Papers read to the Society, December 16, 1897

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I. “On a Method of determining the Reactions at the Points of Support of Continuous Beams.” By George Wilson, M.Sc., Demonstrator in Engineering in the Whitworth Laboratory of the Owens College, Manchester. Communicated by Professor Osborne Reynolds, F. R. S. II. “The Comparative Chemistry of the Suprarenal Capsules.” By B. Moore, M.A., Sharpey Research Scholar and Assistant in Physiology, University College, London, and Swale Vincent, M.B. (Lond.), British Medical Association Research Scholar. Communicated by Professor Schafer, F. R. S. III. “Memoir on the Integration of Partial Differential Equations of the Second Order in Three Independent Variables, when an Intermediary Integral does not exist in general.” By A. R. Forsyth, F. R. S., Sadlerian Professor in the University of Cambridge. IV. “On the Biology of Stereum hirsutum , Fr. By H. Marshall Ward, D.Sc., F. R. S., Professor of Botany in the University of Cambridge. V. “An Examination into the Registered Speeds of American Trotting Horses, with Remarks on their value as Hereditary Data.” By Francis Galton, D.C.L., F. R. S. VI. “On the Thermal Conductivities of Single and Mixed Solids and Liquids, and their Variation with Temperature.” By Charles H. Lees, D .Sc., Assistant Lecturer in Physics in the Owens College. Communicated by Professor Schuster, F. R. S. VII. “Cloudiness: Note on a Hovel Case of Frequency.” By Karl Pearson, M.A., F. R. S., University College, London.