PROCEEDINGS 
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SESSION 1916-17. 
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Part I] 
VOL. XXXVII. 
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CONTENTS. 
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NO. 
I. The Relation of Science to Industries and Education. Opening 
Address by John Horne, LL.D., F.R.S., President, . 
(Issued separately April 2, 1917.) 
II. Notices of Fellows, Honorary and Ordinary, recently deceased. 
By The General Secretary, 
(Issued separately April 2, 1917.) 
III. The Application of Operators to the Solution of the Algebraic 
Equation. By James Littlejohn, M.A. Communicated 
by The General Secretary, 
(Issued separately April 9, 1917.) 
IV. Experiments and Observations on Crustacea : Part I. Immer- 
sion Experiments on Ligia. By John Tait, M.D., D.Sc. 
(From the Laboratory of Physiology, Edinburgh Univer- 
sity.) Communicated by Professor Sir E. A. Schafer, 
(Issued separately April 9, 1917.) 
V. Experiments and Observations on Crustacea: Part II. Moulting 
of Isopods. By John Tait, M.D., D.Sc. (From the Labora- 
tory of Physiology, Edinburgh University.) Communicated 
by Professor Sir E. A. Schafer, v 
(Issued separately April 9, 1917.) 
VI. Experiments and Observations on Crustacea : Part III. Limb- 
Flexures and Limb-Taxis in the Peracarida. By John 
Tait, M.D., D.Sc. (From the Laboratory of Physiology, 
Edinburgh University.) Communicated by Professor Sir 
E. A. Schafer, 
(Issued separately April 9, 1917.) 
VII. On the Adelphic Integral of the Differential Equations of 
Dynamics. By Professor E. T. Whittaker, F.R.S., . 
(Issued separately 1917.) 
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