PEOCEEDINGS OF 

 THE EOYAL SOCIETY. 



VOL. LXVI. 



No. 430. 



Meeting of April 5, 1900 



CONTENTS. 



•AGE 

 323 



List of Papers read . 323 



Mathematical Contributions to the Theory of Evolution. VII, — On the 

 Application of certain Formulas in the Theory of Correlation to the 

 Inheritance of Characters not capable of Quantitative Measurement. 

 Bj Kael Pearson, F.R.S., with the assistance of Miss Alice Lee, 

 D.Sc, University College, London 324 



On the Retinal Currents of the Frog's Eye, excited by Light and excited 



Electrically. By Augustus D. Wallee, M.D., F.R.S. . . . 327 



Observations on the Effect of Desiccation of Albumin upon its Coagulability. 

 By J. Bretland Farmer, M.A., Royal College of Science, London. 

 Communicated by Dr. H. T. Brown, F.R.S 329 



On the Weight of Hydrogen desiccated by Liquid Air. By Lord Ratleigh, 



The Kinetic Theory of Planetary Atmospheres. By G-. H. Betast, Sc.D., 



F.R.S . 335 



Combinatorial Analysis. — The Foundations of a New Theory. By Major 



P. A. MacMahon, R.A., D.Sc, F.R.S. 336 



tibei' Reiheu auf der Convergenzgrenze. Von Emanuel Laskee, Dr. Philos. 



Communicated by Major MacMahon, F.R.S .337 



Further Note on the Influence of Temperature of Liquid Air on Bacteria. 

 By Allan Maceadyen, M.D., and S. Rowland, M.A. Communicated 

 by Lord Listee, P.R.S 339 



Report of the Kew Observatory Committee for the Year ending December 31, 



F.R.S, 



1899. 



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Ju^'E 9, 1900. 



