PROCEEDINGS OF 

 THE ROYAL SOCIETY. 



VOL. LXV. 



No. 415. 



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CONTENTS. 



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Meeting of April 27, 1899, and List of Papers read 



114 



On the Luminosity of the Rare Earths when heated in Vacuo by means of 

 Cathode Rays. By A. A. Campbell Swinton. Communicated by Lord 



On the Electrical Conductivity of Flames containing Salt Vapours. By 

 Harold A. Wilson, B.Sc. (Lond. and Tic), 1851 Exhibition Scholar. 

 Communicated by Professor J. J. Thomson, F.R.S 120 



On a Quartz-thread Gravity Balance. By Richard Threlpall, lately Pro- 

 fessor of Physics in the University of Sydney, and James Arthur 

 Pollock, lately Demonstrator of Physics in the University of Sydney. 

 Communicated by Professor J. J. Thomson, F.R.S 123 



Data for the Problem of Evolution in Man. I. A First Study of the Varia- 

 bility and Correlation of the Hand. By Miss M. A. Whitelby, B.Sc, 

 and Karl Pearson, F.R.S 126 



Meeting of May 4, 1899, List of Candidates recommended for Election, and 



List of Papers read 152 



Impact with a Liquid Surface, studied by the aid of Instantaneous Photo- 

 graphy. Paper II. By A. M. Worthington, M.A., F.R.S., and 

 R. S. Cole, M.A 153 



An Observation on Inheritance in Parthenogenesis. By Ernest Warren, 

 D.Sc, University College, London. Communicated by Professor W. F. R. 



Kelvin, F.R.S. 



115 



Weldon, F.R.S 



154 



Onygena equina (Willd.) : a Horn-destroying Fungus. By H. Marshall 

 Ward, D.Sc, F.R.S., Professor of Botany in the University of Cam- 

 bridge • 



158 



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