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The Authors have revised their Papers.

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CONTENTS.

[Those papers only marked * will be found printed in the Proceedings.]

* Mr. Alfred E. Fletcher, F.C.S.-"Description of

an Anemometer, capable of measuring the Speed

of Air in heated Flues, or Places where corro-

sive Vapours are found"

Mr. Flueck, Hon. Librarian. "On National

Education."

SIXTH ORDINARY MEETING

*Mr. J. Campbell Brown, D.Sc. LOND., F.C.S.-

"On the artificial formation of Organic Com-

pounds"

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EXTRAORDINARY MEETING

*The Rev. Joshua Jones, D.C.L., Principal of King

William's College, Isle of Man, late Senior

Mathematical and Johnson Mathematical

Scholar, Oxford.-"On the Unsuitableness of

Euclid as a Text Book of Geometry'

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SEVENTH ORDINARY MEETING....

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*Mr. James Birchall, Hon. Secretary." On the

Feudal Possessions of England on the Con-

tinent "

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EIGHTH ORDINARY MEETING

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*Mr. Edward Davies, F.C.S.-"The Chemistry of

the Plant and of the Animal".

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NINTH ORDINARY MEETING

138

*The Rev. W. Kennedy - Moore, M. A.-"On the

Feminine Character "

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TENTH ORDINARY MEETING.....

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John James Drysdale, M.D. EDIN., M.R.C.S. EDIN.

-"History of the Theory of the Conservation

* Rev. Alexander Gordon, M.A. "Ancient and

Modern Muggletonians"

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THIRTEENTH ORDINARY AND EXTRAORDINARY MEETING

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* Mr. John W. Hayward, M.D., M.R.C.S., L.S.A.-

Emigration of Orphans. That the Orphans

brought up at our Orphan Institutions ought to

be induced and assisted to emigrate to our

Colonies, instead of being provided with

situations in this country".

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