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Section F.— ECONOMIC SCIENCE AND STATISTICS. 



THURSDAY, AUGUST 2. 



Page 

 Address by A. L. Bowlby, M.A., President of the Section 629 



1. Third Report ou the Accuracy and Comparability of British and Foreign 



Statistics of International Trade (p. 339) 642 



2. Theory of Distribution. By Professor F. Y. Edgewoeth, LL.D 642 



3. The Inhabited House Duty as a Graduated Tax. By James Bonae, 



M.A., LL.D 642 



FRIDAY, AUGUST 3. 



L The Influence of the Rate of Interest on Prices. By Profe.ssor Wick- 

 sell, PhD 643 



2. The Specie Reserve of the United Kingdom. By R. H. Inglis Pal- 



GEAVE,F.R.S 643 



3. The Gold Reserve. By D. Deumuond-Feasee 645 



4. Industrial Organisation in the Woollen and Worsted Industries of York- 



shire. By Professor J. H. CiAPHAM, M.A 645 



5. Cheap Railway Tickets for Workmen in Belgium. By Professor E. 



Mahaim, LL.D 646 



MONDAY, AUGUST 6. 



1. Some Notes on Railway Cost Statistics. By R. L. Wedgwood 647 



2. Some Principles of Freight-traffic Working. By W. T. STErnENSON, B. A. 648 



3. The Distribution of Population by Facilities of Rapid Transit. By 



Ltnden Macassey, M.A., LL.D 649 



4. Lead Mining in Yorkshire. By James Backhouse 649 



TUESDA Y, A UG UST 7. 



1. The Unemployed. By C. J. Hamilton, B.A 651 



2. Labour Exchanges and the Unemployed Problem. By W. H Beve- 



lUDGH, M.A., B.C.L 652 



3. Some recent Investigations in Home Work. By Mrs. J. Ramsay Mac- 



DONALD (353 



WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 8. 



1. Economic Theory and Proposals for Legal Minimum Wao-e. Bv H B 



Lees Smith, M.A " "653 



2. Labourers and the Land : Yorkshire. By Robeet E. Tuenbull . 654 



3. Monthly Index Numbers of Prices for 1906. By Claeence S. Howells 



and H. Stanley Jevons, M.A., B.Sc '. 655 



4. Industrial Betterment. By Maey E. Wood 656 



