Fourth Series. Vol. 4 : No. 5. 



MEMOIRS AND PROCEEDINGS 



OF 



THE MANCHESTER 

 LITERARY & PHILOSOPHICAL 



SOCIETY. 



1890-91. 



CONTENTS. 



Proceedings pp. 353, 412, 414, 415 



Microscopical and Natural History Section - - - - - p. 430 



Physical and Mathematical Section - - - - - - -p. 338 



Memoirs : — 



On the number and formation of many-valued Functions of 



X1X2X3 Xk, which of any degree can be constructed upon 



any Group of those elements, with exhibitions of all the 

 values of the Functions. By Thos. P. Kirkroan, mJ^., 



FRS. p. 315 



Notes on the Geological section exposed in the Railway Cutting 



from Levenshulme to Fallowfield. By Wm. Brockbank, 



F.G.S., F.L.S., and C. E. de Ranee, Assoc. Inst. C.E., 



F.G.S., F.R.G.S., F.R.M.S.,of H.M. Geological Survey p. 339 



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



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

 An Historical Account of the genus Latirus (Montfort) and its 

 dependencies, with descriptions of Eleven new species, and 

 a Catalogue of Latirus and Peristemia. By James Cosmo 

 Melvill, M.A., F.L.S. With Plate - - - - - p. 365 



On the occurrence of the Permians, Spirorbis Limestones, and 

 Upper Coal Measures at Frizington Hall in the Whitehaven 

 District. By William Brockbank, F.L.S., F.G.S. - - p. 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 Brockbank, F.L.S., F.G.S. p. 427 



Hjrmenoptera Orientalis ; or Contributions to a knowledge of 

 the Hymenoptera of the Oriental Zoological Region. By 

 P. Cameron. Communicated by John Boyd. With Plate - p. 431 



Annual Report of the Council - - - p. 482 



Treasurer's Accounts - - - - p. 490 



Annual Report of the Council of the Microscopical and Natural 



History Section ...------. p. 493 



List of the Council and Members p. 496 



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