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 Capt. Sherard Osborn's Notes on the late Arctic Expeditions 149 



Sir B. F. OuTRAM on Hartlepool Pier and Port as a Harbour of Refuge 149 



Mr. Harry Pakkes's Notes on the Hindu-Chinese Nations and Siamese 

 Rivers, with an Account of Sir John Bowring's Mission to Siam 149 



Sefior Andres Poey on Hurricanes in the West Indies and the North Atlantic 

 from 1493 to 1855 • 150 



Mr. J. N. Ramsay's Account of the Ascent of Mont Blanc by a new Route 

 ftom the side of Italy 150 



Capt. Robertson's Ascent of the Mountain Sumeru Parbut 150 



Messrs. Adolphe Schlagintweit and Robert Schlagintweit's Notices 

 of Journeys in the Himalayas of Kemaon 152 



Sefior Susini on the Amazon and Atlantic Water-courses of South America... 155 



STATISTICS. 



Dr. W. P. Alison's Notes on the Application of Statistics to questions in 

 Medical Science, particularly as to the External Causes of Diseases 155 



Lady Bentham on an Improved Mode of Keeping Accounts in our National 

 Establishments 159 



Professor A. Buchanan on the Physiological Law of Mortality, and on certain 

 Deviations fi-om it, observed about the Commencement of Adult Life 160 



on a Mechanical Process, by which a Life Table com- 

 mencing at Birth may be converted into a Table, in every respect similar, 

 commencing at any other period of Life 163 



Mr. R. Clarke on Prevailing Diseases of Sierra Leone 164 



Dr. John Coldstream on some of the results deducible from the Report 

 on the Statics of Disease in Ireland, published with the Census of 1851 164 



Count D. Frolich's Analysis of some of the Principles which regulate the 

 Effects of a Convertible Paper Currency 165 



Mr. Petkr Gale on Decimal Arrangement of Land Measures 165 



Mr. J. W. GiLBART on the Laws of the Currency in Scotland 166 



Mr. J. Clyde, jun., on the Localities of Crime in Suffolk 167 



Mr. William A. Guy on the Fluctuations in the number of Births, Deaths, 

 and Marriages, and in the Number of Deaths from Special Causes, in the 

 Metropohs, during the last Fifteen Years, from 1840 to 1854 inclusive 167 



Mr. John Locke on the Agricultural Labourers of England and Wales, their 

 Inferiority in the Social Scale, and the means of effecting their Improvement. .171 



Dr. A. G. Malcolm on the Influence of Factory Life on the Health of the 

 Operative, as founded upon the Medical Statistics of this Class at Belfast ... 171 



Rev. A. K. M'Callum on Juvenile Delinquency— its Principal Causes and 

 Proposed Ciu-e, as adopted in the Glasgow Reformatory Schools 173 



Ml-. James M'Clelland on Measures relating to the adoption of the Family 

 and Agricultural System of Training in the Reformation of Criminal and 

 Destitute Children 1'^ 



Mr. William Newmarch's Remarks on two Lectures delivered at Oxford in 

 Trinity Term, by the Professor of Political Economy, on the subject of a recent 

 Paper by Mr. Newmarch, " On the Loans raised by Mr. Pitt from 1 793 to 1801" 183 



