XV111 CONTESTS. 



MONDAY, AUGUST 19, 1878. 



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1. Report of Committee on Oommou Measure of Value in Direct Taxation ... 660 



2. The Periodicity of Commercial Crises, and its Physical Explanation. By 

 Professor W. Stanley Jevons, F.R.S 666 



3. The Definitions of Political Economy. By Professor Maguike 667 



4. Some Statistical Researches into the Poor Removal Question, with special 

 reference to the Removal of Persons of Irish Birth from Scotland. By 



W. Neilson Hancock, LL.D 667 



5. On the Education and Training of the Insane. By Joseph Laloe, M.D., 

 Resident Medical Superintendent, Richmond District Lunatic Asylum, 

 Dublin 667 



TUESDAY, AUGUST 20, 1878. 



1. Some Remarks on the Desirability of Simultaneous and Identical Legisla- 



tion for England and Ireland. By H. L. Jephson 673 



2. On the Importance of raising Ireland to the Level of England and Scotland 

 in the matter of Industrial Schools and Compulsory Education. By W. 

 Neilson Hancock, LL.D 674 



3. On some Economic Fallacies of Trades Unionists. By Professor J. J. 



Shaw 675 



WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 21, 1878. 



1. On the Social Aspects of Trades Unionism. By J. H. M. Campbell 676 



2. On Adam Smith's Theory of Rent. By W. D. Henderson 677 



Section G.— MECHANICAL SCIENCE. 



THURSDAY, AUGUST 15, 1878. 

 Address by Mr. Edward Easton, C.E., President of the Section 679 



1. On RiverControl. By J. Clarke Hawkshaw 687 



2. On the Effect of River or Arterial Drainage Works upon River Floods. 



By James Dillon, Mem. Inst. C.E.I 687 



3. On the Control of Rivers. By W. Shelford, M. Inst. C.E., F.G.S 6f)0 



4. On Movable and Fixed Weirs, with reference to the Improvement of the 



Navigation, Mill Power, and Drainage of Flood Waters of Rivers, with 

 especial Notice of the River Shannon. By J. Neville, C.E., M.R.I.A., 

 Dundalk 691 



5. The Rainfall of Ireland. By G. J. Stmons, F.R.S 692 



6. On the Hydrogeologieal Survey of England. By Joseph Lucas, F.G.S... . 692 



FBIDAY, AUGUST 16, 1878. 



1. On the Drainage of the Fenland considered in relation to the Conservancy 



of the Rivers of Great Britain. By W. H. Wheeler, M. Inst. C.E 693 



2. On the Discharge of Sewage in Tidal Rivers. By Henry Law, Mem. 



I.CE r. ! 695 



3. Recent Improvements in the Port of Dublin. By B. B. Stoney 696 



