6 FEB. 9 7 



TBANSACTIONS 



OF THE 



KOYAL SOCIETY OF EDINBUBGH. 



VOL. XXXVIII. PART III.— FOR THE SESSION 1895-96. 



CONTENTS. 



Page 

 XI I. The Development of the Mulleriau Duct of Amphibians. By Gregg Wilson, M.A., 



B.Sc. Edin. (With Two Plates), ....... 509 



(Issued separately, 2nd February 1896.) 



XIII. The Strains produced in Iron, Steel, and Nickel Tubes in the Magnetic Field. Part I. 



By Professor C. G. Knott, D.Sc., P.K.S.E. (With Six Plates), . . . 527 



(Issued separately, list April 1896.) 



XIV. A Revised Description of the Dorsal Interosseous Muscles of the Human Hand, with 



Suggestions for a New Nomenclature of the Palmar Interosseous Muscles, and some 

 Observations on the Corresponding Muscles in the Anthropoid, Apes. By David 

 Hepburn, M.D., CM., F.R.S.E., Lecturer on Regional Anatomy in the University 

 of Edinburgh. (With a Plate), ....... 557 



(Issued separately, 12th June 1896.) 



XV. The Temperature Variation of the Magnetic Permeability of Magnetite. By Edwin II. 

 Barton, D.Sc. (Lond.), F.R.S.E., A.I.E.E., Senior Lecturer and Demonstrator in 

 Physics at University College, Nottingham. (With Three Plates), . . ■ 567 



(Issued separately, 17th July 1896.) 



XVI. The Weather, Influenza, and Disease: from the Records of the Edinburgh Royal 

 Infirmary for Fifty Years.. By A. Lockhart GiLLEsriE, M.D., F.R.C.P.E. ; Memb. 

 Scot. Met. Soc. ; Medical Registrar, Edinburgh Royal Infirmary. (With Six Plates), 579 

 (Issued separately, 11th September 189G.) 



XVII. The s' of Dibphantus. By Prof. D'Arcy Wentwortii Thompson, . . . 607 



(Issued separately, 10th September 1896.) 

 XV III. On Torsional Oscillations of Wires. By Dr W. Peddie. (With Two Plates), . 611 



(Issued separately, 12th August 1896.) 



XIX. On the Cranial Nerves of Chimera 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, Liver- 

 pool. (With Two Plates), . . . . . . . 031 



(Issued separately, 1st September 1896.) 



XX. The Meteorology of Edinburgh. By Robbrt Cockburn Mossman, F.R.S.E., F.R. Met. 



Soc. (With Three Plates), . , . . . . .681 



(Issued separately, 12th October 1896.) 

 XXI. On the Curves of Magnetisation for Films of Iron, Cobalt, and Nickel. By Dr J. C. 



Beaxtie. (With a Plate), . . . . . . .757 



(Issued separately, lWi October 1896.) 



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