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The following papers and communications have been read 

 at the Ordinary and Sectional Meetings of the Society 

 during the Session now closing : — 



1871. 

 Oct 3.— " On the High Death Rates of Manchester and Salford," 



by E. W. BiNNEY, F.RS., F.G.S., President. 

 Oct, 9. — "Notices of Several Recently-discovered and Unde- 

 scribed British Mosses," by G. E. Hunt, Esq. 

 "Notes on Dorcatoma Bovistae," by Joseph Side- 

 both am, F.R.A.S. 

 Oct. 17. — '' On the Oxychlorides of Antimony," by W. Carleton 

 Williams, Student in the Laboratory of Owens 

 College. Communicated by Professor H. E. Roscoe, 

 F.R.S. 

 Oct. 31. — "On the Discoveries made in the Victoria Cave," by 

 W. Boyd Dawkins, F.R.S. 

 " Note on the Chromium Oxychloride described by 

 Herr Zettnow in PoggendorfF's Annalen der Physik 

 und Chemie, No. 6, 1871," by T. E. Thorpe, F.R.S.E. 

 "On Aurine," by R. S. Dale, B. A., and C. Schorlemmer, 



F.R.S. 

 "Species Viewed Mathematically," by T. S. Alois, M.A. 

 Nov. 6. — " On Tricophyton tonsurans,^' by Mr. John Barrow. 

 NoY. 7. — " On Changes in the Distribution of Barometric 

 Pressure, Temperature, and Rainfall under Different 

 Winds, during a Solar Spot Period," by Joseph 

 Baxendell, F.R.A.S. 

 Nov. 14.— "On the Aurora of November 10th, 1871," by E. W. 

 BiNNEY, F.R.S., F.G.S., President. 

 " On the Origin of our Domestic Breeds of Cattle," by 

 Wm. Boyd Dawkins, F.R.S. 

 Nov. 28. — " Encke's Comet, and the Supposed Resisting Medium," 

 by Professor W. Stanley Jevons, M.A. 

 " On Cometary Phenomena," by Professor Osborne 



Reynolds, M.A. 

 " On the Rupture of Iron Wire by a Blow," by John 

 HOPKINSON, B.A,, D.Sc. 



