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“ Further Observations and Experiments on the Influence of 
Acids on Iron and Steel,” by William H. Johnson, B.Sc. 
“On Dr. Schliemann’s Excavations and Discoveries on the site 
of Troy,” by R. D. Darbishire, F.G.S. 
“Results of Certain Magnetic Observations made at Manchester 
during the year 1873,” by Professor Balfour Stewart, LL.D., F.R.S. 
March \Qth, 1874. — “On Some Specimens of Hypothenemus 
Eruditus,” by Joseph Sidebotham, F.R.A.S. 
March 2ithy 1874. — “On Some of the Perplexities which the 
Art and Architecture of the Present are preparing for the His- 
torians and Antiquarians of the Future,” by the Rev. Brooke 
Herford. 
“A Few Observations on Coal,” by E. W. Binney, F.R.S., 
F.G.S., V.P. 
March 2)lsty A :. — “The Meteorological Theory of Cometary 
Phenomena,” by David Winstanley, Esq. 
Aprillth,\^1A . — “On the Corrosion of some portions of the 
Cast Iron Roof of the Salford Station of the Lancashire and 
Yorkshire Railway,” by E. AY. Binney, F.R.S., F.G.S,, V.P. 
“ On the Action of Nascent Hydrogen on Iron,” by William H. 
Johnson, B.Sc. 
“ Does the Earth receive any Heat directly from the Sun by 
Henry H. Howorth, Esq. 
April IWi, 1874. — “On the Introduction of Planorbis dilatatus 
from America into Lancashire,” by Thomas Rogers, Esq. 
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