XIV CONTENTS. 



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Dr. W. Lauder Lindsay on the Obstacles to the Utilization of New-Zealand 

 Flax 141 



Mr. Patbick Matthew on Employer and Employed — Capital and Labour . . 143 



Mr, Chables C. Maxwell on the Confectionery and Marmalade Trade of 

 Dundee 14.3 



Mr. James Oldham on the Utilization or more Profitable Employment of 

 Male Convicts 144 



Mr. James G. Obchab on the Engineering Manufacture of Dundee 144 



Mr. Henby J. Keb Pobteb on the Prevalence of " Spedalske," or Leprosy, 

 in the Kingdom of Norway 144 



Mr. E. Renals on Ai-bitration in the Nottingham Hosiery Manufacture .... 145 



Mr. A. Robeetson's Statistics of the Social Condition of Dimdee 145 



Professor J. E. T. Rogees on the Funds available for developing the Machinery 

 of Education 145 



Colonel Sykes's Analysis of the Report upon the state of the Empire of 

 France, presented to the Senate and Legislative Body, February 1867 .... 145 



Mr. P. M. Tait on the Population and Mortality of Calcutta 145 



Mr. P. H. Thoms's Observations on Community of Language, and Uniformity 

 of Notation, Weights, Measures, and Coinage 146 



Mr. Alexandeb J. Wabden on the Linen Manufacture in Dundee and its 

 Neighbourhood 146 



Mr. A. Stephen Wilson on the Measure and Value of Oats 147 



Mr. James Yates's Reasons why the Office of Warden of the Standards 

 should include Standard Weights and Measures of the Metric System in 

 addition to those of the Imperial Weights and Measures 147 



Mr. James Yeaman's Notes on Seal- and Whale-Fishings as prosecuted by 

 the North-Sea Fleet, hailing from Dundee 148 



MECHANICAL SCIENCE. 



Address by Professor W. J. Macqtjobn Rankine, C.E., LL.D., F.R.SS. 

 L. & E., &c., President of the Section 149 



Mr. J. Van-Nobden Bazalgette on the Difficulty of obtaining Local Infor- 

 mation after reaching the Summits of Eminences from which extensive 

 Views are obtained 152 



Admiral Sir E. Belcheb on the Methods for Testing the Speed of Vessels 

 over the Measured Mile 153 



The Rev. P. Bell on Reaping-Machinery 153 



Mr. James K. Oaied on an Iron Camb for Power Looms 153 



Mr. Latimee Claek on the Birmingham Wire Gauge 153 



Mr. J. EcKEESLEY on J. R. Swan's Improved Calcining IGlns n . . . . 153 



Dr. J. D. Evebett on the Results of Experiments on the Rigidity of Glass, 



Brass, and Steel 153 



Mr. John Fbenie on the Iron and Steel shown at the Paris Exhibition .... 154 



Dr. C. Le Neve Fosteb's Account of Bergstroem's Boring Machine, used at 

 the Perseberg Mines, Sweden 164 



Mr. Gbobge Fawcus on the Stowage of Ships' Boats 154 



Ml-. G. B. Galloway on the Application of the Funds derived from Patent- 

 Fees 154 



