^^^ CONTENTS. 



ECONOMIC SCIENCE and STATISTICS. 



Addi-ess by Lohd Neaves, one of the Lords of Session, President of the Sec- 

 tion 191 



Colonel Sir J. E. Alexander on Sanitary Measures for Scottish Villages . . 200 

 Lydia E. Becker on some Maxims of Political Economy as applied to the 

 Employment of Women, and the Education of Girls 201 



Mr. William Botley on Land Tenure 202 



Mr. Thomas J. Boyd on Educational Hospital Reform : The Scheme of the 

 Edinburgh Merchant Company 202 



Mr. Samuel Brown on the Measurement of Man and his Faculties 210 



Sheriff Cleghorn on the Wellington Reformatory 211 



Mr. F. P. Fellowes on a proposed Doomsday Book, giving the Value of the 

 Governmental Property as a basis for a sound system of National Finance 

 and Accounts 211 



Mr. William Hoyt:,e on Political Economy, Pauperism, the Labour Question, 

 and the Liquor Traffic 212 



Mr. A. Jyram-Row on the present state of Education in India, and its bear- 

 ings on the question of Social Science 212 



:Mr. Charles Lamport on Naval Efficiency and Dockyard Economy 212 



Mr. W. M'Bean on the Edinburgh Industrial Home for Fallen Women, Aln- 

 wick Hill, near Liberton 212 



Mr. James Meikle on the Mode for Assessing for the Poor-Rates 213 



Mr. W. A. Peterkin on the Administration of the Poor Law 213 



Mr. George Seton on the Illegitimacy of Banffshire 214 



■ — on the Expediency of recording Still-Births 215 



• on certain Cases of Questioned Legitimacy under the 



Operation of the Scottish Registration Act (17 & 18 Vict. c. 80) 217 



Dr. George Smith on Indian Statistics and Official Reports 220 



Mr. William Stephenson on the Scientific Aspects of Children's Hospitals 221 



Mr. G. Johnstone Stoney on the Relation between British and Metrical 

 Measures 222 



Mr. W. Taylor on the Manual Labour Classes of England, Wales, and 

 Scotland 223 



Mr. James Valentine on Census Reform 223 



Mr. R. Bailey Walker on the Organization of Societies, nationally and locally 

 considered 223 



Mr. William Westgabth on the Law of Capital 223 



MECHANICAL SCIENCE. 



Address by Professor Fleeming Jenkin, F.R.S., President of the Section . , 225 

 Mr. Philip Braham on an Apparatus for working Torpedoes 229 



Mr. F. J. BRAMm-ELL's Account of some Experiments upon a " Carr's Disin- 

 tegrator" at work at Messrs. Gibson and Walker's Flour-mills, Leith .... 229 



