Xiv CONTENTS. 



Pass 



Mr. James Heyavood on the Subjects required in the Classical Tripos Examin- 

 ation and in the Trinity College Fellowship Examination at Cambridge. . . . lol 



Mr. .1. G. Joyce on the Practicability of employing a Common Notation for 

 Electric Telegraphy 131 



Professor Leone Levi on the State and Prospects of the Hate of Discount 

 with reference to the recent Monetary Crisis 131 



Mr. E. Renals on the Influence of Science Classes in Mechanics' Institutions 1.31 



Mr. Geobge Senior on the Diminution of Accidents in Coal-Mines since the 

 Appointment of Government Inspectors 133 



The Rev. C. Sewell on Hindrances to the Success of Popular Education . . 133 



Colonel Sykes on Statistics of the Charitable, Educational, Industrial, and 

 Public Institutions founded by the Native Gentry of India during the last 

 five years 133 



— on Modes of Banking in America, Manchooria, and China . . 134 



Mr. Charles Tebbutt on the Violation of the Principles of Economic Science 

 caused by the Law of Distraint for Rent 13.5 



Mr. Joseph White on the Statistics of the General Hospital, near Nottingham 135 



Mr. Wilkinson on the Intoxicating Liquors consumed by the People of the 

 United Kingdom in 1865 137 



Mr. F. .1. Wilson on a National Bank and Payment of the National Debt . . 137 



on the Occupation and Ownership of Waste Lands 137 



on the Classification of the v.arious Occupations of the 



People 138 



Rev. A. W. WoRTHiNGTON OR the Disproportion between the Male and 



Female Population of some Manufacturing and other Towns 138 



MECHANICAL SCIENCE. 



Addi-ess by the President, Thomas Hawksley, V.P. Inst. C.E., F.G.S 139 



Admiral Sir E. Belcher on the Application of the Expansive Power of 



moistened Vegetable Matter to the raismg of Weights 140 



M. M. Bergeron on a System of Pneumatic Propulsion 140 



Mr. N. P. Burgh on the Action and Effect of Flame in INlarine Boilers 140 



Mr. W. E. Carrett on an Hydraulic Coal-cutting Machine 141 



Mr. John Daglish on the Counterbalancing of Winding Engines for Coal 



Mines 141 



Mr. H. DiRCKS on Steam-Boiler Explosions, with Suggestions for their Inves- 

 tigation 1*1 



Mr. William Fairbairn's description of the Means employed for removing 

 and replacing in a new position the Iron Columns of a Fireproof Cotton Mill 141 



Mr. G. Fawcus's Improvement in Pontoon Trains 143 



Mr. J. B. Fell on Locomotive Engines and Carriages on the Central Rail 

 Sj-stem for working Steep Gradients and Shai-p Curves, as employed on the 



]SIont Cenis 1-13 



:Mr, W. D. Gainsforb on an Invention for the purpose of attaining gi-eater 



Adhesion between the Driving-wheel and the Rail 143 



'.s Description of a Newly-invented System of Ordnance 144 



Captain Dovglas Galton on the Chabners Target 144 



