LONDON:
LONGMANS, GREEN, READER, & DYER.

LIVERPOOL:
D. MARPLES & CO., LIMITED, LORD STREET.

1878.

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271409

Election of Honorary and Corresponding Members.

Conversazione on Natural Science.

List of Plants exhibited by Mr. RICHARDSON.
Description of New Fresh Water Sponge from Salto

River, Uruguay, by Mr. T. HIGGIN, F.Z.S.

New form of Sprengel Pump, by Mr. C. H. STEARN.

Specimens of Fossil Shells, Physalia, etc., etc., by

Mr. T. J. MOORE.

Selections of Minerals, by Mr. MARRATT.

SECOND ORDINARY MEETING

Mr. Joseph Boult, F.R.I.B.A., on “The Credibility

of Venerable Bede."

THIRD ORDINARY MEETING ..

Mr. A. J. Mott, on Mr. Stanley's Discoveries in Africa.

Rev. H. H. HIGGINS, M.A., on “ Developmentalists

and Evolutionists ; or, the Use of Dogma in

Science.”

FOURTH ORDINARY MEETING

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Conversation on Pisciculture, and the modern methods

of transportation of Ova, by Mr. MATHER, U.S.

Fish Commission.

Cast Shell of Cray Fish, by Mr. T. J. MOORE
Discussion of PRESIDENT'S Address and Rev. H. H.

HIGGINS' Paper.

Fifth ORDINARY MEETING .......

On the Change in the Spectrum of a Star, by Mr.

R. C. JOHNSON, F.R.A.S.

Mr. JOSIAH MARPLES on Amy Robsart, the Story

of her Married Life and her Death," with two

fac-simile letters.

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SIXTH ORDINARY MEETING

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The Telephone, explained by Dr. CAMPBELL BROWN.

Report of the result of Soiree of Associated Literary,

Scientific, and Art Societies.

Mr. THOMAS WARD, on " The Salt Lakes, Deserts,

and Salt Districts of Asia," with a Map.

SEVENTH ORDINARY MEETING....

Microphotographs of Thread Cells of Physalia, &c., by

Mr. T. J. MOORE.

Liquefaction of Gases and Manufacture of Rubies,

etc., explained by Mr. ISAAC ROBERTS, F.G.S.

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Mr. JAMES A. PICTON, F.S.A., " Scientific Mate-

rialism from a Non-scientific Point of View."

EIGHTH ORDINARY MEETING

Specimen of Down of Alsophila Pruinata, exhibited

and described by Mr. J. L. PALMER, R.N.

On Phonetic Spelling, by Mr. Josiah MARPLES.
Mr. J. N. SHOOLBRED, B.A., C.E., on “Tides in the

Irish Sea and in the River Mersey,” with illus-
trations.

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NINTA ORDINARY MEETING ...

Letter from Mr. DUKINFIELD JONES descriptive of

Larvæ, &c., of Moth.

Hutchinson's Tide Tables, exhibited by Mr. G. F.

CHANTRELL.

Mr. BARON L. Benas, on • The Proverbs of Euro-

pean Nations."

TENTA ORDINARY MEETING....

Phonograph, exhibited and explained by Mr. STEARN.

Rev. T. P. KIRKMAN, M.A., F.R.S., on “The Enu-

meration and Construction of the 9-Acral

9-Edra,” with illustrations, and “ The Construc-

tion of the Poly-Edra."

Rev. Dr. STERN, on “Moses Mendelssohn."

ELEVENTH ORDINARY MEETING

“A Veritable Claimant," by Mr. JAMES A. Picton,

F.S.A.

"The Appendages of a rare Coleopterous Insect," by

Rev. H. H. HIGGINS, M.A.

Some Specimens of Silicified Wood from the " Argo

Collection, analysed by Dr. CAMPBELL BROWN.

Description of Observatory at Higher Bebington, by Mr

R. C. JOHNSON, F.R.A.S., with an illustration.