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CONTENTS. 
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VOL. 217. 
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I. On the Instability of the Pear-shaped Figure of Equilibrium oj a Rotating Mass 
of Liquid. By J. H. Jeans, M.A., F.R.S. . page 1 
II. On Periodic Disturbance of Level Arising from the Load of Neighbouring 
Oceanic Tides. By K, Terazawa, Ri-Gakushi of the Imperial University 
of Tokyo. Communicated by Sir Joseph Larmor, F.R.S . 35 
III. The Genesis of Pleochroic Haloes. By J. Joly, Sc.D., F.R.S., Professor of 
Geology and Mineralogy in the University of Dublin . 51 
IV. Seventh Memoir on the Partition of Numbers. A Detailed Study of the 
Enumeration of the Partitions of Multipartite Numbers. By Major P. A. 
MacMahon, R.A., D.Sc., Sc.D., F.R.S. . 81 
V. On the Kinetic Theo7'y of a Gas. Part II.—A Composite Monatomic Gas: 
Diffusion, Viscosity, and Thermal Conduction. By S. Chapman, M.A., 
D.Sc., Fellow and Lecturer of Trinity College, Cambridge. Communicated 
by Sir Joseph Larmor, F.R.S. . 115 
VI. Monoclinic Double Selenates of the Nickel Group. By A. E. H. Tutton, D.Sc., 
M.A., F.R.S. . 199 
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