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Dr Lay cock. — On the relation of Consciousness to Reflex 

 or Automatic Action. 



Dr Carpenter, F.R.S. — On the Relative Functions of the 

 Cerebral Hemispheres, and Sensory Ganglia in Intellectual 

 Operations. 



Dr J. Dalziel. — On Hysteria, Hydrophobia, and other Con- 

 vulsive Affections, containing an Analysis of the Phenomena 

 of Water-dread. 



Section F. — Statistics. 



G. R. Porter, Esq., F.R.S. — Remarks suggested by an exa- 

 mination of the recent Statistics of the Cotton Manufacture 

 in Great Britain. 



F. G. P. Neison, Esq. — On the rate of Mortality among 

 the Provident Classes in Germany, and in Great Britain. 



Professor W. P. Alison. — Account of the system of Croft- 

 husbandry adopted at Gairloch in Ross-shire, chiefly on waste 

 lands, since 1846, and its result, as illustrating the condi- 

 tions under which the labour of Paupers and Criminals may 

 safely be made productive. 



Mr A. Keith Johnston read a paper " on the Geographical 

 distribution of Health and Disease, as indicated by natural 

 phenomena," which was illustrated by numerous very inter- 

 esting maps and diagrams : — 



Since the time of Hippocrates a belief has existed that the 

 development of the moral and physical faculties of man is 

 dependent, not on original organization only, but also on the 

 atmosphere by which he is surrounded, and the nature of the 

 soil on which he is reared ; and modern researches in phy- 

 sical geography, combined with statistical investigations in 

 medical science, have confirmed this opinion. Sweden fur- 

 nished the first tables of mortality, since then England, 

 France, Prussia, and the United States of America, have 

 each contributed systematic statistical returns, and thus a 

 vast mass of material has been accumulated, from which 

 valuable conclusions may be deduced, especially since it is 

 known that, during a similar series of years, the same dis- 

 eases reappear with the most astonishing regularity, both as 



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