PROCEEDINGS OF 

 THE ROYAL SOCIETY. 



VOL. LXXI. 



No. 469. 



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On some Definite Integrals and a New Method of reducing a Function of 

 Spherical Co-ordinates to a Series of Spherical Harmonics. B y Arthur 

 Schuster, F.E.S 97 



Contributions to a Theory of the Capillary Electrometer. II. — On an Im- 

 proved Form of Instrument. By George J. Burch, M.A. Oxon., F.E.S., 

 Lecturer in Physics, University College, Eeading 102 



On the Correlation of the Mental and Physical Characters in Man. Part II. 

 By Alice Lee, D.Sc, Marie A. Lewenz, B.A., and Karl Pearson, 

 F.E.S 106 



Note upon Descending Intrinsic Spinal Tracts in the Mammalian Cord. By 



C. S. Sherrington, M.A., M.D., F.R.S., and E. E. Laslett, M.D. Vict. 115 



The Inter-relationship of Variola and Vaccinia. By S. Monck ton Copeman, 



M.A., M.D. Cantab., F.E.C.P. Communicated by Lord Lister, F.E.S. 121 



On the Similarity of the Short-Period Pressure Variation over Large Areas. 

 By Sir Norman Lockter, K.C.B., F.E.S., and William J. S. Lockyer, 

 M.A., Ph.D., F.E.A.S. (Plates 1, 2) 134 



On the Vibrations and Stability of a Gravitating Planet. By J. H. Jeans, 

 B.A., Isaac Newton Student and Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge. 

 Communicated by Professor Gr. H. Darwin, F.E.S 136 



Experiments on the Effect of Mineral Starvation on the Parasitism of the 

 Uredine Fungus, Puccinia dispersa, on Species of Bromus. By H. 

 Marshall Ward, Sc.D., F.E.S., Professor of Botany in the University 

 of Cambridge 138 



Minutes of Meetings of November 20, 1902, November 27, December 1, 

 (Anniversary) and December 4 



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December 27, 1902. 



