24 CHARLES GRIFFIN & CO.’8S PUBLICATIONS. 
OFFICIAL YEAR-BOOK 
OF THE 
SCIENTIFIC AND LEARNED SOCIETIES OF GREAT 
BRITAIN AND IRELAND. Price 7/6. 
COMPILED FROM OFFICIAL SOURCES. SIXTH ANNUAL ISSUE. 
Comprising (together with other Official Information) LISTS of the 
PAPERS read during 1888 before the ROYAL SOCIETIES of LONDON 
and EDINBURGH, the ROYAL DUBLIN SOCIETY, the BRITISH 
ASSOCIATION, and all the LEADING SOCIETIES throughout the 
Kingdom engaged in the following Departments of Research :— 
$1. Science Generally: z.e., Societies occupy- | § 6. Economic Science and Statistics. 
ing themselves with several Branches of | $ 7. Mechanical Science and Architecture. 
Science, or with Science and Literature | $ 8. Naval and Military Science. 
jointly. § 9. Agriculture and Horticulture. 
§ 2. Mathematics and Physics. $10. Law. 
§ 3. Chemistry and Photography. § 11. Medicine. 
§ 4. Geology, Geography, and Mineralogy. § 12. Literature. 
§5. Biology, including Microscopy and An- | $13. Psychology. 
thropology. §14. Archeology. 
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the progress of Science.”—Sir Lyon Playfair, F.R.S., K.C.B., M P., Past-President 
of the British Association. i ‘ , 
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Issues. 
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THE SCIENTIFIC WORK of the year in the various Departments. 
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