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Mr. Harley's paper containing the explicit form of the Complete Cubic 

 Differential Resolvent. 



Professor Tilden's report ' On the Nature of Solution.' 



Mr. J. "W. Davis's paper ' On the Ray gill Fissure.' 



Mr. J. Player's paper ' On a Rapid Method of Estimating Silica in 

 Rocks.' 



Messrs. W. Shelford and A. H. Shield's paper ' On some Points for 

 the Consideration of English Engineers with reference to the Design of 

 Girder Bridges.' 



Professor Hele Shaw and Mr. Edward Shaw's paper ' On the Sphere 

 and Roller Mechanism for Transmitting Power ' (with the necessary 

 diagrams) . 



Mr. J. Wilson Swan's paper ' On Improvements in Electric Safety 

 Lamps.' 



Mr. W. S. Till's paper ' On the Birmingham District Drainage.' 



Resolutions referred to the Council for Consideration, and Action if 



desirable. 



That the Council be requested to consider the question of rendering 

 the Reports and other papers communicated to the Association more 

 readily accessible to the members and others by issuing a limited number 

 of them in separate form, or in associated parts, in advance of the annual 

 volume. 



That the Council be requested to consider whether a memorial should 

 be presented to Her Majesty's Government, urging them to undertake 

 and supervise Agricultural Experiments, and to procure further and 

 more complete Agricultural Statistics. 



That the Council be requested to consider the advisability of calling 

 the attention of the proprietor of Stonehenge to the danger in which 

 several of the stones are at the present time from the burrowing of 

 rabbits, and also to the desirability of removing the wooden props which 

 support the horizontal stone of one of the trilithons ; and in view of the 

 great value of Stonehenge as an ancient national monument to express 

 the hope of the Association that some steps will be taken to remedy these 

 sources of danger to the stones. 



