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CONTENTS. 
Page. 
MECHANICAL SCIENCES APPLIED TO THE ARTS. 
Mr. Eaton Hodgkinson on Impact and Collision. 107 
Mr. J. S. Russell on the Solid of least Resistance. 107 
Capt. Denham on Vibration of Railways.. 108 
The Rev. Dr. Lardner and C. Vignolles on certain Points in the 
Theory of the Construction of Railroads.... 108 
Mr. John Taylor on the Monthly Reports of the Duty of Steam- 
engines employed in draining the Mines of Cornwall. 108 
Professor Stevelly’s Description of a Self-registering Barometer. 109 
Mr. A. Pritchard on Microscopes, Polariscopes, &c. 112 
Mr. Hawkins on Saxton’s Differential Pulley. 112 
Mr. Cheverton on Mechanical Sculpture. 112 
Mr. Ettrick’s Suggestions for Improvements in Clocks, &c. 112 
STATISTICS. 
Dr. Henry Maunsell on the Statistics of the Dublin Foundling Ho¬ 
spital, and on Child Desertion in the City of Dublin. 113 
Colonel Sykes on Wages in India. 118 
Mr. Babbage’s Remarks on the Statistics contained in the Ordnance 
Survey of the Parish ofTemplemore. 118 
Inquiries carried on by the Statistical Society of Manchester. 119 
General Summary of Schools and Scholars in the Borough of Bury, 
Lancashire, in July 1835. 121 
List of Inquiries adopted by the Statistical Society of Manchester con¬ 
cerning the Means existing for the Religious Instruction of the 
Working Classes in Manchester. 123 
Dr. Cleland on the Glasgow Bridewell or House of Correction. 123 
Mr. E. Halswell on the Causes which affect the Proportions between 
the Numbers of Accusations and Convictions in the Metropolitan Di¬ 
strict, and on the Effects which well-managed Houses of Correction 
have in repressing Crime. 124 
Mr. Fox on the Punishment of Death in Prussia, Norway, and Bruns¬ 
wick. 124 
Mr. W. R. Greg on the Social Statistics of the Netherlands. 125 
Dr. Dickenson's Account of the Normal School in Dublin established 
by the Commissioners of Education. ..., . 125 
Mr. Babbage on Cooperative Shops for the purpose of supplying Work¬ 
men with the Necessaries of Life. 125 
Lieut.-Col. Sykes on the State of Education in the Deccan. 125 
Dr. D. B. Reid on the extension of the Study of Physics. 126 
