Xxii CONTENTS. 



" MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 16. 



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1. The Relations between Industrial Conciliation and Social Eeform. By 



L. L.Price, M.A 706 



2. The DiiEculties of Arbitration. By Robert Spence Waxson, LL.D. ... 707 



3. On the Relation between Wages and the Remainder of the Economic 

 Product. By SiDNEr Webb, LL.B 708 



4. Report of the Committee on the teaching of Science in Elementary 

 Schools 709 



5. Apprenticeship in the Engineering and Shipbuilding Trades. By Sir 

 Benjamin Browne, D.C.L., M.Inst.C.E 709 



6. Technical Education. By Dr. J. H. Rutherford 710 



7. On Manual, or some form of Technical Instruction a necessary element of a 

 Compulsory System of Education. By Edward J. Watherston 712 



TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 17. 



1. On the Rate of Production of Coal during the present Century. By Pro- 

 fessor Edward Hull, LL.D., F.R.S 713 



2. Poor Law Progress and Reform, exemplified in the Administration of an 

 East London Union. By William Vallance 713 



3. Poor Law Administration. By the Rev. W. Bury 715 



4. A National Pension Fund. By the Rev. W. Moore Ede, M.A 715 



5. Home Colonisation. By the Rev. Herbert V. Mills 717 



6. Third Report of the Committee on the best methods of ascertaining and 

 measuring Variations in the "Value of the Monetary Standard 717 



7. Report of the Committee appointed to inquire and report as to the Statis- 

 tical Data available for determining the amount of the Precious Metals 

 in use as Money in the principal Countries, the chief forms in which the 

 Money is employed, and the amount annually used in the Arts 717 



Section G.— MECHANICAL SCIENCE. 

 THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 12. 



Address by W. Anderson, M.Inst.C.E., President of the Section 718 



1. Experiments upon the Transmission of Power by Compressed Air (Popp's 

 System). By Professor A. B. W. Kennedy, F.R.S., M.Inst.C.E 732 



2. Water-gas in the United States. By Alex. C. Humphreys, M.E 732 



FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 13. 



1. An Apparatus for providing a Steady Platform for Guns, Search Lights, 



lelescopes, &c. ByBEAUCHAMP Tower 735 



2. On the Vibration of RaUway Trains. By Professor John Milne, F.R.S. 736 



3. Machinery for the Manufacture of Bottles. By H. M. Ashley 736 



4. The Utilisation of Fibrous Peat for the Manufacture of Brown Paper, 



W rappers, and Millboards. By J. A. London 737 



5. Hydraulic Apparatus for Railway Signalling. By C. E. Carr 737 



