Vlll CONTENTS. 



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 Mar. 19. — Henry Thomas Buckle, Esq.— On the Influence 



of Women on the Progress of Knowledge . 504 



„ 26. — Eev. John Barlow — On Mineral Candles and 

 other Products manufactured at Belmont and 



Sherwood 506 



April 5. — General Monthly Meeting .... 509 



„ 16. — Robert Godwin- Austen, Esq. — On the Condi- 

 tions which determine the probability of Coal 

 beneath the South-Eastern parts of England . 511 



„ 23. — Col. Henry James — On the Geodetic Opera- 

 tions of the Ordnance Survey . . .516 



„ 30.— Professor A. C. Ramsay — On the Geological 

 Causes that hate influenced the Scenery of 

 Canada and the North-Eastern Provinces of the 



United States 522 



May 1, — Annual Meeting ...... 524 



„ 3. — General Monthly Meeting .... 526 



„ 7. — James Philip Lacaita, Esq. — On the late Earth- 

 quakes in Southern Italy .... 528 



„ 14. — Henry Bradbury, Esq. — Printing: its Dawn, 



Day, and Destiny. {No Abstract) . . 534 



„ 21. — Professor T. H. Huxley — On the Phenomena 



of Gemmation ...... 534 



„ 28. — Professor Edward Frankland — On the pro- 

 duction of Organic Bodies without the agency 



of Vitality 538 



June 4. — Professor Tyndall — On the Mer-de-Glace . 544 



„ 7. — General Monthly Meeting .... 554 



„ 11. — Professor Faraday — On Wheatstone's Electric 



Telegraph, in Relation to Science . . . 555 



July 5. — General Monthly Meeting .... 560 

 Index . . t ..... . 562 



