XIV CONTENTS. 



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Mr. James Fox Wilson on the Increasing Desiccation of Inner Southern 



Africa 1^^ 



Mr. W. Martin Wood on the Hairy Men of Jesso 150 



ECONOMIC SCIENCE axd STATISTICS. 



Address by William Farb, M.D., D.C.L., F.R.S., the President of the Sec- 

 tion l-'jl 



Mr. Samuel Brown on the Rates of Mortality and Marriage amongst Euro- 

 peans in India 1^-^ 



Mr. W. Chetwynd on the Progress of Postal Banks (Post-Office Savings- 

 Banks) 163 



Mr. Handel Cossham, Statistics relative to the Bristol Coal-Field 164 



Mr. E. B. Elliott on Military Statistics of certain iVrmies, especially those 

 of the United States 164 



Dr. William Fabr's Life Tables, by the Swedish Calculating Machine (with 



Photographs of the Machine bj' A. Claudet) 165 



Professor Henry Fawcett on the Causes which Produce the Present High 

 Rate of Discount 165 



Colonel C. W. Grant's Notes on a Cotton Chai't, showing the Effect on 

 Cotton of the CivU War in America 166 



Mr. R. T. Gore's Statement of the Mortality of the City of Bath 167 



M. GuERRY on Crime in England and France 167 



Major-General Hannyngton's remarks on the French Calculating Machine . 167 



Mr. R. Herbert, Statistics of Live Stock 167 



Mr. James Heywood on the Recommendations of the Public School Com- 

 missioners for the Distribution of School Time 167 



Rev. Dr. Hume on the Locality of the various Religious Bodies in Ireland . . 169 



Lieutenant-Colonel Kennedy on the British Home and Colonial Empire in 

 its Mutual Relations 169 



Professor Leone Levi on the Economical Administration of the Navy 169 



, Statistics on the Number and Occupations of Foreigners 



in England 169 



Mr. A. B. MiDDLETON on the Sanitary Statistics of Salisbury 169 



Mr. I. Pitman on Brief Writing 169 



Mr. Fbedebick Pubdy on the Quantity and Value of Foreign Grain imported 

 into the United Kingdom since the Repeal of the Corn Laws 171 



Mr. T. W. Saundebs, Statistics of Crime and Criminals in England 172 



Mr. Edward Spender on the " Truck System " in some Parts of the West 

 of England 175 



Dr. J. A. Symonds on the Sanitary Statistics of Clifton 176 



Mr. William Tite on the Comparative Rates of Mortality in Paris and 

 London 177 



Colonel ToRRENs on the Land-Transfer of Australia as applicable to Ireland . 179 



Mr. W. Westgarth, Statistics of Crime in Australia 180 



Mr. J. Wilson on the Registration of Births and Deaths in Ireland 180 



Dr. Edward Wilson, Sanitary Statistics of Cheltenham 180 



