CONTENTS. XXI 



Page 

 3 *Tlie Gold Standard. By Hon. Geoege Peel 777 



4. The Menace to English Industry from the Competition of Silver-using 

 Countries. By R. S. Gundey 777 



5.. On the Preservation of the National Parochial Registers. By H. Paton, ■ 

 M.A 778 



MONBA Y, SEPTEMBER 16. 



1. *Agricullure in Suffolk. By Captain E. G. Pketyman, M.P 779 



2. Agriculture of Suffolk from a Tenant's Point of View. By Heeman 



Biddell 779 



3. Co-operative Rural Banks. By Haeold E. Mooee, E.S.1 779 



4. Go-operation in the Service of Agriculture. By 11. AV. Wolff 780 



TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 17. 



1. The Probability of a Cessation of the Growth of Population in England 



and Wales before 1951. By Edwin Oannan 780 



2. On the Correlation of the Rate of General Pauperism with the Proportion 



of Out-relief given. By G. U. Yule 781 



3. *The State and Workers on the Land. By Rev. J. Feome Wilkinson.... 781 



4. *The National Value of Organised I^abour and Co-operation among 

 Women.' By Mrs. Bedford Fenwick 781 



Section G.— MECHANICAL SCIENCE. 



' THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 12. 



Address by Professor L. F. Veenon Haecourt, M.A.,M.Inst.C.E., President 



of the Section 782 



1. Light Railways as an [Assistance to Agriculture. By Major-General 

 Wbbbee,C.B.,R.E., M.Inst. C.E 793 



2. The Gobert Freezing Process for Shaft-sinking and Tunnelling under 



Rivers. By A. Gobbet 794 



3. *East Anglian Coal Exploration, Description of Machinery employed. By 



J. Vivian 795 



4. The Effect of Wind and Atmospheric Pressure on the Tides. By W. H, 

 Wheelee, M.Inst.C.E 795 



FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 13. 



1. *Notes on Autumn Floods of 1894. By G. J. Stmons, F.R.S 796 



2. *0n Weirs in Rivers. By R. C. Napier and F. G. M. Stoney 796 



3. An Experiment in Organ -blowing. By W. Anderson, C.B., D.C.L., ^ 



F.R.S ^^^ 



4. "The Growth of the Port of Harwich. By W, Birt 796 



