THE COAL TAR INDUSTRY. 395 
ON TIME. 
SYLLABUS OF PAPER BY J. MERRIFIELD, LL.D., F.R.A.S. 
(Read 3rd February, 1887.) 
Measures of time. The natural ones are the year, the month, 
and the day. How governed. The lengths of the different years. 
Procession of the equinoxes. Leap year, and other modifications 
for regulating the year. The month : how used among the 
ancients. The seasons : the unequal lengths of, explained. The 
day : the lengths of the several kinds. The equation of time and 
its effects on local time. Connection between local time and 
longitude. Our chief timekeeper losing time. Causes for. 
International or universal time, and the prime meridian settled on 
at the Geodetic Conferences at Koine and Washington. 
CAPITAL. 
SYLLABUS OF LECTURE BY GILBERT SLATER, B.A. 
(Read 10th February, 1887.) 
Different methods of economic research. Definition of capital. 
History of capitalism in England. England in the fifteenth 
century. England in 1760. The Industrial Revolution between 
1760 and 1800. Its effects : First, on the wealth; second, on the 
welfare of England. Practical conclusions. Biological analogy. 
CHURCHWARDENS' ACCOUNTS OF ST. BUDEAUX. 
BY JOHN WHITMARSH. 
(Read 17th February, 1887.) 
It is hoped that the substance of this paper will appear else- 
where. 
THE COAL TAR INDUSTRY. 
SYLLABUS OP PAPER BY T. H. HARVEY. 
(Read 24th February, 1887.) 
Its recent origin. Coal Tar Colors. Crude products of tar. 
Liquid Fuel. Saccharine and Salol. 
