TRANSACTIONS 



OF THE 



ROYAL SOCIETY OF EDINBURGH. 



VOLUME XL. PART III.— FOR THE SESSION 1902-3. 



CONTENTS. 



Page 



XX [. The Meteorology of Edinburgh. By R. C. Mobsman, F.R.S.E., F.R. Met. Soc. (With a 



Plate), .......... 469 



{Issued separately 5th September 1902.) 



XXII. Vanishing Aggregates of Secondary Minors of a Persy mmetric Determinant. By Thos. 



Mum, LL.D., ......... 511 



(Issued separately 26th September 1902.) 



XXIII. Change of Electric, Resistance of Nickel due to Magnetisation at Different Temperatures 



By Professor C. G. Knott, D.Sc., . . . . . . .535 



(Issued separately 31st December 1902.) 



XXIV. A Contribution to the Craniology of the People of Scotland. Part I., Anatomical. By 



Professor Sir Wilix\m Turner, K.C.B., D.C.L., PR.S. (With Five Plates), . . 547 



(Issued separately lOfh February 1908.) 



XXV. The Generating Function of the Reciprocal of a Determinant. By Thomas Muir, LL.D., 615 



(Issued separately (Jth March 1903.) 



XXVI. Magnetic Shielding in Hollow Iron Cylinders and Superposed, Inductions in Iron,. By 



Jambs Russell, F.R S.E. (With Six Plates), . . .631 



(Issued separately 21st April 1903.) 



XXVII. On the Effect of Temperature on the hiking of Salmon with Rod and Fly in the Rioer 

 Spey at Gordon Castle in the Autumns of 1898, 1899, 1900, and 1901. By George 

 Muirhead, Commissioner for His Grace the Duke of Richmond and Gordon, K.G. 

 (With Four Plates), ......... 683 



(Issued separately 12th September l'JUd.) 



XXVIII. On the Distribution of Fossil Fish-remains in the Carboniferous Rocks of the Edinburgh 

 District. By Ramsay H. Traquair, M.D., LL.D., F.R.S., Keeper of the Natural 

 History Collection in the Museum of Science and Art, Edinburgh. (With Two Plates), 687 

 (Issued separately 16th, October 1903.) 



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