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faptain Rokeby ou the Survej^ for a Telegrapli-line between Berber and 



Soualdm ^'"^ 



Major St. John on Trade-routes in Persia 173 



Major Evan Smith on tlie Livingstone East-Coast Aid Expedition 173 



on the Trade of the East-Afiican Coast 173 



Mr. J. Thomson on the Gorges and Rapids of the Upper Yangtsze 173 



ECONOMIC SCIENCE and STATISTICS. 



Address by the Right Hon. W. E. Forsteh, M.P., President of the Section. . 174 



Major-General Sir James Alexandeb on tlie Use and Abuse of Peat 183 



Dr. C. E. Appleton on some of the Economical Aspects of Endowments of 



Education and Original Research 183 



Mr. S. C. T. Babtley on the Poor-Law and its Effect on Thrift 185 



Mr. J. Arthur Binns on Benefit Building Societies 185 



Mr. "William Botly on Dwellings for the Industrial Classes 186 



Mr. Hyde Clarke on the Influence of Large Centres of Population on Intel- 

 lectual Manifestation 186 



Mr. F. Hahn Danchell on Peat .^ 186 



Mr. Frank P. Fellows's Statistics and Observations on the National Debt 

 and our Disbursements from the Revolution in 1688 to the present time, 

 showing the advisability of ascertaining our Annual Governmental Capital 

 and Current Expenditm'e 186 



Mr. J. G. Fitch on the Savings-Bauk in the School 187 



Mr. Thomas IIaig on the East Morley and Bradford Savings-Bank 188 



Mr. T. G. P. Hallett on the Income-Tax Question 188 



Mr. James Hanson on Educational Statistics of Bradford 189 



Mr. "W, ILiSTiNGS on Postal Reform 191 



Mr. B, Haughton on Railways Amalgamated in Competing Groxips 191 



Mr. W. D, Henderson on Commercial Panics 193 



Mr. Samuel Jubb on the Shoddy Trade 194 



Mrs. E. M. King on Confederated Homes and Cooperative Housekeeping. . . . 195 



Professor Leone Levi on the Effect of the Increase of Prices of certain Neces- 

 saries of Life on the Cost of Livings and its Relation to the Rates of Wages 

 and Salaries 196 



Mr. J. M. D. Meiklejohn on the Economic Use of Endowments 196 



Mr. W. Morris on Capital and Labour 196 



Mr. Archibald Neill on the Bradford Building Trades 196 



Mr. R. H. Inglis Palgrave on the Relation of the Banking Reserve of the 

 Bank of England to the Cm-rent Rate of Interest 199 



Major-General Millington Synge on Puritv and Impurity in the Use and 

 Abuse of Water .' ' 200 



