TABLE OF CONTENTS. 



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List of Members 5 



Annual Meeting 11 



Election of Council and Ofl&cers 11 



Beport of Council 13 



Table of Income and Expenditure, 1846 — 1855 inclusive 16 



Treasurer's Accounts 18 



Extraordinary Meetings 19, 50, 66 



Ordinary Meetings 19, 28, 44, 50, 66, 67, 77, 107, 111, 117, 130, 138, 148 



Death of Joseph Brooks Yates, Esq 66 



Papers read : Archer, T. C, Esq., On the useful products of the Palmaceas. . 19 



Eobberds, Eev. J., B.A., Poetiy and its Application to Common 

 Life 29 



Eundell, W.W., Esq., On Magnetic Variation, and the Pro- 

 ceedings of the Compass Committee 44 



Higgins, Kev. H. H., M.A., On the Cultivation of Mosses ... 45 

 McAndrew, Eobert, Esq., F.E.S., Notes on a Dredging Excur- 

 sion to the North Cape 51 



Towson, J. T.,Esq., On the Instruments used by the Compass 

 Committee 67 



Moi-ton, Mr. O. H., On the Sub-di\asions of the New Eed 

 Sandstone, between the river Dee and the up-throw of the 

 Coal Measures east of Liverpool 68 



Toveson, J. T.,Esq., On additional Observations onlcelmpedi- 

 ments to Austi'alian Voyages 76 



Ihne, Dr., A Plea for the Emperor Tiberius 77 



Archer, T. C, Esq., Ou the Useful Products of the Graminacecc 107 

 Brooke, Eichard, Esq., F.S.A., Upon the Extraordinary and 

 Abrupt Changes of Fortune of Jasper, Earl of Pembroke, 



in the Fifteenth Century Ill 



Podigrce of the same 11,1 



