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CONTENTS.

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

ANNUAL MEETING-REPORT......

ELECTION OF COUNCIL

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C-ELECTION OF ASSOCIATES

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* Mr. J. Birkbeck Nevins, M. D. LOND., V. P.—“On

the Influence of Mind upon the Molecular Forces

of Matter"

SECOND ORDINARY MEETING

* Mr. Thomas J. Hutchinson, F.R.G.S., F.R.S.L.,

F.E.S., F.A.S.L., &c., &c., &c. - "On the Parana

Indians, with some Episodes of the Paraguayan

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War"

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THIRD ORDINARY MEETING

49

Rev. H. H. Higgins, M.A., V.P.-" On Science

Teaching in Schools.

EXTRAORDINARY MEETING

51

* M. J. A. Picton, F.S.A." Our Mother Tongue,

and its Congeners"

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EXTRAORDINARY MEETING

85

FIFTH ORDINARY MEETING

85

* Rev. John Sephton, M. A.—"On Meteors and

* Rev. W. L. Clay." On Capital and Secondary

Punishments"

EIGHTH ORDINARY MEETING

147

166

* Mr. James Samuelson. "Continuity in Civilisa-

tion, as Illustrated by the Connection between

our own Culture and that of the Ancient World"

167

NINTH ORDINARY MEETING.................

192

Mr. Jno Newton, M.R.C.S.-" On Ventilation."

TENTH ORDINARY MEETING.....

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194

* Mr. Baron Louis Benas.-"Semitic Proverbs'

ON THE SOCIETY'S ROLL AT THE CLOSE OF THE 58TH SESSION.

Those marked † are Original Members of the Society.

Life Members are marked with an Asterisk.

Oct. 11, 1833 Aiken, James, 2, Drury-lane, and 4, Gambier-

terrace.

Nov. 4, 1867 Allen, Jno. Fenwick, Windleshaw, St. Helens.

March 7, 1864 Archer, F., jun., B.A. Trin. Coll., Cantab., 8,

Brunswick-street.

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