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CONTENTS. 



Papers read before the Society, in Italia ; those marked thus * are given abridged or 

 entire ; those uarked thus -f hare been printed elsewhere. 



PAOE. 



Statement of Accounts, 1848-49 and 1849-50. .vi, vii 



Office-bearers during Sessions xxxviii and xxxix. 1 



Members of the Society — Ordinary 2 



Corresponding 8 



Report of Jletiring Council, Session xxxvii 11 



*Booth, Rev. Dr. — Valedictory Address 12 



Harvey, Mr. J. — on Monetary Science 18 



■^Beechey, Rev. St. Vincent — on the Sabaan Origin of 



the WiTiged Lion and Wi7iged Bull of Nineveh 19 



*Hume, Rev. Dr. — on the Philosophy of Geographical 



Names 40 



*Inman, Dr.— on the Punishment of Death in cases of 



Murder 72 



Lowndes, Mr. — on the Cities and Cemeteries of Etruria*. 78 

 *Huggins, Mr. S. — on the Nature and Influence of the 



Beautiful ^. 80 



Laker, Mr. — on the Philosophy of Heraldry, and its 



Sawon Analogies 84 



[ tHiggin, Mr. E. — on the UisUyry of Door Fastenings ... 84 



*Faram, Mr. — on the Nature and Essence of Body 85 



f rhomson. Dr. D. P.— on the Law of Storms 87, lOS 



*Picton, Mr. — on Traces of the Settleinents of the Saxous 



in England 89 



Ross, Mr. C. J. — on the Ecanmntcs of Education .. . 106, 149 



