CONTENTS. 



PAET I. (1900-01.) 



NUMBER PAGE 



I. A Contribution to the Life- Histories of the Cod and Whiting. By 

 Arthur T. Masterman, M.A., D.Sc. (Loncl. and St And.), F.R.S.E. 

 (With Three Plates), ....... 1 



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



C. Maclaoan, F.R.S.E., . . . . . .15 



III. On the Eliminant of a Set of General 'Ternary Qua dries. (Part II.) 



By Thomas Mtjir, LL.D., . . . . . .23 



IV. On the Convection of Heat by Air Currents. By Professor A. Crichton 



Mitchell. (With a Plate), ...... 39 



V. A Development of a Pfoffian having a Vacant Minor. By Thomas 



Muir, LL.D., ........ 49 



VI. Contributions to the Craniology of the People of the Empire of India. 

 (Part II.) The Aborigines of Chuta Ndgptir and of the Central 

 Provinces, the People of Orissa, the Veddahs and Negritos. By 

 Professor Sir Wm. Turner, K.C.B., D.C.L., F.R.S. (With Four 

 Plates), ........ 59 



VII. Notes on the Dynamics of Cyclones and Anticyclones. By John Aitken, 



F.R.S. (With a Plate), . . . . . .131 



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

 B.A., Assistant Astronomer, Royal Observatory, Edinburgh. (With 

 Four Plates), ....... 



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

 By Thomas Muir, LL.D., . 



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



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



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