
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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, F.R.S ................................... 552
The Conditions for Statistical Equilibrium between Atoms, Electrons and Radiatioin. By P. A. M. Dirac, St. John's College, Cambridge. Com- municated by Prof. Sir E. Rutherford, F.R.S. 581
Absorption and Dispersion of Thallium Vapour. By Prof. A. L. Narayan, M.A., D.Sc., D. Guninaiya, M.A., and K. R. Rao, M.A. Communicated by Lord Rayleigh, F.R.S. (Plate 8) .596
a-Ray Tracks in a Strong Magnetic Field. By P. L. Kapitza, Ph.D. Com- municated by Prof. Sir E. Rutherford, F.R.S. (Plate 9) .602
On the Range of a-Particles in Rare Gases. By L. F. Bates, Ph.D., Trinity College, Canmbridge. Communicated by Prof. Sir E. Rutherford, F.R.S . 622
The 3-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 . 632
No. A 740.-December 1, 1924.
The Striking and Breaking Potentials for Electron Discharges in Hydrogen. By 0. W. Richardson, F.R.S., Yarrow Research Professor of the Royal Society, and T. Tanaka, Professor in the College of Niigata, Japan. (Plate 10) . 640
On a P, Q and R Combination in the Many-L.ined Spectrum of Hydrogen. By 0. W. Richardson, F.R.S., Yarrow Research Professor of the Royal Society, and T. Tanaka, Professor in the College of Niigata, Japa. .663
Controlled Orbital Transfers of Electrons in Optically Excited Mercury Atoms. By R. W. Wood, For. Mem. R.S. (Plate 11) .679
The Molecular Structure of Thin Films.-Part VI. By N. K. Adain, M.A., Sorby Research Fellow of the Royal Society, and J. W. W. Dyer, M.Sc. Communicated by W. B. Hardy, Sec. R.S. 694
On the Determinatioin of Molecular Fields. III.-Fromn Crystal Measuremnents 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. 709
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. Com- municated by Prof. L. N. G. Filon, F.R.S. 718
The Stokes-Einstein Law for Diffusion in Solution. By Christiania Cruickshank Miller, B.Sc., Ph.D., Carnegie Research Scholar, Chemistry Department, University of Edinburgh. Communicated by Sir James Walker, F.R.S. 724
The Structure of Graphite. By J. ID. Bernal, B.A. Commnnicated by Sir William Bragg, F.R.S.. . 749
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The Constants of the Rydberg-Ritz Equation. By J. IE. Jones, Ph.D., Assistant Lecturer in Physics, King's College, London, and J. C. Boyce, M.A., Research Student, King's College. Communicated by Prof. 0. W. Richardson, F.IR.S.... 773
OBITUARY NOTICES OF FELLOWS DECEASED.
John Edward Stead (with portrait) ..............................................i John Alexander McClelland (with portrait) ..................................,., v Arthur Alcock Rambaut ................. ix
Index ............ ....... xiii
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