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between experiment and the 56'25, 25 and 6"25 of theory was 

 observed, in the 1000 the number of times the distance exceeded 25, 

 50 and 75, vaiying fi-om 55 to 63, from 16 to 33 and from 2 to 10 

 respectively. 



Taking 1000 consecutive events a singularly close agreement 

 between experiment and the 562.5, 250 and 62.5 of theory was 

 obsei-ved ; there being by experiment 577, 253 and 66 occasions on 

 which the distance between the points exceeded 25, 50 and 75 

 lespectively. 



The conclusion so far as these problems were concerned was that 

 the hypothesis on which the theoretical solutions were based was 

 correct ; and this hypothesis was that the rod and the points located 

 themselves by chance, that all positions were equally likely, and that 

 in a great number of throws the rod and the points would be equably 

 distributed in various positions. Of course the objects had not 

 jocated themselves by chance ; their every movement was guided 

 and controlled by fixed and definite laws — gravity, resistance of air, 

 friction, elasticity, etc., but no one cause operated to constrain them 

 into constancy of position. We might be disposed to think that 

 where unifonn determining cause was absent— where, as we might 

 express it, chance I'eigned ; there would be, when a large number of 

 events occurred, an utter unevenness of distribution, accumulating in 

 heaps at one place and leaving another quite blank. Such, however, 

 had not occurred in these experiments ; and with respect to them 

 the assertion could be made that, where complex forces are acting so 

 that determining cause is absent, what might be termed a law of 

 equable distribution held. 



Mr. John Notman, Queen's Printer for Ontario, read a 

 paper on "The Manufacture of Paper." 



Men have in all ages been proud of their own achievements, 

 while labor, a certain amount of self-conceit and a desire to seek a 

 cquaintance with primitive and past events, form the basis of pro- 

 gress and promote civilization. 



Men who have recorded their own thoughts and actions, or those 

 of others, are the ones who have exerted the gieatest influence for 

 good, or for evil, in all ages. 

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