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PROCEEDINGS OF 

 THE ROYAL SOCIETY. 



vol. lxii. No. 381. 



CONTENTS. 



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Meeting of November 18, 1897, and President's Account of Presentation of 



Address to the Queen . . 153 



List of Papers received and published since the last meeting . . . .154 



List of Papers read . . . . .155 



Account of a Comparison of Magnetic Instruments at Kew Observatory. By 



C. Cheee, Sc.D., F.E.S., Superintendent 155 



Note on the Influence of very Low Temperatures on the Germinative Power 



of Seeds. By Hoeace T. Brown, F.R.S., and F. Escombe, B.Sc, F.L S. 160 



On the Structure and Affinities of Fossil Plants from the Palaeozoic Rocks. 

 II. On Spencerites, a new Genus of Lycopodiaceous Cones from the Coal- 

 measures, founded on the Lepidodendron Spenceri of "Williamson. By 

 D. H. Scott, M.A., Ph.D., F.R.S., Hon. Keeper of the Jodrell Labora- 

 tory, Royal Gardens, Kew 166 



Meeting of November 25, 1897, with List of Officers and Council and List of 



Papers read 169 



On the Geometrical Treatment of the ' Normal Curve ' of Statistics, with 

 especial Reference to Correlation and to the Theory of Error. By W. F. 

 Sheppabd, M. A., LL.M., formerly Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge. 

 Communicated by Professor A. R. Foesyth, F.R.S 170 



Mathematical Contributions to the Theory of Evolution. IV. On the 

 Probable Errors of Frequency Constants and on the Influence of Random 

 Selection on Variation and Correlation. By Kael Peaeson, M.A,, F.R.S., 

 and L. N. G. Filon, B.A., University College, London .... 173 



Further Observations upon the Comparative Physiology of the Suprarenal 

 Capsules. By Swale Vincent, M.B. (Lond.), British Medical Associa- 

 tion Scholar. Communicated by E. A. Schapee, F.R.S. . . . 176 



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