TABLE OF CONTENTS 



SECTION I. (HISTORICAL) 



Aims of the Club and history of its foundation. Biographies of 

 the forty-seven original members. Efforts to foster co-operation 

 and secure juxtaposition of the leading Scientific Societies. 

 Influence on the Council of the Royal Society. New members 

 and their biographies. Modification of rules and declining 

 attendance. Proposals for union with the Royal Society Club, 

 and steps in this direction. Ultimate amalgamation of the 



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SECTION II. (DISCUSSIONS) * 



Thermometric scales. Letters of Franklin and Priestley. Tea 

 cultivation. The earth's interior. Altitudes in Himalayas, 

 The sea-serpent. Meteorological questions. Marine fauna of 

 Lusitanian coast. Bismuth. Physiological investigations. 

 North American fishes. Development of trilobites. Arrian 

 and aromatic plants. Rhinoceros in the Zoological Gardens. 

 Errors of wet-bulb thermometers. Layard's discoveries in 

 Assyria. Attempts to photograph nebulae. Lunar volcanoes. 

 Powerful magnets. Turpentine and light. Resinous com- 

 pounds and lenses. Alluvial deposits of Nile valley. Boa 

 constrictor and its blanket. Effects of vibration on iron. 

 Changes of level in Arctic regions. New form of steam engine. 

 Geology of Madeira. Coal on Black Sea coast. Binocular 

 microscopes. The Ganges Canal. Fossil plants in Greenland. 

 Synthesis of organic compounds. Saturn's rings. Aluminium. 

 Tornado in America. Gutta-percha. Improved manufacture 

 of steel. Veined structure and colour of glacier ice. Regelation. 

 Parthenogenesis. Greensand grains. Timbuctoo. Living- 

 stone's journeys. Italian earthquakes. Transfusion of blood. 

 Ossiferous caves. Erupted lavas. Improvements in making 

 cannon. Photographic prints. Total solar eclipses. Palaeo- 

 lithic man. Moraines in the Lebanon. Deep-sea dredging. 



1 Only the more important subjects and their first mention are recorded. 



