CONTENTS. Xlll 



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Dr. Charles T. Beke on the Possibility of Turning the Waters of the Nile 

 into the Red Sea 105 



Commander Lindsay Bbike, R.N., on the Eruption at Santorin, and its Pre- 

 sent Condition 107 



Mr. P. B. Du Chaillu on the Physical Geography and Tribes of Western 

 Equatorial Africa 107 



Dr. Chabnock on Andorra 107 



Mr. John Cra'vvfuhd on Ctesar's Account of Britain and its Inhabitants .... 107 



on the Migration of Cultivated Plants with reference to 



Ethnology 107 



on the Invention and History of Written Languages . . 108 



Ml". R. Dunn on some of the Bearings of Ai-chseology upon certain Ethnologi- 

 cal Problems and Researches 108 



Sir Walter Elliott on a Proposed Ethnological Congress at Calcutta .... 109 



Col. F. J. Goldsmid's Notes on Eastern Persia and Western Beloochistan . . 110 



Mr. G. Grove's Report on the Palestine Exploration Fund 110 



Mr. Henry H. Howorth on some New Facts in Celtic Ethnology Ill 



Mr. W. H. Johnson's Explorations from Leh, in Cashmere, to Khotan, in Chi- 

 nese Tartary Ill 



Mr. R. H. Major on Priority in Discovery of the Madeira Group 112 



Dr. R. J. Mann on the Kaffirs of Natal 112 



on the Physical Geography and Climate of Natal 113 



Mr. C. R. Markham on the Aleppy Mud Bank 113 



Sir R. I. Murchison on the Reported Discovery of the Remains of Leich- 

 hardt in Australia 114 



Mr. W. G. PAxaRAVE on North and South Arabia 114 



Mr. Rowland William Payne on the Transvaal District of South Airica . . 114 



Mr. J. Reddie on the Various Theories of Man's Past and Present Condition 115 



Dr. H. Ronay on the Voguls 115 



Dr. Ryan on the North-east Province of Madagascar 116 



Mr. J. Thomson's Visit to the ruined Temples of Cambodia 116 



Col. Tremenheere's Notes on the Physical Geography of the Lower Indua. . 117 



Mr. F. Whymper on the Progress of the Russo-American Telegraph Expe- 

 dition via Behi-ing's Straits 117 



ECONOMIC SCIENCE and STATISTICS. 



Addre.ss by Professor James E. Thorold Rogers, M.A., President of the 

 Section jj7 



Mr. Thomas Browne on the Transfer of Real Property 124 



The Rev. William Caine on some of the Results of the Free Licensing System 

 in Liverpool during the last four years 124 



Dr. Daubeny on the Nimiber of Graduates in Ai-ts and Medicine at Oxfoi-d 

 for the last two centuiies , 127 



Mr. W. Felkin on the Lace and Hosiery Trades of Nottingham 128 



Mr. Q. Bell Galloway on Inventors and Inventions 131 



