CONTENTS. 



Art. XIV. On the Ethnography of Akkrah and Adampe, 

 Gold Coast, Western Africa. By William 

 Daniell, M.D., F.R.G.S., Assistant-Surgeon 

 to the Forces, &c. (Communicated by the Eth- 

 nological Society), .... 



120 



XV. On the Supposed Analogy between the Life of an 

 Individual and the Duration of a Species. By 

 Edward Forbes, Esq., &c. (Communicated 

 by the Author), 130 



XVI. Lectures on the Results of the Great Exhibition 

 of 1851, delivered before the Society of Arts, 

 Manufactures, and Commerce, at the sugges- 

 tion of His Royal Highness Prince Albert, Pre- 

 sident of the Society, . . . . 135 



I. Sir Henry de la Beche. — 1. Amount of British 

 Iron. 2. Desilverising of Lead. 3. Plum- 

 bago, 136-137 



II. Professor Owen. — 1. Geology of the Sheep. 

 2. Baleen. 3. Ivory. 4. Feathers and Down. 

 5. General Remarks on Materials from the 

 Vegetable and Animal Kingdom, 137—144 



III. Br Lyon Playfair. — 1. Iron Smelting. 



2. Soap. 3. Perfumery, . . 144-147 



IV. Professor Lindley. — 1. Australian Wheat. 

 2. Tobacco. 3. Typha Bread. 4. Preserva- 

 tion of Vegetables in long voyages. 5. Pre- 

 served Meats, .... 147—154 



V. Professor Royle. — 1. Indian Collection a basis 



for Schools of Design, ... 154 



XVII. Anatomy of Doris, 



156 



XVIII. On Three Important Chemical Discoveries from 

 the Exhibition of 1851 — (A.) Mercer's Con- 

 traction of Cotton by Alkalies — (B.) Young's 

 Paraffine and Mineral Oil from Coal — (C.) 

 Schrotter's Amorphous Phosphorus. By Dr 

 Lyon Playfair, C.B., F.R.S., 



160 



XIX. On the Spiral Structure of Muscle and the Mus- 

 cular Structure of Cilia, as determined by 

 Dr Martin Barry, . . . . 168 



