Volume Information Source: Proceedings of the Royal Society of London. Series A, Mathematical and Physical Sciences, Vol. 162, No. 908 (Sep. 1, 1937), pp. i-vi Published by: The Royal Society Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/96777 . Accessed: 04/05/2014 12:37 Your use of the JSTOR archive indicates your acceptance of the Terms & Conditions of Use, available at . http://www.jstor.org/page/info/about/policies/terms.jsp . JSTOR is a not-for-profit service that helps scholars, researchers, and students discover, use, and build upon a wide range of content in a trusted digital archive. We use information technology and tools to increase productivity and facilitate new forms of scholarship. For more information about JSTOR, please contact [email protected]. . The Royal Society is collaborating with JSTOR to digitize, preserve and extend access to Proceedings of the Royal Society of London. Series A, Mathematical and Physical Sciences. http://www.jstor.org This content downloaded from 130.132.123.28 on Sun, 4 May 2014 12:37:52 PM All use subject to JSTOR Terms and Conditions
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Volume InformationSource: Proceedings of the Royal Society of London. Series A, Mathematical and PhysicalSciences, Vol. 162, No. 908 (Sep. 1, 1937), pp. i-viPublished by: The Royal SocietyStable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/96777 .
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Studies in Contact Potentials. The Condensation of Potassium and Sodium on Tungsten. By R. C. L. Bosworth and E. K. Rideal, F.R.S. (Plate 1) . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
Studies in Contact Potentials. The Evaporation of Sodium Films. By R. C. L. Bosworth. Communicated by E. K. Rideal, F.R.S. . . 32
The Electronic Specific Heat and X-Ray Absorption of Metals, and Some Other Properties Related to Electron Bands. By H. Jones and N. F. Mott, F.R.S. . . . . . . . . . . 49
The Elastic Stability of a Long and Slightly Bent Rectangular Plate under Uniform Shear. By D. M. A. Leggett. Communicated by R. V. Southwell, F.R.S. . . . . . . . . . . 62
The Absorption Spectra of the Monosulphides of Alkaline Earth Elements and their Latent Heats of Vaporization. By L. S. Mathur. Com- municated by M. N. Saha, F.R.S. (Plates 2, 3) . 83
The Angular Distribution of Photoelectrons from the K Shell. By F. F. H. Eggleston and L. H. Martin. Communicated by T. H. Laby, F.R.S. 95
The Absorption Spectrum of Formic Acid in the Vacuum Ultra-Violet. By W. C. Price and W. M. Evans. Communicated by R. G. W. Norrish, F.R.S. (Plate 4) . . . . . . . . 110
The Influence of the Difference of Orientation of Two Crystals on the Mechanical Effect of their Boundary. By Bruce Chalmers. Com- municated by E. N. da C. Andrade, F.R.S. . . . . . 120
Scattering of Slow Neutrons. By M. Goldhaber and G. H. Briggs. Com- municated by Lord Rutherford, O.M., F.R.S. . . . . 127
No. A 909- 15 September 1937
Quaternion Treatment of the Relativistic Wave Equation. By A. W. Conway, F.R.S. . . . . . . . . 145
Theory of Scattering of Protons by Protons. By Sir Arthur Eddington, F.R.S. . . . . . . 155
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Progressive Lightning. III.-The Fine Structure of Return Lightning Strokes. By D. J. Malan and H. Collens. Communicated by Sir Charles Boys, F.R.S. (Plates 5-10) . . 175
Rotatory Dispersion in the Amine Series. I-d-Spiroheptane-Diamine and its Derivatives. By the late T. M. Lowry, F.R.S. and W. C. G. Baldwin. Communicated by R. G. W. Norrish, F.R.S. . . . 204
Rotatory Dispersion in the Amine Series. II-1-Secondary Butylamine and its Derivatives. By W. C. G. Baldwin. Communicated by R. G. W. Norrish, F.R.S. . . . . . . 215
Rotatory Dispersion in the Amine Series. 111-The Absorption Spectra of Diamines. By W. C. G. Baldwin. Communicated by R. G. W. Norrish, F.R.S. . . . . 228
Solution of Oseen's Equations for an Inclined Elliptic Cylinder in a Viscous Fluid. By D. Meksyn. Communicated by L. Bairstow, F.R.S. . . . . 232
Reversible Oxidation of Chlorophyll. By E. Rabinowitch and J. Weiss. Communicated by F. G. Donnan, F.R.S. . . . 251
On the Nature of Atmospherics-V. By R. A. Watson Watt, the late J. F. Herd and F. E. Lutkin. Communicated by Sir George Simpson, F.R.S. . . . . . 267
No. A 910-1 October 1937
The Behaviour of an Osglim Lamp. I-Introduction, Drift, Equilibrium and A.C. Bridge Measurements. By Lewis F. Richardson, F.R.S. (Plate 13) . . . . . . 293
The Behaviour of an Osglim Lamp. II-Oscillograph Methods, Steady Motion and Relaxational Oscillations. By Lewis F. Richardson, F.R.S. (Plates 14-16) . . . . . 316
Stark Effect in Iron and the Contrast with Pole Effect. By S. F. Panter and J. S. Foster, F.R.S. (Plates 17, 18) . . 336
The Stark Effect in Hydrogen and Deuterium. By J. Stuart Foster, F.R.S. and Hawley Snell. (Plates 19, 20) . . . . . . 349
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The Influence of Hydrogen and Deuterium on the Thermal Decomposition of Diethyl Ether in the Low Pressure Region. By J. W. Mitchell and C. N. Hinshelwood, F.R.S. . . . . . . . . 357
Metallic Reflexion and the Surface Photoelectric Effect. By R. E. B. Makinson. Communicated by R. H. Fowler, F.R.S. . . 367
The Shape of the Continuous fl-Spectrum of Thorium C. C'. By H. 0. W. Richardson and Alice Leigh-Smith. Communicated by J. Chadwick, F.R.S. (Plates 21, 22) . . . . . . . . . 391
Experiments on Iron Ammonium Alum in Alternating Fields at very Low Temperatures. By A. H. Cooke and R. A. Hull. Communicated by F. A. Lindemann, F.R.S. . . . . . . . 404
The Absorption Spectrum of Liquid Bromine. By D. Porret. Communi- cated by F. G. Donnan, F.R.S. . . . . . . 414
Investigations of Infra-red Spectra-Absorption of some Hydroxy Com- pounds in the Region of 3,u. By J. J. Fox and A. E. Martin. Com- municated by Sir Robert Robertson, F.R.S. . . . . . 419
The Influence of Temperature on the Capture of Neutrons by Various Elements. By J. L. Michiels and J. A. Saxton. Communicated by G. P. Thomson, F.R.S. . . . . . . . . . 441
The Thermoelastic Properties of Muscle and their Molecular Interpreta- tion. By Kurt H. Meyer and L. E. R. Picken. Abstract . . 450
No. A 911-15 October 1937
The Bakerian Lecture. Regularities and Irregularities in the Ionosphere- I. By E. V. Appleton, F.R.S. (Plates 23-28) . . . . 451
The Tests for Sampling Differences and Contingency. By Harold Jeffreys, F.R.S. . . . . . . . . . . . 479
Researches on the Chemistry of Coal. VIII-Comparative Studies of the Macro-Constituents of Bituminous Coals. By William A. Bone, F.R.S. and Basil J. A. Bard . . . . . . . . 495
The Slow Combustion of Acetylene. By William A. Bone, F.R.S. and J. E. Carruthers . . . . . . . . . . . 502
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The Diffusion of Pairs of Gases with Molecules of Equal Mass. By L. E. Boardman and N. E. Wild. Communicated by S. W. J. Smith, F.R.S. . . . . . . . . . -. . . 511
Neutrons, Degeneracy and White Dwarfs. By D. S. Kothari. Communi- cated by M. N. Saha, F.R.S. . . . . . 521
Nuclear Excitation and Disintegration Collisions involving Strong Interac- tion-1. By H. S. W. Massey and C. B. 0. Mohr. Communicated by R. H. Fowler, F.R.S. . . . . . . . . . 529
The Inhibition by Nitric Oxide of the Decomposition of Ethane. By L. A. K. Staveley. Communicated by C. N. Hinshelwood, F.R.S. 557
X-Ray Analysis of the Dibenzyl Series. IV-Detailed Structure of Stil- bene. By J. Monteath Robertson and I. Woodward. Communicated by Sir William Bragg, O.M., P.R.S. . . . . . 568
The Suspension of Solids in a Turbulent Stream. By E. G. Richardson. Communicated by W. E. Curtis, F.R.S. . . . . . . 583
Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . 599
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