CONTENTS, XV 



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ECONOMIC SCIENCE aot) STATISTICS. 



Address by the Right Honourable Sir Stafford Northcote, Bart., C.B., 

 U.C.L., M.P., President of tlie Section 173 



Mr. William Botley on the Condition of the Agiicultural Labourer 179 



Sir John Bowring on the Devonshire Association for the AdTancement of 

 Science and Art 179 



on Penal Law as applied to Prison Discipline 180 



Mr. Ealph Brandon on some Statistics of Railways in their Relation to the 

 Public 180 



Mr. Hyde Clarke on the Want of Statistics on the Question of Mixed Races 181 



on the Distinction between Rent and Land-Tax in India . 181 



's Note on Variations in Rapidity and Rate of Human 



Thought 181 



Je.sse Collings on some Statistics of the National Education -League 182 



Mr. J. Bailey Denton on the Technical Education of the Agricultiu-al La- 

 bomer 182 



Mr. Henry Dihcks's Statistics of Invention illustrating the Policy of a Pa- 

 tent-Law 182 



Dr. W. Farr on International Coinage 18.3 



Mr. Frank P. Fellowes on our National Accounts 190 



Rev. Canon Girdlestone on the Maintenance of Schools in Rural Districts 191 



Mr. John Glover on the Decline of Shipbuilding on the Thames 191 



Mr. Archibald Hamilton on the Economic Progress of New Zealand 192 



Mr. W. Neilson Hancock's Accoimt of the System of Local Taxation in 

 Ireland I93 



Mr. J. Heywood on the Examination Subjects for Admission into the Col- 

 lege for Women at Hitchin I95 



on Municipal Government for Canadian Indian Reserves . . 19-5 



Mr. James Hunt Holley's Remarks on the Need of Science for the Deve- 

 lopment of Agriculture I95 



Prof. Leone Lfa't on the Economic Condition of the Agricultural Labourer 

 in England I95 



on Agricultiu-al Economics and Wages 195 



Mr. R. Main on Naval Finance 196 



Dr. R. J. Mann on Assisted Emigration 196 



Mr. F. Purdy's Statistical Notes on some Experiments in Agriculture 197 



on the Pressure of Taxation on Real Property 199 



Mr. W. H. Sankey on Weights and Measures 199 



Mr. James Stark's Contributions to Vital Statistics 199 



Mr. P. M. Tait on the Population and Mortality of Bombay, derived from the 

 last Census and the Reports of the Health OiEcers of Bombay to the latest 

 dates X99 



Rev. W. TuCKWELL on the Method of Teaching Physical Science 199 



MECHANICAL SCIENCE. 

 Address by C. William SiemenS; F.R.S., President of the Section 200 



