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13. On the Size of the Particles in Deep-sea Deposits. By Dr Sven Oden, Uppsala. 
Communicated by The General Secretary. (With Three Plates.) Issued 
separately January 16, 1917, ....... 219 
14. Mathematical Note on the Fall of Small Particles through Liquid Columns. By 
Professor C. G. Knott. Issued separately January 16, 1917, . . 237 
15. Preliminary Communication on the Effects of Thyroid-Feeding upon the 
Pancreas. By Dr M. Kojima, Staff-Surgeon Imperial Japanese Navy. Com- 
municated by Sir Edward A. Schafer, F.R.S. (With Two Plates.) Issued 
separately January 19, 1917, . . . . . . . 240 
16. On the Theory of Continued-Fractions. By Professor E. T. Whittaker. Issued 
separately January 19, 1917, . . . . . . . 243 
17. The Ochil Earthquakes of the Years 1900-1914. By Charles Davison, Sc.D., F.G.S. 
Communicated by The General Secretary, Issued separately February 6, 
1917, .......... 256 
18. The Trachytic and Allied Rocks of the Clyde Carboniferous Lava-Plateaus. By 
G. W. Tyrrell, A.R.C.Sc., F.G.S. , Lecturer in Mineralogy and Petrology, 
University of Glasgow. Communicated by Dr Horne, F.R.S. Issued separately 
February 6, 1917, . . . . . . . .288 
19. On Systems of Partial Differential Equations and the Transformation of Spherical 
Harmonics. By H. Bateman, Ph.D. Communicated by Professor Whittaker. 
Issued separately March 1, 1917, ...... 300 
20. The Structure and Life-History of Bracon sp. : a Study in Parasitism. By James 
W. Munro, B.Sc. (Agr.) and B.Sc. (For.), Board of Agriculture Research 
Scholar. Communicated by Dr R. Stewart MacDougall. (With Two Plates.) 
Issued separately March 1, 1917, . . . . . . 313 
Obituary Notices : — 
Professor G wynne- Vaughan. By Professor F. O. Bower, F.R.S., . . 334 
Sir William Turner, K.C.B., D.L., M.B., F.R.C.S.L., F.R.C.S.E., LL.D., D.Sc., 
F.R.S., Principal and Vice-Chancellor, University of Edinburgh, Honorary 
Burgess of the City of Edinburgh. By Sir James A. Russell. (With One 
Plate), .......... 340 
Appendix— 
Laws of the Society, . . . . . . . .375 
The Keith, Makdougall-Brisbane, Neill, and Gunning Victoria Jubilee Prizes, . 382 
Awards of the Keith, Makdougall-Brisbane, Neill, and Gunning Victoria Jubilee 
Prizes, .......... 385 
Proceedings of the Statutory General Meeting, October 1915, . . . 390 
Proceedings of the Ordinary Meetings, Session 1915-1916, . . . 392 
Proceedings of the Statutory General Meeting, October 1916, . 398 
Accounts of the Society, Session 1915-1916, ..... 399 
The Council of the Society at October 1916, . . . . 405 
