CONTENTS. Xlll 



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Mr. Hyde Clarke on the Debts and Liabilities of Sovereign and Quasi- 

 Sovereign States due to Foreign Creditors 174 



Dr. Fabb on some Doctrines of Population 174 



Dr. W. Neilson Hancock on the Cost of adopting the System of Public 

 Prosecutors in England, as illustrated by the results of the Scotch and Irish 

 Systems 1' ^ 



on the Law of Succession to Property 176 



on the Importance of Increasing the Punishment 



of Habitual Drunkards, and of Punishing those who Seriously Injure their 



Children by what they spend in Drink 177 



, on the Assimilation of the Laws of the United 



Kingdom, with especial reference to the Town Laws of Scotland as to 



Ruinous Buildings 179 



M. Akin Kaboly on Rates of Interest and Banks of Issue 179 



Mr. Thomas Littleton on the Health of Plymouth 180 



Mr. Thomas Moegan on the Amendment of the Patent Laws, referring to 

 several points not hitherto discussed 181 ■ 



Dr. Lawson Tait on Hospital Mortality 181 



Rev. W. Tuckwell on School Banks 182 



Sir James Watson on Improving the Sanitary Condition of Large Towns . . 182 

 Sir Geobge Young, Bart., on a proposed Reduction to System of the ' Modi- 

 fications,' cr Privileges to work Overtime, which are granted under the 

 Factory Acts to particular Trades 185 



MECHANICAL SCIENCE. 



Address by Edwabd Woods, Esq., C.E., President of the Section. (Plates HI. 



& IV.) 186 



Captain Aynsley on the Experiments of the Boiler Committee of the 



Admiralty 199 



Professor Babff on the Preservation of Iron 199 



Mr. W. H. Bablow on the Upward Jets of Niagara 199 



Professor Gbaham Bell on Recent Experiments in Telephony 201 



Mr. G. D. Bellamy on the Plymouth Waterworks 201 



M. C. Bebgeeon on the Removal of Sand Bars at the Mouth of Harbours . . 201 



Mr. F. J. Bbamwell on the Circulation of Hot Water in Buildings 201 



Mr. J. H. Collins on Lode Mining in the West of England 201 



Mr. J. N. Douglas on the Eddystone Lighthouse 202 



Mr. William Fboude on the Resistance of Ships, as affected by length of 



parallel middle Body "92 



on a new Dynamometer for large Marine Engines .... 202 



Captain Douglas Galton on the Works now in course of execution for im- 

 proving the Navigation of one of the mouths of the Mississippi, under the 



direction of Mr. James Eads, C.E. . ; 202 



on the Jetties of the Mississippi 206 



Mr. Baldwin Latham on the Interception of Rainfall from Sewers 207 



on Indications of the Movement of Subterranean Water 



in the Chalk Formation. (Plate V.) 207 



Mr. Thomas Lidston on Thomas Newcomen's Steam-engine (1712) 217 



Professor M'Leod on the Cycloscope 217 



