CONTENTS. XV 



Mrs. William Grey on the Staudard of National Education , , . . 213 



Mr. P. Hallett on Income Fallacies and some of their Consequences 215 



Professor W. Stanlky Jevons on the Progress of the Coal Question 216 



on the Influence of the Sun-spot Period upon 



the Price of Corn 217 



Mr. D. Mackintosh on th" prevailing Mode of Preparation for Competitive 

 Examinations 217 



Dr. F. J. Mouat on the Value of European Life in India in its Social, Poli- 

 tical, and Economic Aspects 217 



Mr. C. O. Groom Napier on Legislative Protection to the Birds of Europe . 217 



Mrs. Bladex Neill on the Acclimatization of the Silkworm 218 



IVL-. Thomas Francis Peacock on Building Societies and the Act of 1874. , 218 



Miss A. M. Priestman on the Industrial Position of Women as affected by their 

 exclusion from the Suffrage 218 



^[r. D. A. Spalding on Free Trade in Laboiu- 220 



Miss Stamp on Statistics of Free Public Libraries 220 



Mr. E. Vivian on the Comparative Mortalitj^ of Abstainers and Non- Abstainers 

 from Alcoholic Liquors 220 



Mr. W. Westgarth on the Science of Capital and Money 220 



MECHANICAL SCIENCE. 



Address by William Froude, C.E., M.A., F.R.S., President of the 

 Section 221 



Mr. Frederick Ashmead on the Drainage of the City and County of Bristol 240 



Mons. C. Bergeron on the Prevention of Sand Bars at the Mouth of Harbours 243 



Mr. Walter R. Browne on Roberts's Patent Communicator for Railway 

 Trains 243 



Mr. James Brunlees on the Bristol Port and Channel Dock at Avonmouth 

 near Bristol ' qj - 



Colonel Carrington on Chrome Steel 245 



Mr. W. B. Clegram on Sharpness Docks 24.5 



Mr. J. D. CoGAN on Toughened Glass 24.5 



Messrs. Crichton and Craig on a System of Audible Signals for Railways. . 24 



Mr. William Denny on tlie Trials of Screw Steam-Ships 246 



Mr. Francis Fox on the Bristol joint Station 248 



Mr. H. Handyside on a Steel Gradient Formation •. . 248 



Mr. R, R. Harper on Block-signalling on Railways ; 248 



Dr. J. HopKiNSON on Improvements in the Clockwork of Revolvino- Lio-ht- 

 houses ° ^ ., JO 



Professor Hull's Scheme of Water-supplv for tlie Villages and Countrv 



Parishes of the Central and Eastern Counties of England ". 249 



Mr. Henry Masters on a Sewer-Trap oqq 



Mr. Charles Richardson on tho Severn Tunnel 2oO 



~" on the Tidal Scour in the Severn 250 



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