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The following papers and communications have been read 
at the Ordinary and Sectional Meetings of the Society 
during the Session now closing : — 
1871. 
Oct. 3. — “ On the High Death Rates of Manchester and Salford,” 
by E. W. Binney, F.R.S., F.G.S., President. 
Oct. 9. — “ Notices of Several Recently-discovered and Unde- 
scribed British Mosses,” by G. E. Hunt, Esq. 
“ Notes on Dorcatoma Bovistre,” by Joseph Side- 
botham, F.R.A.S. 
Oct. 17. — “ On the Oxychlorides of Antimony,” by W. Carleton 
Williams, Student in the Laboratory of Owens 
College. Communicated by Professor H. E. Roscoe, 
E.R.S. 
Oct. 31. — “On the Discoveries made in the Victoria Cave,” by 
W. Boyd Dawkins, E.R.S. 
“ Note on the Chromium Oxychloride described by 
Herr Zettnow in Poggendorff’s Annalen der Physik 
und Chemie, No. G, 1871,” by T. E. Thorpe, F.R.S.E. 
“On Aurine,” by R. S. Dale, B.A., and C. Schorlemmer, 
E.R.S. 
“Species Viewed Mathematically,” by T. S. Aldis, M.A. 
Nov. G. — “ On Tricopliyton tonsurans ,” by Mr. John Barrow. 
Nov. 7. — “ On Changes in the Distribution of Barometric 
Pressure, Temperature, and Rainfall under Different 
Winds, during a Solar Spot Period,” by Joseph 
Baxendell, F.R.A.S. 
Nov. 14. — “On the Aurora of November 10th, 1871,” by E. W. 
Binney, F.R.S., F.G.S., President. 
“ On the Origin of our Domestic Breeds of Cattle,” by 
Wm. Boyd Dawkins, F.R.S. 
Nov. 28. — “Encke’s Comet, and the Supposed Resisting Medium,” 
by Professor W. Stanley Jevons, M.A. 
“ On Cometary Phenomena,” by Professor Osborne 
Reynolds, M.A. 
“ On the Rupture of Iron Wire by a Blow,” by John 
Hopkinson, B.A., D.Sc. 
