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rejecting them. Constituted as this Society is, and considering 
the very miscellaneous character of the communications it 
receives, it is almost impossible for the Council to arrive at a 
speedy decision in regard to the value of the papers read before 
it, and the expediency of printing them. To print papers 
without being first assured of their being worthy of publication, 
would be seriously injurious to the credit and reputation of 
the Society. The Council, therefore, recommend that the 
plan of publishing Proceedings commenced during the last 
session, be continued. 
The Titles of the Papers read during the Session 1857 — 8, 
are as follows : — 
October 6th, 1857* — “On a Yellow Colouring Matter obtained 
from the leaves of the Polygonum Fagopyrum, or the common 
Buckwheat,” by E. Schunck, Ph.D., F.R.S. 
October 20th, 1857. — “ On some applications of the Chromates of 
Potash in Metrical Analysis,” by R. W. Pearson, communicated by 
R. A. Smith, Ph.D., F.R.S. 
November 3rd, 1857. — “ On the Eclipse of the Sun on the 15th 
of March, 1858,” by Mr. W. L. Dickinson. 
November \7th, 1857 — “ On the Triedral Partitions of the X 
Ace,” by the Rev. T. P. Kirkman, M.A., F.R.S., &c. 
December Isf, 1857. — “On Rosolic Acid,” by R. A. Smith, Ph.D., 
F.R.S. 
December \bth, 1857* — “ On the Folk-Lore of Lancashire, as 
compared with that of the Greeks, the Romans, the Saxons, and the 
Danes,” by T. T. Wilkinson, F.R.A.S. 
December 29th, 1857. — A continuation of the Paper “On the 
Folk-Lore of Lancashire,” by T. T. Wilkinson, F.R.A.S. 
January \2th, 1858. — “ On Improvement in Meteorological 
Registration,” by T. Hopkins, V.P. 
January 26th, 1858. — “ The Solution of the Problem of the 
Polyedra,” by the Rev. T. P. Kirkman, M.A., F.R.S. 
February 23rd, 1858 — “On the Consumption of Coals and the 
Rate of Evaporation in Engine Boilers,” by Mr. John Graham. 
March 9th, 1858. — “On Experiments to determine the strength 
