The volume marked “Logarithms 0” now placed on the Society's table contains, to 28 places, the Logarithms of all numbers up to Ten Thousand. In preparing it, care was taken that each prime should be placed in connection with two distinct sets of other prime numbers, in order that all likelihood of mistake should be avoided. This amounts to the computation of each logarithm by two independent processes. Opposite each prime, reference is made to the page of the record of calculations; and the accompanying volumes marked “Construction, I., II.” contain minutes of each articulate step, so that the genesis of any logarithm may readily be traced and examined.

The Glossopharyngeal.—The glossopharyngeal is usually looked upon as the most typical of the cranial nerves. In Amia, according to Allis, it consists of post- and præ-branchial branches, a visceral or pharyngeal branch, and a dorsal branch which takes part in innervating the lateral line system—supplying by a single twig one of the sense organs of the lateral canal, and in addition a row of pit organs.

In a recent paper, Professor E. T. Whittaker discussed the problem of defining, in a general riemannian space-time, the concept of spatial distance between material particles. It is the object of this paper to give an alternative definition, and to compare the new formula with that of Whittaker.

Given differential expressions τ1; τ2, …, τn— not necessarily symmetric—which are regular on [0,∞), we investigate the relationship between the number of linearly independent L2(0,∞) solutions of the equations τjy = 0 and of the product equation (τ1τ2 … τn)y = 0. Our results extend those recently obtained in [15, 16, 17] for the special case τJ = τ for j = 1, …, n and τ is symmetric. In particular they include the classification results of Everitt and Giertz [4,5,6] for this special case when τ is a real second-order symmetric expression.

We show that the property of linear operators to be in the surjective hull (injective hull) of the ideal of strictly singular (strictly cosingular) operators between Banach spaces is an interpolation property with respect to the real interpolation method with parameters 0 < ủ < 1 and < p < ℞.

Semilinear elliptic partial differential systems of second order with weak coupling are considered in exterior domains Ω ⊆ ℝN, N≧3. Conditions on the nonlinearities are given which guarantee the existence of solutions u with positive components in Ω such that u|∂Ω = 0 and u(x)→0 uniformly as |x|→∞. Asymptotic decay estimates for the solutions are established, including an exponential decay law under extra hypotheses.

Till within recent years the epiphysis cerebri has been generally regarded as a mesial outgrowth from the roof of the thalamencephalon in Vertebrates. The researches of Béraneck (5), Dendy (11), Hill (17), and Locy (19), however, tend to demonstrate the fact that this structure arises in the form of two bilateral outgrowths; while Gaskell (12) has drawn attention to its bilateral nature in Ammocœtes. Some observations which the author made on the development of the epiphysis in Amphibia (8 and 9) were found to agree in the main with those of the above-mentioned workers. The present research was therefore undertaken with the view of corroborating the results which had been obtained in the Amphibia, and it was found that these received support in the case of the chick.

In 1975 K. W. Brodie and W. N. Everitt dealt with integral inequalities of the form

in the two cases T = ℝ, T = ℝ+, and obtained the best possible constants KT(μ) for all μ ε ℝ. The proof was not elementary, but an elementary proof was given in 1977 by E. T. Copson. This note shows how Copson's method can be greatly simplified so as to obtain the results in a more straightforward manner.

A perturbation theorem for symmetric differential expressions is given and applied to even-order expressions. We assume the coefficients p0(t), pn(t) to be eventually positive and to have real powers of t as dominating terms. Then we are able to admit for the absolute values of the other coefficients a rate of growth depending on the growth of both of the coefficients p0, pn in order to obtain minimal deficiency indices.

We study the evaluation of multilinear forms under arbitrary rearrangements of the entries of increasing n-tuples x(1), x(2),…, x(m), and we show that the difference of two such multilinear forms under certain circumstances can be written as a sum of obviously definite forms.

Consider the semilinear evolution equation

(P) u + Au = f(t,u)

where A is a sectorial operator on a Banach space and f is ω-periodic in t. Using a time-discrete Conley index developed in a previous paper [6], we prove a few existence results on bounded solutions of (P) defined for all t ∊ R. More specific results are given for time-periodic scalar parabolic equations.

We define spaces of functions on an interval naturally related to functional differential equations of retarded type in the sense that exponential solutions of such equations form a uniform basis (or Riesz basis) in these spaces. Embedding theorems relating these spaces to the Sobolev spaces are established using a result on Carleson's measure defined on a half plane.

In this paper we consider ‘slowly’ oscillating perturbations of almost periodic Duffing-like systems, i.e. systems of the form ü = u − (a(t) + α(wt))W′(u), t ∈ ℝ, u ∈ ℝN, where W ∈ C2N(ℝN, ℝ) is superquadratic and a and α are positive and almost periodic. By variational methods, we prove that if w > 0 is small enough, then the system admits a multibump dynamics. As a consequence we get that the system ü = u − a(t)W′(u), t ∈ ℝ, u ∈ ℝN, admits multibump solutions whenever a belongs to an open dense subset of the set of positive almost periodic continuous functions.

The shape of radicals of semigroups algebras of commutative and cancellative semigroups is studied. The questions asto when a radical of those algebras is homogeneous and if homogeneous radicals have more regular form are examined.

In this paper, we consider an n-dimensional semilinear equation of parabolic type with a discontinuous source term arising from combustion theory. We prove local existence for a classical solution having a ‘regular’ free boundary. In this regard, the free boundary is a surface through which the discontinuous source term exhibits a switch-like behaviour. We specify conditions under which this solution and its free boundary are global in time; moreover, we exhibit a special domain for which, for t tending to infinity, such a global-in-time solution converges, together with its free boundary, to the solution of the stationary problem and to its regular free boundary (which is proved to exist), respectively. We also prove uniqueness and continuous dependence theorems.

The probability that a neutron leads to a divergent chain reaction in a nuclear reactor is governed by a nonlinear integro-partial-differential equation [1]. A model case of this equation was completely analysed by Pazy and Rabinowitz [2,3]. The purpose of this paper is to extend their results to the general case and to tackle some related topics.

Using the constitutive relationship for a Maxwell body, as an example of a viscoelastic fluid, the equations of motion are derived in the Fourier wavenumber-time domain, and specialised to the case of isotropic turbulence. It is shown that, for grid-generated turbulence, the model predicts increased spectral intensity levels, reduced decay rates and steepening of the spectrum in wavenumber, relative to the Newtonian case. These forms of behaviour have been observed in dilute solutions of drag reducing polymers. The key factor in this is found to be the presence of an ‘elastic’ non-linear term in the equations of motion: this term reverses the normal direction of turbulent energy transfer in wavenumber.

1. In this article the following problem proposed by W. N. Everitt is considered: ‘Under what conditions is it possible to transform a differential equation

which is limit-circle at b1 into an equation of the form

which is limit-point at b2?'

A differential equation of the above type on [a, b) is said to be limit-circle at b iff b is a singular point and every solution . If b is singular and there exists a , then the equation is said to be limit-point at b. See [3] or [4] page 501, also for further details.

Noncoercive variational inequalities with sublinear functionals are considered. Necessary and sufficient conditions are given for the solvability of such problems. These conditions are in the form of compatibility conditions-for the data, as well as the boundedness of the solutions to related problems. These results are used for the obstacle problems for the membrance and the elastic contact in the presence of friction.

We consider a nonlinear eigenvalue problem in the form F(x, λ) = Ax – T(λ)x – R(x, λ) = 0 with F:X × ℝ →Y where X, Y are Banach spaces. We assume that F(0, λ) = 0 for all λ ∈ ℝ and seek bifurcation points; that is, values λ0 ∈ ℝ for which there are solutions to F(x, λ) = 0 with x ≠ 0 in any neighbourhood of (0, λ0). Corresponding to these bifurcation points we obtain global properties of the maximal connected subset of solutions to F(x, λ) = 0 containing (0, λ0).

Generalised topological degree techniques are employed in the proofs of our results without requiring a transversality condition. The operators involved belong to the general class of A-proper mappings which include compact and k-ball contractive perturbations of the identity operator, accretive mappings, and many more.