VOL. LXII. 



PEOCEEDINGS U5\%,°*>i//o 

 THE ROTAL SOCIET^a/* 



CONTENTS. 



Meeting of February 17, 1898, and List of Papers read 



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

 Ancestral Heredity. By Kabl Peaeson, M.A., F.B.S., University 



Mathematical Contributions to the Theory of Evolution. On the Inheritance 

 of the Cephalic Index. By Miss Cicely D. Fawcett, B.Sc, and Kael 

 Peaeson, M.A., F.R.S., University College, London .... 413 



Comparison of Oxygen with the Extra Lines in the Spectra of the Helium 

 Stars, $ Crucis, &c. ; also Summary of the Spectra of Southern Stars to 

 the 3| Magnitude and their Distribution. By Feank McClean, F.E.S. 



College, London 



386 



(Plate 6) 



417 



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March 16, 1898. 



