XIV CONTENTS. 



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Dr. Thomas De Meschin on the Impolicy, ou economic grounds, of convert- 

 ing the National Debt into Terminable Annuities 196 



■ • on the Compulsory Conversion of Substantial 



Leaseholds in Towns into Freeholds 196 



Mr. R. M. Pankhurst on the Policy and Provisions of a Patau t-law 196 



Mr. J. Parry on Baths and Washhouses 197 



Mr. John Patterson on Railway Accounts for 1808 just issued by the Board 

 of Trade, with suggestions for Railway Reform 197 



Mr. E. Renals on Mechanics' Institutions and the Elementary Education Bill 200 



Mr. Thomas Rose on the Utilization of Fibrous Cotton-seed 200 



Mr. Robert T. Saunders on the Physical Geography of the United States 

 of America as aSecting Agi-iculture, with suggestions for the Increase of 

 the Production of Cotton 201 



Mr. G. Johnstone Stoney on the Effect which a Mint Charge has upon the 

 value of Coins, to which is added a Proposition for securing at once some of 

 the advantages of International Coinage 201 



Mr. Thomas A. Welton on Immigration and Emigration, as affecting the 

 increase of Population in England and Wales 203 



Mr. William Westgauth on Decimal Money and a Common International 

 Unit 205 



Mr. R. Wilkinson on Statistics on Tobacco, its Use and Abuses 206 



Mr. 0. Williams on Local Taxation 207 



MECHANICAL SCIENCE. 



Messrs. Ashton and Storey on a New Steam-power Meter 208 



Admiral Sir Edward Belcher on the unprotected state of Liverpool 208 



Mr. A. W, Bickerton on a New Heat-Engine 208 



Mr. GusTAV BiscHOF, jun., on a New System of Testing the Quality of the 

 AfallAable Metals and Alloys, with Experimental Illustrations 209 



Gauge Railways ". -*- 



Mr, William Hoopee on the North-China and Japan Submarine Cables . . 219 



