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LIST OF PLATES. 
PLATE I. 
Illustrative of Mr. J. S. Bowerbank’s Report on the Vitality of the Spongiade. 
PLATE II. 
Illustrative of Mr. John Simpson’s Thermometrical Observations made at 
the ‘ Plover’s’ wintering-place, Point Barrow, latitude 71° 21! N., 
long. 156° 17! W., in 1852-54. 
PLATE III. 
Illustrative of the Rev. E. Hincks’s paper on the Relation between the newly- 
discovered Accadian Language and the Indo-European, Semitic and 
Egyptian Languages. 
PLATE IV. 
Illustrative of Mr. George Rennie’s paper on the Quantity of Heat developed 
by Water when rapidly agitated. 
PLATE V. 
Illustrative of Mr. Andrew Henderson’s Report on the Statistics of Life- 
boats and Fishing-boats on the coasts of the United Kingdom. 
