Transactions of the Royal Society of South Africa, Volume 4, Issue 1 (1914)

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MINUTES OF PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY OF SOUTH AFRICA
Pages: i-xviii
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LIST OF OFFICERS, FELLOWS, AND MEMBERS. December 31, 1914. MEMBERS OF COUNCIL
Pages: xix-xxiii
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ADDITIONS TO THE LIBRARY DURING 1913
Pages: xxiv-xl
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SOME NEW SOUTH AFRICAN MOSSES
Horace A. Wager
Pages: 1-8
Published online: 26 Mar 2010
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FURTHER MAGNETIC OBSERVATIONS IN SOUTH AFRICA
J. C. Beattie
Pages: 9-56
Published online: 26 Mar 2010
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TRUE ISOGONICS, ISOCLINALS, AND LINES OF HORIZONTAL INTENSITY FOR THE NORTH-WESTERN PARTS OF THE UNION OF SOUTH AFRICA AND FOR PART OF GREAT NAMAQUALAND FOR THE EPOCH JULY 1, 1908
J. C. Beattie
Pages: 57-63
Published online: 26 Mar 2010
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NOTE ON SPODUMENE FROM NAMAQUALAND
G. O. ScullyA. R. E. Walker
Pages: 65-67
Published online: 26 Mar 2010
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NOTE ON THE ENTOMOPHILOUS NATURE OF ENCEPHALARTOS.
R. Marloth
Pages: 69-71
Published online: 26 Mar 2010
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ON THE ELECTRICAL CHANGES IN THE HEART: From the Physiological Laboratory of the South African College. Preliminary Note
W. A. Jolly
Pages: 73-74
Published online: 26 Mar 2010
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ON THE DAILY RANGE OF THE ATMOSPHERIC POTENTIAL GRADIENT AT BLOEMFONTEIN, AND THE INFLUENCE OF DUST-STORMS
W. A. Douglas Rudge
Pages: 75-87
Published online: 26 Mar 2010
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A CONTRIBUTION TO OUR KNOWLEDGE OF THE ANATOMY OF CHAMAELEONS
Paul A. MethuenJohn Hewitt
Pages: 89-104
Published online: 26 Mar 2010
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BAROMETRIC VARIABILITY AT KIMBERLEY AND ELSEWHERE
J. R. Sutton
Pages: 105-121
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ON AN EXPERIMENTAL MODIFICATION OF VAN DER WAALS'S EQUATION
John P. Dalton
Pages: 123-136
Published online: 26 Mar 2010
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A NEW MIMICRY PLANT
(Mesembrianthemum lapidiforme, Marl.)
R. Marloth
Pages: 137-138
Published online: 26 Mar 2010
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NOTE ON A THEOREM OF PH. GILBERTS REGARDING THE DIFFERENTIATION OF A SPECIAL JACOBIAN
Thomas Muir
Pages: 139-142
Published online: 26 Mar 2010
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A CURIOUS MOSQUITO
G. A. H. Bedford
Pages: 143-144
Published online: 26 Mar 2010
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THE TRIPLE STELLAR SYSTEM ζ VIRGO AND σ 1757
R. T. A. Innes
Pages: 145-146
Published online: 26 Mar 2010
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PRELIMINARY NOTE ON SOME PHREODRILIDAE FROM THE WELLINGTON MOUNTAINS, SOUTH AFRICA
E. J. Goddard
Page: 147
Published online: 26 Mar 2010
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ON THE SIGNIFICANCE OF THE SOMITIC CONSTITUTION, BODY FORM, AND GENITAL APERTURES IN THE HIRUDINEA, IN REFERENCE TO THE ARTHROPODA
E. J. Goddard
Pages: 148-156
Published online: 26 Mar 2010
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NOTE ON ROSANES' FUNCTIONS RESEMBLING JACOBIANS
Thomas Muir
Pages: 157-161
Published online: 26 Mar 2010
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A NOTE ON THE TEMPERATURES OF THE AIR OBSERVED AT MOCHUDI
J. R. Sutton
Pages: 163-167
Published online: 26 Mar 2010
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ON THE POROSITY OF THE ROCKS OF THE KARROO SYSTEM IN SOUTH AFRICA
Alex L. du Toit
Pages: 169-180
Published online: 26 Mar 2010
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THE SECULAR VARIATION OF THE MAGNETIC ELEMENTS IN SOUTH AFRICA DURING THE PERIOD 1900–1913
J. C. Beattie
Pages: 181-203
Published online: 26 Mar 2010
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PROPERTIES OF PFAFFIANS, WITH THEIR ANALOGUES IN DETERMINANTS
Thomas Muir
Pages: 205-214
Published online: 26 Mar 2010
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A PROOF BY ELEMENTARY METHODS, WITHOUT COMPLEX QUANTITIES, THAT EVERY ALGEBRAIC FUNCTION (WITH REAL COEFFICIENTS) HAS FACTORS OF THE FORM (x2-px+q (p, q, REAL) AND HENCE, EVERY ALGEBRAIC EQUATION WITH COEFFICIENTS REAL OR IMAGINARY, HAS REAL OR IMAGINARY ROOTS EQUAL IN NUMBER TO THE DEGREE OF THE EQUATION
W. N. RoseveareLawrence Crawford
Pages: 215-221
Published online: 26 Mar 2010
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ON MALET'S PROOF THAT EVERY EQUATION HAS ROOTS, REAL OR IMAGINARY, EQUAL IN NUMBER TO ITS DEGREE
W. N. RoseveareLawrence Crawford
Pages: 222-229
Published online: 26 Mar 2010
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PRELIMINARY INVESTIGATION ON THE DETERIORATION OF MAIZE INFECTED WITH DIPLODIA ZEAE, (Schw.) Lev
Paul A. van der BijlI. B. Pole-Evans
Pages: 231-239
Published online: 26 Mar 2010
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THE MORPHOLOGY OF THE TADPOLE OF XENOPUS LAEVIS.
T. F. Dreyer
Pages: 241-258
Published online: 26 Mar 2010
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A MORPHOLOGICAL STUDY OF STRONGYLUS DOUGLASI, COBBOLD
Raffaele IsselH. Bayon
Pages: 259-272
Published online: 26 Mar 2010
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NOTE ON THE PRODUCT OF A SPECIAL N-LINE DETERMINANT BY ITS CENTRAL MINOR OF THE (N-4)TH ORDER
Thomas Muir
Pages: 273-277
Published online: 26 Mar 2010
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ON THE INTERPRETATION OF THE ELECTROCARDIOGRAM
W. A. Jolly
Pages: 279-298
Published online: 26 Mar 2010
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ON THE CRYSTALLOGRAPHY OF ANATASE CRYSTALS FROM THE AURIFEROUS CONGLOMERATE OF THE WIT-WATERSRAND
W. von Bonde
Pages: 299-303
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