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XVI. The Weather, Influenza, and Disease : from the Records of the Edin- 

 burgh Royal Infirmary for Fifty Years. By A. Lockhart Gil- 

 lespie, M.D., F.R.C.P.E. ; Memb. Scot. Met. Soc. ; Medical 

 Registrar, Edinburgh Royal Infirmary. (With Six Plates), . 579 



XVII. The ?' of Dioph mitus. By Prof. D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson, . 607 



XVIII. On Torsional Oscillations of Wires. By Dr W. Peddie. (With Two 



Plates), ........ 611 



[7 XIX. On the Cranial Ner ves of Chimaera Monstrosa (Linn. 1754): with a 

 Discussion of the lateral Line System, and of the Morphology of the 

 Chorda tympani. By Frank J. Cole, Demonstrator and Assistant 

 Lecturer of Zoology, University College, Liverpool. Communicated 

 by Professor Ewart, M;D., F.R.S. (With Two Plates), . . 631 



XX. The Meteorology of Edinburgh. By Robert Cockburn Mossman, 



F.R.S.E., F.R.Met.Soc. (With Three Plates), . . .681 



XXI. On the Curves of Magnetisation for Films of Iron, Cobalt, and Nickel. 



By Dr J. C. Bkattie. (With a Plate), .... 757 



PART IV. (1896.) 



XXII. Observations on the Phonograph. By John G. M'Kendrick, M.D., 

 Professor of Physiology in the University of Glasgow. (Witb Two 

 Plates), . . . . . . . .765 



XXIII. On the Genus Anaspides and its Affinities with certain Fossil Crustacea. 



By W. T. Calman, B.Sc, University College, Dundee. Communi- 

 cated by Professor D'Arcy W. Thompson. (With Two Plates), . 787 



XXIV. On the ^-discriminant of a Differential Equation of the First Order, 



and on Certain Points in the General Theory of Envelopes connected 

 therewith. By Professor Chrystal, . . . .803 



