CONTENTS. XVll 



Section F.— ECONOMIC SCIENCE AND STATISTICS. 



THUllSDA Y, A UG UST 2 1. 



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1. Report of tlie Autliropometric Committee 630 



2. State of Crime in England, Scotland, and Ireland in 1880. Bv Professor 

 Leone Levi, F.S.A .". 630 



3. Report on the workings of the proposed revised New Code, and of other - 

 legislation affecting the teaching of Science in Elementary Schools 630 



4. Statistical Account of Railway Accidents for the year 1881. By the 

 Rev. Daniel Ace, D.D., F.R.A.S 630 



5. Agricultural Statistics, Tenure, and Aspects. By William Botlt, 

 M.R.A.S.E 631 



FRIDA Y, A UG UST 23. 



Address Ijy the Right Hon. G. Sclater-Booth, M.P., F.R.S., President of 



the Section 631 



1. On the Revenue from the Taxation of Alcohol. By George Baden 

 Powell, M.A.> F.R.A.S., F.S.S 636 



2. On the Taxation of Alcohol. By Stephen Bourne, F.S.S 637 



3. The Influences of the Beer Duty. By H. Sxopes, F.G.S 638 



4. The North Sea Fisheries. By 0. T. Olsen, F.R.A.S., F.R.G.S 640 



SATURDAY, AUGUST 26. 



1. On some Influences affecting the Progress of our Shipping and Carrying 

 Trade. By Hyde Clarke, F.S.S 640 



2. Our Sailors — for Defence and Commerce. At Home and Abroad. By 



C. Pfotjnbes, F.R.G.S 641 



MOXDAY, AUGUST 28. 



1. Report of the Committee for continuing the inquiry into and completing 

 the report upon the present Appropriation of Wages and other sources 

 of Income, and considering how far it is consonant with the Economic 

 Progress of the United Kingdom 642 



2. The Abstract Theory of Rent. By F. Y. Edgeworth 642 



3. The Ricardo Theory of Rent. By Alfred Milnes, M.A., F.S.S 642 



4. On Artisan Education. By Professor Silvantts P. Thompson, B.A., D.Sc. 643 



TUESDAY, AUGUST 29. 



1. Railways — a Plea for Unity of Administration. By Edward J. 



Watherston 643 



2. Cottagers and Open Wastes in the District of the New Forest. By 



G. E. Briscoe Eyre (a Verderer) 645 



3. On Decimal Coinage and Measures in America. By R. de Tracy 

 Gould 653 



4. On a proposed International Congress to diminish the Casualties at Sea. 



By Don Arturo de Marcoartu 653 



1882. a 



