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TRANSACTIONS 



OF THE 



EOYAL SOCIETY OF EDINBUKGH. 



VOL. XXXVIII. PART I.— FOR THE SESSION 1894-95. 



CONTENTS. 



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 I. The Clyde Sea Area. By Hugh Kobert Mill, D.Sc, F.R.S.E. (Plates T.-XXXII.) 



Part ni. — Distribution of Temperature, ...... 1 



(Issued separately, November \Wi, 1894.) 



II. A Fundamental Theorem regarding the Equivalence of Systems of Ordinary Linear Differ- 

 ential Equations, and its Application to the Determination of the Order and the 

 Systematic Solution of a Determinate System of such Equations. By George 

 Chrystal M.A. LL.D., Professor of Mathematics in the University of Edinburgh, . 163 

 (Issued separately, May 5th, 1895.) 



III. On Bird and Beast in Ancient Symbolism. By Professor D'Arcy Wentworth 



Thompson, Jr., . . . . . . . . .179 



(Issued separately, August 3rd, 1895.) 



IV. Two Olens and tht Agency of Glaciation. By His Grace The Duke of Argyll, 



K.G., K.T. (V 'th a Map), . 193 



(Issued separately, September '20th, 1895.) 



V. On the Fossil Flora the Yorkshire Coal Field. (First Paper.) By Robert Kidston, 



F.R.S.E., F.G.S. (Plates I.-III.), 203 



■Issued separately, February 5th, 1896.) 



VI. Experiments on the Transcirse Effect and on some Related Actions in Bismuth. By 



J. C. Beattie. (With a Plate), . . . . . . .225 



(Issued separately, October 10th, 1895.) 



VII. On the Relation between the Variation of Resistance in Bismuth in a Steady Magnetic Field 



and the Rotatory or Transverse Effect. By J. C. Beattie. (With a Plate), . . 241 



(Issued separately, December 7th, 1895.) 



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