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[September 22, 1892 



and " Epidemic Influenza : a Study in Comparative Statistics," 

 by F. A. Dixey, D. M. 



The Cambridge University Press promises -.—"The Col- 

 lected Mathematical Papers of Prof. Arthur Cayley, Sc.D., 

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 Venant to Lord Kelvin (Sir William Thomson) ; " A Treatise 

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