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Chairman's Opening Address, Session 1896–97

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 September 2014

John Gray McKendrick
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Extract

The Council has done me the honour of requesting me to open the 114th Session of the Society, and to offer some remarks that may be deemed appropriate to the occasion.

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Proceedings of the Royal Society of Edinburgh , Volume 21 , 1897 , pp. 170 - 182
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Copyright © Royal Society of Edinburgh 1897

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References

page 170 note * For these details, and also for the notices of deceased Fellows, I am indebted to the kindness of the Librarian, Mr James Gordon.

page 171 note * Thomson, W., “On Carnot's Theory of the Motive Power of Heat,” Trans. Hoy. Soc. Edin., 1849Google Scholar; “On the Dynamical Theory of Heat,” Trans. Roy. Soc. Edin., 1851.

page 171 note † Thomson, W., “On a Universal Tendency in Nature to the Dissipation of Mechanical Energy,” Proc. Roy. Soc. Edin., 1852Google Scholar.

page 171 note ‡ Thomson, W., “On Vortex Atoms,” Proc. Roy. Soc. Edin., 1867Google Scholar.