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TRANSACTIONS 



OF THE 



ROYAL SOCIETY OF EDINBURGH. 



VOL. XL. PART I.— FOR THE SESSION 1900-1. 



CONTENTS. 



I. A Contribution to the Life-Histories of the God and Whiting. By Arthur T. Masterman, 

 M.A., D.Sc. (Lond. and St. And.), F.R.S.E. (With Three Plates), . 

 (Issued separately, 6th July 1900.) 



II. Two Historical Fallacies : Heather Beer and Uisge Beithe. By Robert C. Maclagan, 

 F.R.S.E., .......... 



(Issued separately, 23rd August 1900.) 



III. On the Eliminant of a Set of General Ternary Quadrics. (Part II.) By Thomas Muir, 



LL.D., 



(Issued separately, 23rd August 1900.) 



IV. On the Convection of Heat by Air Currents. By Prof. A. Crichton Mitchell. (With 

 a Plate), .......... 



(Issued separately 10th November 1900.) 



V. A Development of a Pfajfian having a Vacant Minor. By Thomas Muir, LL.D., 



(Issued separately 15th November 1900.) 



VI. Contributions to the Cranioloyy of the People of the Empire of India. Part II. The 

 Aborigines of ChMa NdgpUr and of the Central Provinces, the People of Orissa, the 

 Veddalis and Negritos. By Prof. Sir Wm. Turner, K.C.B., D.C.L., F.R.S. (With 

 Four Plates), ......... 



(Issued separately, 8th March 1901.) 



VII. Notes on the Dynamics of Cyclones and Anticyclones. By John Aitken, F.R.S. (With 

 a Plate), .......... 



(Issued separately, 6th April 1901.) 



VIII. Observations of the Edinburgh Rock Thermometers. By Thomas Heath, B.A., Assistant 

 Astronomer, Royal Observatory, Edinburgh. (With Four Plates), . 

 (Issued separately 19th June 1901.) 



IX. Some Identities connected with Alternants, and with Elliptic Functions. By Thomas 

 Muir, LL.D., . . . 



(Issued separately llflh June 1901.) 



X. The Hessian of a General Determinant. By Thomas Muik, LL.D., 



(Issued separately 4th June 1901.) 



XL The Differentiation of a Continuant. By Thomas Muir, LL.D., . 



(Issued separately 26th June 1901.) 



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