CONTENTS. VU 



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 Dr. C. Clay's Observations on the Evils arising from the Use of Common Pes- 

 saries ! 87 



Dr. Bardsley on a Case of Monstrosity 87 



Dr. C. Clay on Diabetes mellitus 87 



Mr. Wilson on Lithotomy and Lithotripsy 87 



Mr. Robert Chambers on Mr. Fleming's Plans for Ventilation 87 



STATISTICS. 



On the Vital Statistics of Manchester, by a Committee of the Manchester Sta- 

 tistical Society 87 



Rev. R. Parkinson on the Registers of the Collegiate Church of Man- 

 chester 92 



Sir Charles Shaw on the Criminal Statistics of Manchester 92 



Mr. Shuttleworth on the Vital Statistics of the Spinners and Piercers em- 

 ployed in the fine Cotton-Mills of Manchester 93 



Mr. Henry Ashworth on the Increase of Property in South Lancashire since 



the Revolution 94 



Mr. Hopkins on the Criminal Statistics of Lancashire 95 



Mr. Gardner on the Industrial and Training School about to be erected in 



the neighbourhood of Manchester 96 



Mr. Noble on the Influence of the Factory System in the development of 



Pulmonary Consumption 96 



Dr. Ashton on Vital Statistics, with Remarks on the Influence which the At- 

 mosphere exerts over the rate of Mortality 97 



Dr. Alison on the Destitution and Mortality of some of the great Towns of 



Scotland 97 



Mr. Henry Woollcombe on the Statistics of Plymouth 98 



Mr. Henry John Porter on Loan Funds in Ireland 98 



on the Monts de Piete in Ireland 98 



Rev. H. L. Jones on the Commercial Statistics of France in 1840 98 



Mrs. Davies Gilbert on the Advantages arising from Spade Husbandry and 



Agricultural Education 99 



Mr. G. Webb Hall on the Differences of the Quality of the Milk of Cows for 



the different purposes of Milk and Cheese, numerically expressed 99 



Mr. James Heywood on the Comparative Statistics of the Universities of 



Oxford and Cambridge in the 16th, 17th and 18th Centuries 99 



Rev. Baden Powell's Contributions to Academical Statistics, continued from 

 1839 100 



MECHANICS. 



Mr. Charles Vignoles's Abstract of a Lecture upon the Atmospheric Railway, 

 prepared at the request of the Council for the Twelfth Meeting of the British 

 Association, and delivered in the Athenaeum of Manchester on the evening of 

 Monday the 27th of June, 1842 100 



Prof. Vignoles on Straight Axles for Locomotives 104 



Mr. James Nasmyth on the Strength of hammered and annealed Bars of Iron 

 and Railway Axles 105 



Prof. Vignoles on the best Form of Rails and the Upper Works of Railways 

 generally 106 



Mr. Wm. Fairbairn on Combustion of Coal, with a view to obtaining the 

 greatest Effect, and preventing the Generation of Smoke 107 



Mr. C. W. Williams on testing the Efficacy of the several Plans for abating 

 the Nuisances from Smoke by effecting a more perfect Combustion 108 



Mr. J. S. Russell on an Indicator of Speed of Steam Vessels 109 



Mr. Robert Chambers on certain Plans for Ventilation recently adopted in 

 Glasgow 109 



Mr. J. F. Bateman's Abstract of a Description of a Self-acting Waste Weir 

 and Scouring Sluice 110 



