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the circumstance of many of the papers for which 

 these Meetings were more expressly instituted being 

 presented in the Sectional Meetings. The titles of the 

 papers read at the General Meetings are — 



1. "On the Olympic Games" — by the Rev. R. W. Hamilton, Pre- 



sident — (Read Oct. 19th, 1838.) 



2. " On the Ancient British Games" — by Dr. Hunter. — (Read Nov. 



2nd, 1838.) 



3. " On the Dispositions and Mental Endowments of Man" — ^by Mr. 



Hare.— (Read Nov- 16th, 1838.) 



4. " An Inquiry into the Identity of Instinct and Reason, and how far 



they are dependent upon the greater or less Development of 

 a Central Nervous Mass," — by Mr. Nunneley, Secretary. — 

 (Read Dec. 7th, 1838.) 



5. "On the Requisite Arrangements for a Meeting of the British 



Association in Leeds," — by Mr. West, Vice-President — (Read 

 Dec. 21st, 1838.) 



6. " On Animal Magnetism," — by Mr. Wm. Osburn, Curator. — (Read 



Jan. 4th, 1839.) 



7. "On Sergeant Talfourd's Plays and Modern Imitations of the 



Ancient Drama," — by Rev. Charles Wicksteed, B.A., (Read 

 Jan. 18th, 1839.) 



8. " On Respirable Air and its uses in the Maintenance of the Human 



Economy, and on the injurious Effects of Inhaling Air that is 

 Vitiated or Non-respirable," — ^by Dr. Mayne — (Read Feb. 1st, 

 1839.) 



9. " On the Importance and Advantage of a regulated System of 



Colonization," — by J. G. Marshall, Esq., F.G.S., Curator. — 

 (Read Feb. 15th, 1839.) 



10. " On the Cephalopoda,"— by Mr. T. P. Teale, F.L.S., Curator 



(Read March Ist, 1839.) 



11. "On the Retroactive Influence of Language upon Thought," — 



by Mr. John Wilkinson — (Read March 15th, 1839.) 



