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February 20^A, 1877.—“ Note on a Curious Allusion of a 
Writer of the 17th Century to a supposed Property of the Mag- 
netic Needle, since verified in the Invention of Telegraphy,” by 
Harry Grimshaw, F.C.S. 
“ On the Action of Water aud Dilute Saline Solutions upon 
Lead, Part IIL,” by M. M. Pattison Muir, F.RS.E. 
“ On the Increased Mortality from Small-Pox,” by Joseph 
Baxendell, F.R.A.S. 
February 1877.— “ Results of Rain-Gauge Observations 
made at Eccles, near Manchester, during the Year 1876,” by 
Thomas Mackereth, F.R.A.S., F.M.S. 
March Qth, 1877. — “Note on Early Anticipations of a Magnetic 
Telegraph,” by Professor W. S. Jevons, M.A., F.R.S. 
“ Note on a Passage in Strada containing a Prevision of the Elec- 
tric Telegraph,” by William E. A. Axon, M.R.S.L., F.S.S. 
“ On the Law of Force when a Thin Homogeneous Spherical 
Shell exerts no Attraction on a Particle within it,” by J. H. Poyn- 
ting, B.A., B.Sc. 
“ Enquiries concerning a Change of Position of the Earth’s Axis,” 
by Arthur Wm. Waters, F.G.S. 
March 2()th, 1877. — “On the Action of Sea-Water upon Lead 
and Copper,” by William H. Watson, F.C.S. Communicated by 
Dr. R. Angus Smith, F.R.S. 
“ Note on the Upper Coal Measures of Canobie, Dumfriesshire,” 
by E. W. Binney, F.R.S., &c., President. 
“Losses and Gains in the Death-toll of England and Wales 
* during the last 30 years,” by Arthur Ransome, M.A., M.D. 
April ^rd, 1877. — “On the Action of Water and dilute Saline 
Solutions upon Lead. Addendum to Part IIL,” by M. M. Patti- 
son Muir, F.R.S.E. 
“ The Drunkenness Statistics of the Large Towns in England 
and Wales,” by J. H. Poynting, B.A., B.Sc. 
Several of the above papers have already been printed in 
the new volume of Memoirs, and others have been passed 
by the Council for printing. 
The Council consider it desirable to continue the system 
of electing Sectional Associates, and a resolution on the 
