Indices of the Cambridge Philosophical Society - 1821-1971
The Transactions of the Cambridge Philosophical Society were published between 1822 and 1928. Parts appeared at irregular intervals and the volumes contain varying numbers of parts. The Proceedings of the Cambridge Philosophical Society first appeared in 1844, and the early volumes, like the Transactions, had varying numbers of parts issued at irregular intervals. From 1928 the Proceedings began to appear at regular quarterly intervals, and from Volume 24 each volume (with the exceptions of Volumes 32 and 39 to 42) has four parts issued in a single year. The dates of issue of the Transactions and of the Proceedings are given in the tables on the following pages. The early volumes of the Proceedings consist, for the most part, of accounts of meetings and brief summaries of papers read to the Society, many of which were afterwards printed in full in the Transactions. In this index the references to the Proceedings are given first with the volume number in Arabic numerals, and the reference to the Transactions follows, with the volume number in Roman numerals. When the Proceedings mentions only the title of a paper, but gives no summary, no entry has been included, unless the paper also appears in the Transactions, when only the Transactions reference is given.
An index to Volumes 1 to 12 of the Transactions was published with Volume 13. The index now published is the first cumulative index of the Proceedings of the Cambridge Philosophical Society. Its preparation and publication have been made possible by the bequest made to the Society by the late Dr F. W. Aston. The Society is most grateful to all those who have assisted in compiling this index, and in particular to its librarian, Miss J. E. Larter.
Publication of this Index has been made possible by the bequest of the late Dr F. W. Aston, (1 September 1877 – 20 November 1945).
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Volcanoes are hazardous and beautiful manifestations of the dynamic processes that have shaped our planet. Volcanoes impact our environment in numerous ways. Over geological time volcanic activity has resurfaced the Earth and provided life with a terrestrial substrate upon which to proliferate. Volcanic degassing has shaped our secondary atmosphere and as part of the process of plate tectonics, maintained just the right amount of water and carbon dioxide at the surface to produce a stable and equitable climate. Magma in the subsurface in volcanic environments today gives Society geothermal energy. The fluids degassed from magmas in the plumbing systems of volcanoes give rise to hydrothermal ore deposits, the source of much of our copper and other metals, critical to the energy transition. In this lecture I will describe the nature and importance of magma degassing for our atmosphere and oceans, as a source of both pollutants and nutrients, and in the formation of mineral deposits. I will describe my own research in carrying out measurements of volcanic gases (using a range of spectroscopic methods, from the ground and using drones), and analysis of erupted lavas, to understand the chemistry and physics of volcanic outgassing and its role in sustaining our planetary environment.
One of the many outstanding achievements of G I Taylor was the discovery of relatively simple statistical laws that apply to highly complex turbulent flows. The emergence of simple laws from complexity is well known in other branches of physics, for example the emergence of the laws of heat conduction from molecular dynamics. Complexity can also arise at large scales, and the structural vibration of an aircraft or a car can be a surprisingly difficult phenomenon to analyse, partly because millions of degrees of freedom may be involved, and partly because the vibration can be extremely sensitive to small changes or imperfections in the system. In this talk it is shown that the prediction of vibration levels can be much simplified by the derivation and exploitation of emergent laws, analogous to some extent to the heat conduction equations, but with an added statistical aspect, as in turbulent flow. The emergent laws are discussed and their application to the design of aerospace, marine, and automotive structures is described. As an aside it will be shown that the same emergent theory can be applied to a range of problems involving electromagnetic fields.
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