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HARVARD
UNIVER MY
LIBRARY

Jan 3, 1958

Kellenti

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This Volume has been edited by the Honorary Secretary.

The Authors have revised their Papers.

The Authors alone are responsible for facts and opinions.

The Society exchanges Proceedings with other publishing bodies through the Secretary, from whom back numbers may be obtained.

CONTENTS.

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

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

the Influence of Mind upon the Molecular Forces

of Matter"

9

SECOND ORDINARY MEETING

22

* 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

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Indians, with some Episodes of the Paraguayan

War"

23

THIRD ORDINARY MEETING

49

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

Teaching in Schools.

EXTRAORDINARY MEETING

51

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

Meteoric Astronomy"

SIXTH ORDINARY MEETING

*Mr. F. J. Jeffery.- "Historic Errors and Doubts;

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How they Originate, and How they are Perpe-

tuated"

SEVENTH ORDINARY MEETING

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

Mr. James Samuelson. "Continuity in Civilisa-

tion, as Illustrated by the Connection between

our own Culture and that of the Ancient World"

87

111

115

146

147

166

NINTH ORDINARY MEETING.

167

192

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

TENTH ORDINARY MEETING..............

194

*Mr. Christian Flueck.—“Foreign Eyes in Eng-

land"

195

ELEVENTH ORDINARY MEETING

226

*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, 1838 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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