Proceedings of the Cambridge Philosophical Society: Mathematical and physical sciences, Volum 12

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Cambridge Philosophical Society, 1904
 

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Pàgina 248 - BA, King's College. 3. On the Alimentary Canal of the Mosquito. By AE SHIPLEY, MA, Christ's College. 4. On Integral Functions. (Second paper.) By EW BARNES, MA, Trinity College. 5. On the theory of shadows. By HM MACDONALD, MA, Clare College. February 2nd, 1903. In the Cavendish Laboratory. DR BAKER, PRESIDENT, IN THE CHAIR. The President proposed from the Chair, " That the Cambridge Philosophical Society desires to express its sense of the great loss sustained by the University and the Society in...
Pàgina 274 - The proportion of <^s is highest of all in a number of births taken from Burkes Peerage, where the nutrition may be supposed to be of the best. From this the alternative conclusions may be drawn : that either more favourable conditions of nutrition (1) may result in a large proportion of £ births, or (2) may have no effect on the proportion of the sexes, or (3) may even result in a relative preponderance of ? births, but that in the last two cases the effect is masked by other factors which affect...
Pàgina 250 - PRESIDENT, IN THE CHAIR. The following was elected a Fellow of the Society : AL Bennett, BA, Christ's College.
Pàgina 517 - President, in the chair. The following were elected Fellows of the Society : — Mr.
Pàgina 35 - Glass variously at its edges to make the Rings move nimbly from one place to another, a little white Spot would immediately follow the center of them, which upon creeping in of the ambient Water into that place would presently vanish.
Pàgina 218 - XXVII., on functions possessing an algebraic addition theorem ; the present point of view emphasizes the existence of and gives the algebraic definition of the integral function from which the meromorphic functions are derivable. Comparing M. Painleve"s results in regard to the new transcendents found by him satisfying ordinary differential equations of the second order (Acta Math, xxv.) one is tempted to ponder on the existence of a theory including these transcendents and the hyperelliptic functions...
Pàgina 153 - May 1903.] The object of this note was to call attention to various possibilities attainable by a modification of the Mendelian method. In the ordinary method the constitution of the gametes in the first cross (F¡) is tested by breeding such individuals inter se or with a pure recessive.
Pàgina 153 - ... 1, it is not possible to tell whether such departure is due to change in relative numbers of dominant and recessive gametes, to imperfect segregation of characters, or to change in dominance. This question can in part be answered by a method which consists in crossing F...
Pàgina 209 - ... and diluted solutions of the chlorides of Didymium and Erbium are precisely similar to those observed in diluted solutions of the nitrates of these earths.
Pàgina 260 - Rowntree" concludes that : — (1) The diet of the servant-keeping class is, upon the whole, in excess of that required for the maintenance of health. (2) It is probably safe to assume that, in the case of average families of the artisan class, the food supply is adequate, although it is clear that in many cases it can only continue so by abstention from wasteful expenditure upon drink, &c.

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