FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OP SCIENCE. 



end iKMjiiiUl by the tesohar opinion with leas assurance, and for that very reason 

 IMT U ib ox4 lypkrnJ aod own has lost some of his influence on practical affairs. 



a toe* to Oust Britain with an occasional man 

 nad by PMannaan, tat especially that all 

 settee* ** i<ht toaro the way of the gco- 



For the practical man ban a sneaking ;. 



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- employer that the wages earned by the 

 OMB ahould be adequate U> maintain, and, if possible. 

 to inarease their efficiency ; and it waa the intereat of 



the employed that the profit* of the 



should encourage enterprise and induce a oJBotall 



i |.r-lu.-ti..ii iiti.l that waa a 





ics alono c u M duly emphasise 



tft* papers read before this popular 



and Gharian in Tripoli," 

 out RockaJU" by .V 

 and the Siberian Kail- 

 oyage to the AnUrc- 

 M Some Recent Phys- 



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"Oceanic Circulu- 

 an Instru 

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pbkal Phsoomsoa and Navigation Problems," by 

 & Blaikk; - An Expedition to Kuweniori, the 

 of a MonSTianM whtehare evi- 



>of Usonr**," by 0. MeettttofrifcV 



by 8. L. Kittle: -The Progress w , , 

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by A. Trrror Battye; "On Formosa,* 1 by 

 Dfakwa:-on thVltassiaa Poassasions in Central 

 Asia* aod - *ns of Northern Mongolia," 



by A. Markoff ; - On the Topography of Korea," by 

 Myrcs; and a - Report of the Committee on the 



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and War in the Congo' 



and Statistic*. This 

 CUfonL He Mid in reference to 



was the ultimate source of wealth distributed. The 



'ic amount procured the larger win* likely to be 

 the share of either part y in distribution, and many 

 event it was certain that a decreased prodnctioo must 



,',- .1 -tribution, the burd< n <!' u liieh 

 .dl.thouu'h r party. 



'.u. -ne.- tl. . /ion bypro- 



i was one which workmen seemed especially 



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in favor of " making work" or "providing employ 

 ment for the unemployed " proceeded from ignorance 

 or neglect of consideration. One of the most 

 taut advances of recent economics consisted in the 

 emphasis given to the influence of distribution in pro- 

 duction, and they saw more clearly then their prede- 

 cessors how the poverty of the poor, by b 

 insufficiency, mignt cause their i 

 wagea might imply not a high but a low cost of pro- 

 diu-tion. 



The following were among the principal papers 

 presented before the section : 



" A Comparison of the Rate of Increase of Wages in 

 . the United States and Great Britain, 1860-18<M 



A. L. Bowley ; " Bimetallism with a Climbing Ratio," 

 by II. Ilijrip*; "The Curren 

 Shaw; -The <;.,id Standard," bj Gem 

 Menace to Kn^'lish Industry from the ("ornpe: 

 Silver-Using <'o U ntrie>." bj K. S. Gundry; The 

 System that prevails in Scotland for the 

 of the National Parochial Registers." 1-v II 

 .'riculturo in Suffolk from the Landlord 1 

 '- I'retyman: -The 1'n.l-ab. 



Cessation of the Growth of Population in England 

 and Wales before 1961," by Edwin Cannun; "The 

 Correlation of the Rate of Total Pauperism with the 

 Proportion of Outdoor 1 ' .Yule; 



44 The State and Workers on the Land/ by J. Frorne 

 Wilkinson; and u The National Value of Or. 

 Labor and Co-operution among Women," by Mrs. 

 Bedford FenwickV 



O. Mechanical Science. L. F. Vcrn. >n H.ir 

 '"urt...f the Institute of Civil Engineers, was 



Mdiiitr '-nicer of this section, and h- de- 

 livered an inaugural address on "The i;,-lnti.n 

 of Engineering to Science." At tho outset ho 

 expressed the belief that it would be best to 

 limit his t..j,ic to consideration of tho relation 

 that engineering in general, and maritime and 



iQc engineering in particular, bear to pure 

 science, and the means oy which progr 

 engineering science might be best 



scope ami utility increased. Aft. r di- 

 cussing several well-known definitions of en- 

 gtneenng he referred to the equipments of an 

 engineer, and said : 



Amongthcbranchesofsciencenece 

 >, two mar be regarded as of t 



irn 

 Hher 



of comparatively minor im[)oftance to en- 

 / chemistry, Jlogy, and meteor 



mattes in iu higher branches appears to 

 * i ' rec * connection with cngineenng, but 

 applied mathematics can not be safely neglected by 

 eer. Under physics he spoke of the many 

 a knowledge of science was 



