Fourth Series. Vol. 9 : No. 3. 



MEMOIRS AND PROCEEDINGS 



OF 



THE MANCHESTER 

 LITERARY & PHILOSOPHICAL 



SOCIETY. 



1894-95. 



CONTENTS. 



Proceedings - - - - - - - - - * - pp. 108, 137 



Microscopical and Natural History Section - - - - pp. 118, 133 



Memoirs : — 



On the Evidence afforded by Bode's Law of a permanent 

 Contraction of the Radii Vectores of the Planetary Orbits. 

 By Henry Wilde, F.R.S. p. 95 



On Kaloxylon Hookeri, Will., and Lyginodendron Oldhamium, 

 Will. By Thomas Hick, B.A., B.Sc, A.L.S., Assistant 

 Lecturer in Botany, Owens College. Communicated by 

 F. E. Weiss, B.Sc, Professor of Botany at the Owens 

 College - - - - - - - - - - - p. 109 



A Sketch of the Limitations which are enforced upon the 

 Mathematical Forms of the expressions for Physical 

 Quantities in a Continuous Medium in consequence of 

 the necessity for their Permanence of Form. By R. F. 

 Gwyther, M.A. - p. 119 





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