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WEEKLY EVENING MEETING, 



Friday, April 20, 1860. 



Sir Henry Hol^land, Bart. M.D. F.R.S. Vice-President, 

 in the Chair. 



T. Spencer Cobbold, M.D. F.L.S. 

 On the Scope and Tendency of the Natural History Sciences. 



[Dr. Cobbold, in consequence of illness, was prevented from giving 

 an abstract of his discourse.] 



WEEKLY EVENING MEETING, 



Friday, April 27, 1860. 



Colonel Philip James Yorke, F.R.S. Vice-President, 

 in the Chair. 



F. A. Abel, Esq. 



DIKECTOR OF THE CHEMICAL ESTABLISHMENT OF THE WAE DEPABTMENT. 



On recent Applications of Science, in reference to the Efficiency and 

 Welfare of Military Forces. 



Some introductory remarks were offered illustrative of the very 

 numerous and important improvements which had taken place within 

 the last few years in almost* everything connected with the efficiency, 



