Vlll CONTENTS. 



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Mr. Francis Clark's Contributions to the Educational Statistics of 

 Birmingham, by a Local Committee Ill 



Mr. W. R. Greg's Report on the State of the Working Classes in part of 

 Rutlandshire 112 



Mr. Francis Clark's Contributions to the Commercial Statistics of 

 Birmingham, prepared by a Local Committee 114 



Mr. Francis Clark's Contributions to the Medical Statistics of Bir- 

 mingham, prepared by a Local Committee 115 



Mr. G. R. Porter's ' Suggestions in favour of the Systematic Collection 

 of the Statistics of Agriculture.' 116 



Mr. R. W. Rawson on the Criminal Statistics of England and Wales . 117 



Rev. Professor Powell on Academic Statistics, showing the proportion 

 of Students in the University of Oxford who proceed on to Degrees . 119 



Mr. W. L. Wharton's Notice of the Progress of the Inquiries made by 

 the Committee instituted at the Meeting of the British Association in 

 Newcastle, when the sum of 50Z. was placed at the disposal of Mr. 

 Cargill, Mr. Wharton, Mr. Buddie, Mr. Forster, Mr. Wilson, and Mr. 

 Johnston, for the purpose of making inquiries into the Statistics of the 

 Mining Districts of Northumberland, Durham, and Yorkshire . . .120 



Accountof theCirculatingLibraries in the Borough of Kingston-upon-HuU 120 



Mr. Fripp on the condition of the Working Classes in the City of Bristol 121 



MECHANICAL SCIENCE. 



Mr. J. Scott Russell on the most Economical Proportion of Power to 



Tonnage in Steam Vessels 124 



Mr. E. Hodgkinson's Experiments to ascertain the Power of different 



species of Wood to resist a force tending to crush them 125 



Mr. Wm. Fairbairn's Experiments upon the effects of Weights acting 



for an indefinite time upon bars of Iron 126 



Mr. John Isaac Hawkins on Paving Roads and Streets with blocks of 



Wood, placed in a vertical position 127 



Mr. G. Cottam on the Marquis of Tweeddale's Patent Brick and Tile 



Machine 128 



Mr. G. Cottam's Description of a new Railway Wheel 128 



Dr. Lardner's Notice of an Apparatus for Use in Working Railways . 129 



Mr. GossAGE on a new Rotatory Steam-engine 129 



Mr. Davies's Description of a Machine for cutting the teeth of Bevel 



Wheels 129 



Mr. Player on the application of Anthracite Coal to the Blast Furnace, 



