CONTENTS. 
XIII 
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Mr. Charles Jellicoe’s Suggestions for improving the present mode of 
keeping and stating the National Accounts. 1 • w 
Mr. James Knight on the Rise, Progress, and Present Condition of Joint 
Stock Banks . 
Dr. R. G. Latham on the non-Russian Populations of Russia in Europe . 1 
Mr. McNerney’s Statistics of Poor Relief and Movement of Population in the 
“ Commercial District ” in the Hundred of "Wirral, Cheshire .•■•••• 14- 
Mr. H. E. Michel on the Treatment of abandoned Workings of the Australian 
Gold Yields.. .. M2 
Mr. William Miller on Decimal Coinage. - . 1 I- 
-on the Decimalization of the Tariff .. 1 13 
Mr. William Newmarch on the Magnitude and Fluctuation of the Circula¬ 
tion of Bids of Exchange, IHlti to 1S63. Statement of some of the results 
of a further extensive collection of Data . .. .. IfJ 
-- Fact* and Statements connected with the Question, 
Whether, in consequence of the Discoveries within the last Six Years, the 
Exchangeable Value of Gold in this country bus falleu below its former level 1-13 
Mr. Theodore W. Rath bone on the different Plans which have been pro¬ 
posed of Decimal Accounts and Coinage . . . .. 1 13 
Colonel Sykes on the Statistics of Nice Maritime. 1 *•' 
Mr. R. Valpy on the Progress and Direction of British Exports, and the In¬ 
fluence thereon of Free Trade and Gold .. . 145 
Mr. James Yates on a Method of substituting Francs and Centimes for the 
present English Metallic Currency . 14*> 
MECHANICS. 
Mr. Frederick Bakewell on Telegraphic Communication between England 
and America .. . .. 117 
Mr. John Chanter Hn the CEconomical Working of Steam Boilers . 117 
Mr. William Clay on the huge Fly-wheel lately erected at the Mersey Iron- 
Works, Liverpool ... . . 147 
Mr. J. Cunningham on Ventilation of Ships . 1 I s 
Mr. W. Day on the (Economical Working of Steam Boilers and Furnaces, b\ 
the saving of Fuel, with a more speedy command of Steam . 1 -ID 
Mr. II. Dircks on the Prevention of Boiler Explosions . HI* 
Mr. J. Eldridgk on a New Washing Machine . 1 19 
Mr. W. Fairbairn on the Consumption of Fuel and the Prevention of Smoke 14!* 
-- - -on the Solidification of Bodies under great Pressure ... 141* 
Mr. J. Grantham on Cunningham’s Plan for Reefing Topsails . 150 
- on Fisher’s Venetian Screw Propeller . 151 
Mr. William IIawkks on the Strength of Iron after repented Meltings ... 151 
Mr. Andrew Henderson on Ocean Steamers and Clipper Ship*.-. I - 
Mr. J. B. Lindsay on some Experiments upon a Telegraph for communimtini’ 
across Rivers and Sena, without the employment of a submerged Cable 1 *>7 
