CONTENTS. XIU 



Mr. T. D. Forsyth's Letter on Eastern Tiu-kestan lUi) 



Governor Gilpin on the Physical Geography of Colorado and adjacent Regions 170 



General W. Heine on Lines for a Ship-Canal across the American Isthmus. . 170 



Ml". John K. Laughton on the Great Currents of the Atmosphere 170 



Mr. R. H. Major on the Landfall of Columbus 171 



Lord Milton on Railway Routes across North America and the Physical 

 Aspects of the Country 172 



Mr. Werner Munzinger's Joiu-ney into the Interior of Hadramaut » 172 



Major-Gen. Sir Henry Rawlinson's Notes on the Site of the Terresti-ial 

 Paradise 172 



on Early Traditions reffardina; the River 



Oxus •; ......! 174 



Mr. W. WiN-\vooD Reade's Journey to the Upper Waters of the Niger .... 175 



Mr. E. G. Squier on the Basin of Lake Titicaca 175 



Captain Su- John Swinburne on the South-Afiican Gold-fields 176 



Mr. R. S^v^NH0E on the Island of Hainan 176 



Captain Taylor (late) on the Harbours of AVestern India 176 



Mr. John T. Towson on Windward Great Circle Sailing 177 



Colonel H. Yule's Notes on Analogies of Manners between the Indo-Chinese 

 and the Races of the Malay Ai-chipelago 178 



ECONOMIC SCIENCE and STATISTICS. 



Address by Professor W. Stanley Jevons, M.A., President of the Section. . 178 



Mr. R. Dudley Baxter on National Debts 187 



Mr. C. H. W. Briggs on Middle- Class Schools as they are, and as they ought 

 to be 188 



Mr. William Botly on the Economy of Lai-ge and Small Farms 188 



Mr. George Campbell on the Duties of the Government of India and of the 

 Merchants of England in promoting Production in India 188 



Mr. J. S. Campbell on the Tobacco Trade of Liverpool 189 



Mr. Hyde Clake's Proposition for a Census of Local Names 189 



Mr. J. Walter Ellis on the Decline of Small Farmers in Yorkshire and 

 Lancashire, the Cause and Effect 100 



Mr. Frank P. Fellowes on our Navy 190 



Mr, William B. Forwood on the Influence of Price upon the Cultivation 

 and Consumption of Cotton during the past ten years, embracing the period 

 of the American War and Cotton Famine 191 



^^'•,.^^.^^^^ ^^^■"I'A^'D on a Proposed Rearrangement of the Registration 

 Districts of England and Wales, for the purpose of facilitating Scientific 

 Muuy : 193 



Mr James Heywood on the Aptitude of North-American Indians for 

 Agriculture 193 



Mr. Berkeley Hill on the Statistics of the Contagious Diseases Acts 194 



The Rev. John Jones on Intemperance, purely with reference to Liverpool 195 



