ON THE PROGRESS OF SCIENCE. XI 







Social Aspect; by Mr. M. A, Hayes." " On the more Prominent Causes 

 of an Excessive Mortality in Early Life ; by Dr. Moore." " On the Phys- 

 ical Degeneration of Town Populations ; by Dr. Beddoe." " On Hos- 

 pital Statistics ; by Florence Nightingale." " On the Influence of the 

 Food on the Intellect ; by Dr. H. Kennedy." " On the Health of Mer- 

 chant Seamen ; by Dr. J. O. William." " On Practical Sanitary 

 Work in Town and Country ; by Mrs. Fison." " On Quarantine ; by 

 Dr. Milroy." " On the Application of Sanitary Science to Public 

 Works of Irrigation ; by Mr. E. Chadwick." " On the Disposal of 

 Boys from Reformatories ; by the Rev. J. Fish." " On Sentences, 

 with a view to Reformation or Deterrence; by T. B. L. Baker." 

 " On Punishment, its Effects by way of Example ; by Mr. C. H. 

 Foote." " On the Condition of the Working Women in England and 

 France; by Miss Parkes." "Women Compositors; by Miss Emily 

 Faithful!." " On the Law of Fluctuation in Wages ; by Prof. H. Hen- 

 nessy." " On Working Men's Reading-rooms ; by Dr. R. Elliott." 

 " On the Condition of the Working Classes and their Dwellings ; by 

 the Rev. J. B. Robinson." " On the Superior Economy of Adminis- 

 tration of Voluntary as distinguished from Legal Charity ; by Major 

 O'Reilly." " On the Necessity of a Universal System of Weights, 

 Measures, and Coinage ; by M. Chevalier, of France." " On Public 

 Prosecutors in Prussia ; by Baron Holtzendorff." " Should the Ac- 

 counts of Joint Stock Companies be Audited by a Public Officer ? by 

 Mr. D. C. Heron." " Observations on the Proposal of Admitting the 

 Evidence of Accused Persons on their Trial ; by Mr. P. J. McKenna." 



The Emperor of Russia has recently placed in the hands of M. 

 Struve, the distinguished Russian astronomer, the sum of 125,000 

 francs, to enable him to erect an observatory on the summit of Mount 

 Ararat, in Persia. It is hoped that, under the remarkably clear skies 

 of this country, important astronomical results will be attained to. 



A scientific expedition has been set on foot by the Government of 

 India, for the exploration of the great mountain chains of Central 

 Asia. It will consist of five men of science, geologists and phys- 

 icists, who, early in 1862, will traverse the Himalaya and Karchan 

 chains, and, proceeding into Tartary, explore the great Thian-Chan ; 

 then, passing eastwards, return to Hindustan by the gorges of the 

 Brahmaputra River. 



An English commission is now engaged, in cooperation with* a 

 commission appointed by the French Government, for the purpose of 

 connecting the triangulation of Great Britain with that of France and 

 Belgium. The ultimate result to be obtained is the substitution of one 

 meridional line for the lines of Greenwich, Paris, and St. Petersburg, 



