CONTENTS. 



3. Report of the Committee on the Regulation of Wages by means of Lists 

 in the Cotton Industry 848 



4. Expenditure of Wages. By D. Chadwick 849 



6. History of the Cotton Trade. By W. Andrews 849 



TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 6. 



1. Gold and Silver ; their Geological Distribution and their probable Future 

 Production. By W. Toplet, F.G.S 849 



2. An Attempt to bring the Issue between those who are called ' Mono- 

 metallists ' and those who are called ' Bi-metallists ' into such Terms that 

 an Intelligent Public Opinion may be formed thereon. By Edward 

 Atkinson 849 



3. On the Solution of the Anglo-Indian Monetary Problem. By Professor 



L. Walras 849 



WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 7. 



1. Food as an Aid to Elementary Education. By Geoege Herbert 

 Sargant 851 



2. Phthisis Centres in Manchester and Salford. By Arthttr Ransome 852 



3. On some important Statistics relating to the Silk Industry. By Thomas 

 Wardle 852 



4. On Bimetallism. By J. Nicholson 852 



5. On the Position of Economics in Holland. By Professor Geeven 852 



6. Socialism. By Professor W. Graham 852 



7. On the Increase of ^^'ealth and Population in Lancashire. By William 



E. A. Axon 852 



Section G.— MECHANICAL SCIENCE. 



THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 1. 



Address by Professor Osborne Reynolds, M.A., LL.D., F.R.S., M.Inst.C.E., 



President of the Section 855 



1. The Ii-on Mines of Bilbao. By Jeremiah Head, M.Inst.C.E 861 



2. Improvements in the Manufacture of Portland Cement. By Feedk. 

 Ransome 864 



3. The Severn Tunnel. By T. A. Walker 865. 



FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 2. 



1. On certain Laws relating to the Regime of Rivers and Estuaries, and on 

 the possibility of Experiments on a small scale. By Professor Osborne 

 Reynolds, LL.D., F.R.S 867 



2. Improvement of the Access to the Mersey Ports. By W. Shelford, 

 M.Inst.C.E 867 



3. The Manchester Ship Canal. By E. Leader Williams 868 



4. Experiments on the Mechanical Equivalent of Heat on a large scale. By 



E. A. Cowper and W. Anderson 869 



5. What is a Drought ? By G. J. Symons, F.R.S 869 



