Report of the Annual Meeting

M. F. HOFMANN's Remarks on a new Telemeter; a new Polarimeter; a new
Polarizing Microscope; and various Spectroscopes.
Mr. N. J. HOLMES on the North Atlantic Telegraph..

Mr. J. T. TAYLOR on a Defect in the Demonstrating Polariscope, with a sim-
ple and effective Remedy

CHEMISTRY.

Address by H. BENCE JONES, A.M., M.D., F.R.S., President of the Section..

Dr. J. ATTFIELD on the Assay of Coal, &c., for Crude Paraffin Oil, and of

Crude Oil and Petroleum for Spirit, Photogen, Lubricating Oil, and Paraffin 33

Dr. BAUER on the Action of Chlorine on Amylene

Mr. ALFRED BIRD on the Purification of Terrestrial Drinking Waters with

Natural Sulphate of Alumina.....

Dr. CRACE-CALVERT on the Oxidizing Action of Carbon...

Mr. WILLIAM CROOKES on Disinfection

Dr. DAUBENY on Ozone .....

Dr. J. H. GLADSTONE on the Refraction- and Dispersion-equivalents of Chlo-

rine, Bromine, and Iodine

Mr. J. M. McGAULEY on the Nature and Properties of Ozone and Antozone
demonstrated experimentally...

Dr. H. BENCE JONES on the Chemical Action of Medicines.

Mr. H. LARKIN on a Magnesium Lamp ...

Drs. J. B. LAWES and J. H. GILBERT on the Accumulation of the Nitrogen

of Manure in the Soil.

mal Body.

.....

on the Sources of the Fat of the Ani-

Dr. STEVENSON MACADAM on the Poisonous Nature of Crude Paraffin Oil, and

the Products of its Rectification upon Fish.....

Dr. T. L. PHIPSON on an Extraordinary Iron Stone ....

.....

Dr. LYON PLAYFAIR on the Origin of Muscular Force in Animals ...

Mr. PETER SPENCE on a New Process in the Manufacture of White Lead

Mr. C. TOMLINSON on some Phenomena connected with the Melting and Soli-

difying of Wax

......

Mr. J. F. WALKER on a Phosphatic Deposit in the Lower Green Sand of Bed-

fordshire

Mr. WALTER WELDON on a Proposed Use of Fluorine in the Manufacture of

Soda

......

GEOLOGY.

Address by Professor A. C. RAMSAY, LL.D., F.R.S., &c., President of the

Section

Professor ANSTED on Intermittent discharges of Petroleum and large deposits

of Bitumen in the Valley of Pescara, Italy..

on a Salse or Mud Volcano on the flanks of Etna, commen-

cing to erupt in the month of January last

Mr. C. SPENCE BATE on an Attempt to approximate the Date of the Flint Flakes

of Devon and Cornwall

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Dr. BEKE on the Island of St. John in the Red Sea (the Ophiodes of Strabo) 50

Mr. HENRY BRIGG, Jun., on the Occurrence of Flint Implements in the Gravel

of the Little Ouse Valley at Thetford and elsewhere....

The Rev. P. B. BRODIE on the Correlation of the Lower Lias at Barrow-on-

Sour, Leicestershire, with the same Strata in Warwick-, Worcester-, and

Gloucester-shires, and on the Occurrences of the Remains of Insects at

Barrow

.....

Mr. E. BROWN on the Drift Deposit on the Weaver Hills

Mr. F. M. BURTON on the Occurrence of the Rhætic Beds, near Gainsborough

and the surrounding Strata.....

Dr. C. LE NEVE FOSTER on a Curious Lode or Mineral Vein at New Rose-

warne Mine, Gwinear, Cornwall ..

Dr. F. M. FOSTER on the Discovery of Ancient Trees below the surface of the

Land at the Western Dock now under construction at Hull.....

The Rev. J. GUNN on the Anglo-Belgian Basin of the Forest-bed of Norfolk

and Suffolk, and the Union of England with the Continent during the Glacial

Period

......

Mr. EDWARD HEDLEY on the Sinking of Annesley Colliery....

Professor OSWALD HEER on the Miocene Flora of North Greenland .....

Professor C. H. HITCHCOCK on the Geological Distribution of Petroleum in

North America...

Sir RODERICK I. MURCHISON on the parts of England and Wales in which

Coal may and may not be looked for beyond the known Coal-Fields....

Mr. HENRY ALLEYNE NICHOLSON on some Fossils from the Graptolitic Shales

of Dumfriesshire

.....

Mr. JAMES OAKES on a Peculiar Denudation of a Coal-Seam in Coates's Park

Colliery....

Mr. CHARLES W. PEACH'S Further Observations on, and Additions to, the List

of Fossils found in the Boulder-Clay of Caithness, N.B.

....

Mr. R. A. PEACOCK on a Gradual Change of Form and Position of Land on the

South End of the Isle of Walney

Mr. W. PENGELLY on Raised Beaches

....

Mr. W. H. RANSOM on the Occurrence of Felis Lynx as a British Fossil

Mr. GoVIER SEELEY on some Characters of the Brain and Skull in Plesio-

saurus

on the Carstone

on the Characters of Dolichosaurus, a Lizard-like Ser-

pent of the Chalk......

Mr. JOHN E. TAYLOR on the Relation of the Upper and Lower Crags in Nor-
folk.

Mr. W. TOPLEY on the Physical Geography of East Yorkshire

Mr. J. F. WALKER on the Lower Greensand of Bedfordshire ...

Mr. A. B. WYNNE's Notes on the Physical Features of the Land as connected

with Denudation..

BIOLOGY.

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Mr. C. SPENCE BATE on the Dentition of the Common Mole (Talpa Europea) 69

Mr. HENRY B. BRADY on the Rhizopodal Fauna of the Hebrides ....
Mr. THOMAS BROWN on the Application of the Greek and Latin Languages
to Scientific Nomenclature....

Mr. FRANK BUCKLAND on Oyster Cultivation

on the Scientific Cultivation of a Salmon River

... 71

Dr. CARPENTER on Comatula rosacea, C. celtica, and other Marine Animals

from the Hebrides

Mr. J. J. CLEATER, a few thoughts, Speculative and from Observation, on

Colour and Chromula...

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Dr. T. S. COBBOLD on the Entozoa of the Dog in relation to Public Health.. 72

The Rev. F. W. FARRAR on the Teaching of Science at the Public Schools..

Mr. R. GARNER on the Power which some Rotifers have of attaching them-