CONTENTS. 



1854. 



Page 

 Nov. 6.— General Monthly Meeting , , . .1 



Dec. 4. — General Monthly Meeting .... 5 



1855. 



Jan. 19. — Professor Faraday — On some points of Mag- 

 netic philosophy . , . • . 6 



„ 26. — Professor Tyndall — On the Nature of the Force 

 by which bodies are repelled from the poles 

 of a Magnet ...... 13 



Feb. 2. — G. B. Airy, Esq. — On the Pendulum Experiments 

 lately made in the Harton Colliery, for ascertain- 

 ing the mean Density of the Earth , . .17 



„ 5. — General Monthly Meeting . . . .23 



„ 9. — Professor Owen — On the Anthropoid Apes and 



their relations to Man . . . . ,26 



„ 16. — Edward Jekyll, Esq. — On Siege Operations . 42 



„ 23. — John Dickinson, Esq. — On providing an addi- 

 tional Supply of Pure Water for London , 47 

 March 2.— Dr. John Stenhouse — On the Economical Appli- 

 cations of Charcoal to Sanitary purposes • . 53 



„ 5. — General Monthly Meeting • . . .55 



„ 9. — Thomas Sopwith, Esq. — On the Mining Districts 



ofthe North of England . . . .57 



„ 16.— Dr. Wm. Odling — On the Constitution of the 



Hydro-Carbons ...... 63 



„ 23. — Rev. John Eyre Ashby— On (so called) Cata- 

 lytic action and combustion ; and theories of 

 Catalysis ....... 66 



„ 30. — Rev. John Barlow — On the application of Che- 

 mistry to the Preservation of Food . . 72 

 April 2.— General Monthly Meeting .... 80 



