Vlll CONTENTS. 



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 Marcli 7. — Professor Oliver — On the Distribution of North- 

 ern Plants 431 



„ 14. — W. S. Savory, Esq. — On Motion in Plants and 



Animals . . . . . . ' . . 433 



„ 21. — F. A. Abel, Esq. — On some of the Causes, Effects, 



and Military Applications of Explosions . . 438 

 „ 28. — Admiral R. Fitzroy — An Explanation of the 

 Meteorological Telegraphy, and its basis, now 

 under trial at the Board of Trade . . . 444 

 April 4. — Commissioner M. D. Hill — On the Post-Office . 457 



„ 7. — General Monthly Meeting 4'66 



„ 11. — Dr. Hofmann — On Mauve and Magenta, and the 



Colouring Matters derived from Coal . . . 468 

 May 1. — Annual Meeting ....... 484 



„ 2. — R. MoNCKTON Milnes, Esq. M.P. — On the Inter- 

 national Exhibition for 1862 .. . , . 485 



„ 5. — General Monthly Meeting 489 



„ 9. — W. Fairbairn, Esq. — On the Properties of Iron 

 and its Powers of Resistance to Projectiles at high 

 Velocities . . . . . . . .491 



„ 16.— J. Scott Russell, Esq. — On the Iron Walls of 



England 503 



„ 23.— Warington W. Smyth, Esq.— On Coal, as one of 



the great Materials of British Industry . .510 

 „ 30.— T. Bazley, Esq. M.P.— A Plea for Cotton and for 



Industry ........ 514 



June 2. — General Monthly Meeting ...... 526 



„ 6.— Professor J. Tyndall— On Force . . . 527 

 „ 13. — Major-Gen. Sir Henry C. Rawlinson, K.C.B. 

 D.C.L. F.R.S.— On Cuneiform Writing, and the 

 Way to Rtad it (no Abstract.) .... 536 



„ 20. — Professor Faraday — On Gas- Furnaces . . 536 



July 7.— General Monthly Meeting 540 



Kov. 3. — General Monthly Meeting 542 



Index 545 



