CONTENTS 



ARTrCLR Pau* 



I. — An Account of the Early Mathematical and Philosophical 

 Writings of the late Dr. Dalton. By T. T. Wilkinson, 



F.R.A.S., &c 1 



II — On the Origin of Ironstones, and more particularly the newly 

 discovered Red Stone at Ipstones, near Cheadle, Staffordshire ; 

 with some Account of the Ironstones of South Lancashire. 



By E. W. BiNNEY, F.G.S 31 



III On the Representation and Enumeration of Polyedra. By the 



Rev. Thomas P. Kirkman, A.M., Rector of Croft-with- 



Southworth 47 



IV. — Statistics of the Collieries of Lancashire, Cheshire, and North 

 Wales. By Joseph Dickinson, F.G.S., Inspector of Coal 



Mines 71 



V On the Action of the Ferment of Madder on Sugar. By Edward 



ScHUNCK, Ph.D., F.R.S 109 



VI.— On the k-partitions of N. By the Rev. Thomas P. Kirkman, 



A.M., Rector of Croft- with- South worth 129 



VII Memoir of the Rev. John Lawson, B.D., Rector of Swanscombe, 



Kent. By T. T. Wilkinson, F.R.A.S., &c '. 147 



VIII — On Sewage and Sewage Rivers. By Robert Angus Smith, 



Ph. D., FC.S 155 



IX — On the Formation of Indigo-blue. Part I. By Edward 



Schunck, Ph.D., FR.S 177 



X — On the Permian Beds of the North- West of England. By Edward 



W, Binney. F.G.S 209 



XI — On an Apparatus for collecting the Gases from Water and other 

 Liquids, and its Application in general Chemical Analysis. 



By Robert Angus Smith, Ph.D., F.C.S 271 



List of Donations 276 



Index to the Seventeen Volumes of the Memoirs, &c. By John Har- 



land, F.S.A 286 



Alphabetical Index of Authors • 809 



The Council of the Literary and Philosophical Society of Manchester ... 319 

 Alphabetical List of Members 320 



