Journal of the Statistical Society of London, Volume 44

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Statistical Society of London, 1881 - Great Britain
Published papers whose appeal lies in their subject-matter rather than their technical statistical contents. Medical, social, educational, legal,demographic and governmental issues are of particular concern.
 

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Page 93 - Statistical Tables relating to Emigra" tion and Immigration from and into the United Kingdom in the " year 1882 : "— " Sir, — In submitting the annexed tables relating to emigration and immigration from and into the United Kingdom...
Page 45 - Fellows, of whom the number shall not be more than seventy at any one time. Proposal of Fellows. 4. Every Candidate for admission as a Fellow of the Society shall be proposed by two or more Fellows, who shall certify from their personal knowledge of him or of his works, that he is a fit person to be admitted a Fellow of the Society.
Page 58 - Society," the sum of £ , such legacy to be paid out of such part of my personal estate, not specifically bequeathed, as the law permits to be appropriated by will to such a purpose. NOTE A. — All gifts by will to the Society of...
Page 46 - Society have not paid his subscription before the 1st of July, he shall be applied to in writing by the Secretaries, and if the same be not paid before the 1st of January of the second year, a written application shall again be made by the Secretaries, and...
Page 48 - Duties of the President. 22. The President shall preside at all Meetings of the Society, Council, and Committees, which he shall attend, and in case of an equality of votes, shall have a second or casting vote.
Page 48 - Vice-President, whether Honorary or nominated, in the chair, shall act with the power of the President in presiding and voting at any Meeting of the Society or Council, and in admitting Fellows ; but no Vice-President shall be empowered to sign diplomas of admission of Honorary Fellows, or to expel Fellows or Honorary Fellows.
Page 654 - ... as our interest, to aim at a genuinely scientific character in our work. Our main object should be to assist in fixing theoretic ideas on the structure, functions, and development of society. Some may regard this view of the subject with impatience, as proposing to us investigations not bearing on the great and real needs of contemporary social life. But that would be a very mistaken notion. Luciferous research, in the words of Bacon, must come before fructiferous. " Effectual practice,
Page 101 - Thoth. A Romance. By JOSEPH SHIELD NICHOLSON, MA, D.Sc., Professor of Commercial and Political Economy and Mercantile Law in the University of Edinburgh. Third Edition. Crown 8vo, 4s.

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