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Excerpt from Proceedings of the Royal Society of London, Vol. 28: From November 21, 1878, to April 24, 1879
No. 191. - December 6, 1878; On the Illumination of Lines of Molecular Pressure, and the Trajectory of Molecules. By William Crookes, F. R. S., V. P. C. S.; On a Machine for the Solution of Simultaneous Linear Equations. By Sir William Thomson; December 12, 1878; On the Flow of Water in Uniform Regime in Rivers and other Open Channels. By James Thomson, LL. D., D. Sc., F. R. S., and F. R. S. E., Professor of Civil Engineering and Mechanics in the University of Glasgow; The Maine Mirror of Japan. Part I. By Professors W. E. Ayrton and John Perry, of the Imperial College of Engineering, Japan; On the Torsional Strain which remains in a Glass Fibre after release from Twisting Stress. By J. Hopkinson, D. Sc., F. R. S.; Note in Correction of an Error in the Rev. Dr. Haughton's Paper "Notes on Physical Geology. No. V" ("Proc. Roy. Soc.," vol. xxvii, p. 447). By the Rev. Samuel Haughton, M. D., Professor of Geology in the University of Dublin, F. R. S.; Measurements of Electrical Constants. No. II. On the Specific Inductive Capacities of Certain Dielectrics. Part I. By J. H. Gordon, B. A. Camb.; Researches in Spectrum Analysis in connexion with the Spectrum of the Sun. No. VII. By J. N. Lockyer, F. R. S.; December 19, 1878; Note of an Experiment on the Spectrum of the Electric Discharge. By the Hon. Sir W. R. Grove, D. C. L., V. P. R. S.; On the Precession of a Viscous Spheroid, and on the Remote History of the Earth. By George H. Darwin, M. A., Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge; Problems connected with the Tides of a Viscous Spheroid. By G. H. Darwin, M. A., Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge; On the Influence of Light upon Protoplasm. By Arthur Downes, M. D., and Thomas P. Blunt, M. A. Oxon; Note on the Influence exercised by Light on Organic Infusions. By John Tyndall, D. C. L., F. R. S., Professor of Natural Philosophy in the Royal Institution; On the Structure and Development of the Skull in the Lacertilia, Part I. On the Skull of the Common Lizards (Lacerta agilis, L. viridis, and Zoatoca vivipara). By W. K. Parker, F. R. S.
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