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The meaning of the footnote on p. 162 is somewhat ambiguous and the statement comprised in it is not true for all values of n, the number of differences in N.F.T. of which the significance of the mean is tested.The statement that, by the use of a certain approximate distribution, significance of an observation is underestimated means that the estimated value of P in the neighbourhood of the significance level is greater than the true value. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Some time ago I was asked by Mr. G. R. Martyn, of the firm of Martyn's & Gane, if I could identify an old document, which had been found in cleaning out a room in his offices. The document was sent to me and proved to be the depositions relating to the sea-banks at Terrington. I asked Mr. Martyn if he had any more such documents and, as a result, a fairly large collection was sent for inspection. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

These papers, which the kindness of the late owner, Mr. Shaw-Hellier of Wimbourne Wodehouse, and of Mr. W. P. Gibbons of The Foxhills, Wimbourne, near Wolverhampton, have placed in the hands of the Society, are taken from a commonplace book compiled by Richard Broughton, man of business to Walter and Robert Devereux, Earls of Essex [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Comments on several articles about the economic development of the United States. Factors that changed income distribution in the country; Arguments on the growth of demand from capital-intensive subsectors.

22. The opening of Parliament 1614; Wentworth to his father (SC, xxi/7).After my humble duty remembred, desiring your blessing &c, Sir, this day was the first of the Parlament, whear after the oath of supremecy and allegeance administred to the lower house, wee went to hear the king's maiesty's speach which was diuided into three parts: bona animae, bona corporis, bona fortunae. In the first part he spoke sumthings touching the increase of Papists, his maiesties care and watchfullnes to preuent ther increase, but rather by the clearing of sum points as yeat obsqure and the exeqution of that which hath allready been inacted then by more strikter order, bycause that seuerity is soe far from altering men's consciences that itt doth rather confirme them in thear opinions, with the particulars whearof he would lett the house haue notice att more leisure. Under the head of bona corporis he spoke of his royall issue and among the rest, of the prince Palitine his many vertues and the reasons whie his maiesty affected that mache before any other, to witt in regard of his religion; lastly that the electore Palatine and his issue might be made free dinozens. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

8. Thomas Lord Burghley to Sir William Wentworth (SC, xx/188).After my verie hartie commendacons, whereas it hath pleased her Maiestie to constitute you high sherife for the Countye of Yorke and that the Clarkship of the Attachmentts in that Cowrte wherof I am President hath bin usuallie conferred upon some such person as the Lord President should recommend to that place; I, not dowbtinge but you will use the same manner of gratificacon toward mee as my predecessors haue receiued and myself obtained from such as haue bin Sheriffes before you, do hartelie praye you to bestowe that office upon my seruant Peter Chapman, whom I haue thought good to name unto you for the execucon of the same under you which I shall both take as an argument of your loue and good affeccon to mee and wilbe readie to requite it as occasion shalbe offered. And so I committ you to God's safe protecconfom Newarke this 27th of Nouember 1601 your very louyng frend, Tho: Burghley. To my verie lovinge freind Willm Wentworth esquire, high Sheriffe for the countie of Yorke. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Comments on an article about the diffusion paths of early steam power. Factors that influence diffusion; Aspects of technological monopolization.

William Winter, that arbiter of affairs dramatic during the last quarter of the nineteenth century and the first decade of the twentieth, after paying high tribute in Shakespeare on the Stage to the greatness of Ellen Terry as an actress, dismisses her as a lecturer on Shakespeare with a few lines. Declaring that she would have been well advised to follow in the footsteps of Fanny Kemble and Charlotte Cushman by giving Shakespearean “readings” rather than lectures, he concludes that “Her views…were often incorrect, generally commonplace, and, in the matter of thought, superficial.” (p. 225) [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

One of the immediate tasks in the field of Mongol studies is to take stock of the prints and manuscripts scattered in many different libraries. As a small contribution to this task there follows a list of the contents of a collection of Mongol manuscripts in the University Library, Cambridge. There are thirty-four texts (plus one in Tibetan written in an ornamental Tibetan script), the majority of them ritualistic in content. There is no general title to the collection, and it gives the impression of being a detached fragment from a private library. There are 389 folios of slightly varying dimensions, the approximate measurements being 28 by 6·5 cm. Eleven of the texts, (Nos. 1–11), totalling 213 folios, are written on paper of uniform quality, and some of the remaining texts can also be sorted into groups on the basis of similarity in the quality of the paper. The folios are contained as two pothis between brocade-covered boards. When first inspected the folios were found to be rather muddled, but it was possible to re-sort them into their correct order within the individual texts, and to establish the probable completeness of the latter. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]