XXll CONTENT.*. 



TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 11. 



Page 



1. An improved Seismograph. By E. A. Cowpee, M.Inst.C.E 818 



2. The Friction of Metal Coils. By Professor H. S. Hele Shaw and E. 

 Shaw 819 



3. Steam Engine Diagrams. By M. F. Fitzgerald 819' 



4. The Efficiency of Steam at High Pressures and the Carnot Theorem. By 



AV. WoRBT Beattmont, M.Inst.C.E 820- 



5. Rerolving Sails, or Air-propellers. By H. 0. Vogt 820 



6. A new Sphere Plauimeter. By Professor 11. S. Hele Shaw 821 



WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 12. 



1. Underground Railway Communication in great Cities. By Colonel Row- 



land R. Hazard " 821 



2. Transmission of Motion and Power, By J. Walter Pearse 823 



3. An Annual AVinding Clock, with Torsion Pendulum. Bv W. H. 



Douglas " 823 



4. A new form of Air-compressor for Variable Pressures. By H. Da vet, 

 M.Inst.C.E 824 



5. On controlling the direction of Rotation of a Dynamo. By A. AVinter... 824 



Section H.— ANTHROPOLOGY. 



THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 6. 



Address by Lieut.-General Pitt-Rivers, D.C.L., F.R.S., F.G.S., F.S.A., 



President of the Section 825 



1. Report of the Committee for investigating the effects of different occupa- 



tions and employments on the Phvsical Development of the Human 

 Body '. '. 836 



2. Second Report of the Committee for ascertaining and recording the locali- 

 ties in the British Islands in which evidences of the existence of Pre- 

 historic Inhabitants of the country are found 836 



3. The Constitutional Characteristics of those who dwell in large Towns, as 

 relating to Degeneracy of Race. By G. B. Barron, M.D., L.R.C.S.E., 

 M.R.C.S., Hon. Surgeon-Major 836 



4. The Physique of the Swiss as influenced by Race and by Media. By Dr. 

 Beddoe, F.R.S., V.P.A.1 837 



5. On Colour-blindness. By Karl Grossmann, M.D 838 



FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 7. 



1. On Human Bones discovered by General Pitt-Rivers at A\'oodcuts, 

 Eotherley, &c. By Dr. Beddoe, F.R.S 839 



2. Human Remains from Wiltshire. By J. G. Garson, M.D., A' .P.A.I 839 



3. On a Method of investigating the Development of Institutions ; applied to 

 Laws of Marriage and Descent. By Edward B. Tylor, F.R.S 840 



4. Australian Message-sticks and Messengers. By A. W. Howitt, F.G.S ... 842 



5. Social Regulations m Melanesia. By the Rev. R. H. Codrington, D.D. 843 



