218 General Monthly Meeting, [March 5, 



Eight Lectures on 80me Recent Researches in PHYSicAii 

 Geograpuy and Geology, by David T. Ansted, Esq. M.A. 

 F.R.S. 



Eight Lectures on some Results of the Association of Heat 

 WITH Chemical Force, Practically Applied, by F. A. Abel, 

 Esq. Director of the Chemical Department, Royal Arsenal, Wool- 

 wich. 



The Presents received since the last Meeting were laid on the 

 table, and the thanks of the Members returned for the same. 



' The Special Thanks of the Members were returned to the Lord 

 Overstone, M.R.I, and to Arthur De Noe Walker, Esq. M.R.I. 

 for their valuable Donations, mentioned below : — 



Lord Overstone — A Select Collection of Scarce and Valuable Tracts on Political 

 Economy. (Privately printed at his Lordship's expense.) Edited by J. R. 

 M^Culloch. 4 vols. 8vo. 1857-9. 



Vol, I. On Paper Currency cmd Banking : 1857. 



1. On Currencies of the British Plantations in America. 1740. 



2. D. Hume, on Banks and Paper Money. 1752. 

 3 & 4. Essays on Banking, &c. 1755-58. 



5. On Suspension of Cash PajTnents in 1797. 



6. On Country Banks. 1802. 



1. H. Thornton on Paper Credit, 1802. 



8. On Exchange between London and Dublin from 1797 to 1804. 



9. Earl of Liverpool on Paper Currency. 1805. 



10. D. Ricardo on Bullion. 1811. 



11. Report of House of Commons Committee on Bullion, in 1810. 



12. W. Blake on the Course of Exchange and the Currency. 1810. 



13. W. Huskisson on Depreciation of the Currency. 1810. 

 Index. 



Vol. II. On the National Debt and the Sinking Fund : 1857. 



1. Essay on Publick Credit. 1710. 



2. Letter on Publick Securities. 1717. 



3. Essay on the Publick Debts. 1726. 



4. State of the National Debt. 1727. 



5. Defence of Tract No. 3 against No. 4, 1727. 



6. Representation of the House of Commons on the State of the National Debt in 1716 



and 1726. 1728. 

 t. D. Hume on iniblic Credit. 1752. 



8. W. Blackstone — Account of the National Debt. (From his Commentaries, published 



1765-8.) 



9. R. Price, on the National Debt. 1774. 



10. J. Wimpey, Extracts from " The Challenge," a letter to Price. 1772. 



11. Note on the Sinking Fund, established by Mr. Pitt in 1786. 



12. On the Annual Million Bill and the Sinking Fund. 1787. 



13. R. Hamilton, on the National Debt. 1818. 

 Index. 



Vol. ni. On Commerce : 1859. 



l.*Sir Walter Raleigh on Trade and Commerce. 



2. J. Evelyn — Navigation and Commerce. 1674. 



3. Plan of English Commerce. 1730. 



4. On Decline of Foreign Trade, &c. 1750. 



5. Jos. Tucker, on Trade. 1753. 



6. Proposals of the Prince of Orange to the States on the Trade of the Republick. 1751. 

 1. I. B. (Wm. Temple) Vindication of Commerce and the Arts. 1758. 



8. New and Old Principles of Trade Compared. 1788. 

 Index. 



