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D. MARPLES & CO., LIMITED, LORD STREET.
1878.
23.36.
LSOC 1816.5
1879. April 30,
The Society
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 Librarian, from whom back numbers may be obtained.
CONTENTS.
COUNCIL
LIST OF MEMBERS
HONORARY MEMBERS
CORRESPONDING MEMBERS .
ASSOCIATES
ADDITIONS TO THE LIBRARY
LIST OF SOCIETIES, ETC., TO WHICH THIS VOLUME IS
PRESENTED
BALANCE SHEET
ANNUAL MEETING REPORT
ELECTION OF COUNCIL.
RE-ELECTION OF ASSOCIATES.
PRESIDENT'S INAUGURAL ADDRESS" Is
SCIENTIFIC MATERIALISM COMPATIBLE
WITH DOGMATIC THEOLOGY ?"
FIRST ORDINARY MEETING.....
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.
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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
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.
SIXTH ORDINARY MEETING
The Telephone, explained by Dr. CAMPBELL Brown.
Report of the result of Soirée 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.....
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Microphotographs of Thread Cells of Physalia, &c., by
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., on "Scientific Mate-
rialism from a Non-scientific Point of View."
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.
NINTH 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."
TENTH 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.
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