CONTENTS. Vll 



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Mr. H. R. Schoolcraft on the Languages of America ..•. 83 



Chevalier Schomburgk on the Natives of Guiana 83 



Dr. King on the supposed extinct Inhabitants of Newfoundland 83 



Mr. KiNCAiD on the Shyens and Karens of India ., 84 



Rev. T. Myers on Ethno-epo-graphy 84 



Dr. KoMBST on the Mode of Constructing Ethnographical Maps 84 



MEDICAL SCIENCE. 



Dr. Hemins on a Disease of the Tongue , •■•"• 84 



Professor Peretti on the Bitter Principles of some Vegetables 84 



Dr. S. W. J. Merriman on the Comparative Frequency of Uterine Conception 85 



Dr. HoDGKiN on the Tape-Worm as prevalent in Abyssinia 85 



Dr. Laycock on the Reflex Function of the Brain 85 



Dr. Kemp on the Functions of the Bile 86 



Dr. Thurnam on the Scientific Cranioscopy of Professor Carus 86 



Dr. A. T. Thomson on the Influence of the Endermic Application of the Salts 



of Morphia in painful permanent Swelling of the Joints, causing contractions 86 



STATISTICS. 



Mr. G. R. Porter on the Mining Industry of France. 86 



On Agricultural Schools near East Bourne 87 



Lieut.-Col. Sykes on the Mortality of Calcutta 88 



on the Statistics of Frankfort on the Maine.. 88 



on the Statistics of Hospitals for the Insane in Bengal 89 



Mr. W. Charles Copperthwaite on the Statistics of Old and New Malton... 89 

 Rev. Theodore Drury's Hints on the Improvement of Agricultural Labourers 90 

 Dr. Laycock on the Sanatory Condition of York during the years 1839-1843... 90 

 on the Addition to Vital Statistics contained in the First Report 



of the Commissioners of Inquiry into the Circumstances affecting the Health 



of Towns '. 90 



Mr. Joseph Fletcher's Statistical Notices of the State of Education in York... 91 



Mr. William Felkin on the Statistics of the Machine-wrought Hosiery Trade 91 



Dr. John Thurnam on the relative Liability of the two Sexes to Insanity 92 



Mr. J. W. Woollgar on the Financial CEconomy of Savings' Banks 92 



Mr. C. H. Bracebridge on Rural Statistics, illustrated by those of the Ather- 



stone Union 93 



Captain Maconochie on the Statistics of the Criminal Population of Norfolk 



Island 93 



Mr. W. P. Alison's Notes on the Reports of the Poor Law Commissioners on 



the State of the Poor in Scotland 95 



Dr. Clendinning on the Statistics of Health, elucidated by the Records of the 



Marj'lebone Infirmary 96 



MECHANICAL SCIENCE. • 



Mr. J. Scott Russell on the Resistance of Railway Trains 96 



Mr. W. Bridges on Wooden Railways 97 



Mr. T. Birmingham on the Advantages to be obtained by turning Canals, in 

 certain situations and of certain forms, into Railways, especially as applicable 

 to the circumstances of the Royal Canal lying between the City of DubUn and 



the River Shannon 97 



Mr. J. Gray on the Causes of the great Versailles Railway Accident 97 



Rev. Dr. Scoresby on Steam Navigation in America 97 



Mr. J. G. BoDMER on the New Double Piston Steam-Engine, with a Model... 98 

 Mr. W. Fairbairn on the CEconomy of the Expansive Action of Steam in 



Steara-Engines 98 



