198 PROCEEDINGS OF THE SClENriFIC ASSOCIATION. 
9. The Hon. Henry Mitchell, M.D. — Additional Note on 
the Sulphites and Bisulphites. 
10. R. J. Lechmere Guppy, F.G.S., &c. — On the Tertiary 
Fossils of the West Indies, with especial reference to 
the Classification of the Kainozoic Rocks of Trinidad. 
1 1 . Professor Louis Agassiz. — Letter to the late Dr. An- 
toine Leotaud. 
12. William Henry Stone, M.A., M.B., P.R.C.P., &e.—- 
On a Method of Burial. 
13. Mr. Westall. — On the Lead Mines of Carupano. 
14. Francisco Padron, M.D. — A Sketch of the Gold Mines 
of Yuruari. 
15. The Hon. Hy. S. Mitchell, M.D., &c. — On the Manu- 
facture of Sugar by the Process of Drying the Cane. 
16. Robert Hall Bakewell, M.D. — On Population. 
When the Secretary presented his last annual Report, 
the first part of the new issue of your Proceedings had ap- 
peared. Since then the second Part has been published ; 
but I am not yet able to announce Part III., which ought 
to have been issued last month, but which may yet be de- 
layed a week or two, owing partly to a pressure upon the 
printer, and partly to the expected arrival of a plate which 
had been presented to the “ Proceedings,” but which was 
sent home in the “Conway,” one of the steamers driven 
on shore in the late hurricane at St. Thomas. It is to be 
feared this plate will not be recovered. 
Upon the papers read during the past year I regret to 
be unable to offer you other than scanty remarks ; illness 
and other engagements having prevented me from giving 
my usual attention to this part of our business. The first 
paper on the list however deserves a notice ; for notwith- 
standing the great disinclination to adopt the earth-closet 
