70 
mynute folowynge/ lately corrected and emprynted at 
London in the Fletestrete by wynkyn de worde. In the 
yere of the Incarnacyon of onr lorde A.M. CCCCC and viii. 
The xxiii yere of the reygne of onr most redoubted 
sonverayne lord kinge Henry the YH.” 
In the tables which follow it is noticeable that whilst 
only Roman numerals are employed throughout, the 
cipher is used to show that some places in the column have 
not been left blank by accident. Whether this is taken 
from the Arabic numerals, or is a survival of the 
used in the abacus named after Boethius might be difficult 
to determine. 
“A Notice of some Organic Remains from, the Manx 
Schists,” by E. W. Binney, F.R.S., F.G.S., President. 
[This Paper will appear in a succeeding number of the 
Proceedings.] 
On Changes in the Rates of Mortality from Different 
Diseases during the Twenty Years 1854-73,” by Joseph 
Baxendell, F.R.A.S. 
It is well known to all who take an interest in questions 
relating to health and disease that the sanitary measures 
which have been carried out, at great cost, in all parts of the 
country during the last twenty or thirty years appear to 
liave had no perceptible effect in improving the general 
state of the public health and reducing the rate of mortality, 
and a feeling is rapidly gaining ground that the sanitary 
schemes which have been imposed upon the country by 
parliament are either of very questionable utility, or have 
been carried out by local authorities in a very negligent 
and inefficient manner, while the enormous and rapidly 
increasing expenditure which they involve is becoming a 
matter for very serious consideration, and is especially 
