VI. CONTENTS. 



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On the action of different Metals, Metallic Salts, Acids, and Oxidising 

 Agents on India-rubber. By William Thomson, F.R.S. Ed., etc., 

 and Frederick Lewis 266 



Notes on the Geological Section exposed in the Railway Cutting from 

 Levenshulme to Fallowfield. By William Brockbank, F.G.S., 

 F.L.S., and C. E. de Range, Assoc. Inst. C.E., F.G.^, F.R.G.S., 

 F. R. M.S., of H.M. Geological Survey. Parti. ...282 



On New Forms of Stereometers. By W. W. Haldane Gee, B. Sc. , F. C. S. , 

 and Arthur Harden, M.Sc, Ph. D ... 301 



On the number and formation of many valued Functions of x^XgXa x„_ 



which of any degree can be constructed upon any Group of those 

 elements, with exhibition of all the values of the Functions. By 

 Thos. p. Kirkman, M.A., F.R.S 315 



Notes on the Geological section exposed in the Railway Cutting from Levens- 

 hulme to Fallowfield. By Wm. Brogkbank, F.G.S., F.L.S., and 

 C. E. DE Range, Assoc. Inst. C.E., F.G.S., F.R.G.S., F.R.M.S., 

 of H. M. Geological Survey. Part II 339 



On the Comparison of Thermometers. By Thos. Ewan, Ph. D. , B. Sc. , 

 and W. W. Haldane Gee, B.Sc, F.C.S 357 



An Historical Account of the genus Za/2V'«^(Montfort)and its dependencies, 

 with descriptions of Eleven new species, and a Catalogue of Latirus . 

 zxA Peristernia. By James Cosmo Melvill, M. A., F.L.S. ... 365 



On the Occurrence of the Permians, Spirorbis Limestones, and Upper Coal 

 Measures at Frizington Hall, in the Whitehaven District. By 

 William Brogkbank, F.L.S., F.G.S, 418 



On the discovery of a new species of Fossil Fish {Strepsodus Brockbanki)^ 

 in the Upper Coal Measures Limestone of Levenshulme, No. 6 

 Group, from the Railway Cutting at Levenshulme, near Manchester. 

 By James W. Davis, F.G.S., &c. Communicated by William 

 Brogkbank, F.L.S., F.G.S 427 



Hynienoptera Orient alis ; or Contributions to a Knowledge of the Hymen - 

 optera of the Oriental Zoological Region. By P. Cameron. 

 Communicated by John Boyd. Part III 431 



PROCEEDINGS. 



Bailey, Charles, F.L.S. — Ox\ Boussingaultia baselloides ... .. 13 

 On the genus Feduu/aris .. . ... ... ... ... 28 



Bailey, Alderman W. H. — On Artificial Flowers from the Canary Islands 180 

 On William Sturgeon 180 



Barclay, Robert.— On ihe Philosophic Study of Money 230 



