CONTENTS. V 



1888. Page 



Feb. 6.— General Monthly Meeting 201 



„ 10. — W. H. Preece, Esq. — Safety Lamps in Collieries 204 

 5, 17. — Sir Henry Doulton. — Some Developments of 



English Pottery during the last fifty years .. 212 



„ 24. — The Very Eev. G. Granville Bradley — West- 

 minster Abbey .. .. ., .. .. 217 



March 2. — 0. Meymott Tidy, Esq. — Poisons and Poisonings 220 



„ 5.— General Monthly Meeting .. 230 



„ 9. — Leslie Stephen, Esq. — S. T. Coleridge .. .. 233 



„ 16. — John Murray, Esq. — Structure, Origin, and Dis- 

 tribution of Cord Eeefs and Islands .. .. 251 



„ 23. — Sir Frederick Bramwell. — A Lecture with, — and 



without, — j)oint (no Abstract) .. .. .. 262 



April 2.— General Monthly Meeting .. 268 



„ 13. — Professor Flower. — The Pygmy Eaces of Men 266 



„ 20. — The Eight Hon. Sir William E. Grove. — 

 Antagonism 



27. — James Wimshurst, Esq. 

 Machines .. 



Electrical Influence 



Invincible Armada : a 



284 



300 

 306 



May 1. — Annual Meeting 



„ 4. — J. K. Laughton, Esq. — The 



Tercentenary Eetrospect .. .. .. .. 307 



7.— General Monthly Meeting 327 



„ 11. — Professor W. Chandler Egberts- Austen. — Some 



curious properties of Metals and Alloys ,, 367 



„ 18. — M. Alphonse Eenard. — La reproduction artificielle 



des roches volcaniques. (In French) .. .. 330 



„ 25. — Francis Galton, Esq. — Personal Identification and 



Description .. .. .. .. .. 346 



Jimc 1. — Professor J. A. Ewing. — Earth quakes and how to 



measure them .. .. .. .. ..361 



