CONTENTS. 



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I. — On the Causes of the great Currents of the Ocean. B\- Mr. 



Alderman Hopkins 1 



II. — Some Remarks on " The Deserted Village" of Goldsmith. By 



Mr. J. Y. Caw 17 



III. — A New Discussion of the General Equation of Curv'es of the 



Second Degree. By Mr. Eobert Finlay 33 



IV. — On the Origin and Nature of the Forces that produce Storms. 



By Mr. Hopkins 69 



V. — Contributions to the Knowledge of the Manufacture of Gas. By 



Dr. E. Fbankland 71 



VI. — Notes on the Drift Deposits found near Blackpool. By Mr. E. 



W. BiNNEY 121 



VII. — Some Account of the Floods which occurred at the Manchester 

 Waterworks in the month of February, 1852. By Mr. J. F. 

 Bateman 1.37 



VIII. — On the Identity of Light, Heat, Electricity, Magnetism, and 



Gravitation. By J. Goodman, M.D I55 



IX. — On the economical production of Mechanical EflFect from Che- 

 mical Forces. By Mr. J. P. Joule I73 



X. — On some Trails and Holes found in Rocks of the Carboniferous 

 Strata, with remarks on the Microconchus Carbonarius. By 

 E. W. BiNNEY 181 



XI. — A Biographical Notice of Peter Clare, Esq., F.R.A.S. By the 



Rev. Henry Halfobd Jones 203 



XII. — On the Air and Rain of Manchester. By R. Angus Sjoth 207 



List of Donations 219 



List of Members 223 



