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CONTENTS OF VOLUME VIII.

Opening Address by the retiring President, James Bryce, M. A., LL.D.,

F.G.S.,

The Astronomy of the Nineteenth Century,-Inaugural Address by

Professor Grant, M.A., LL.D., F.R.S., the President-Elect,

Comparison of the Vital Statistics of the Different Districts of Glasgow,

for the Two Years, 1869 and 1870. By Mr. Alexander Scott,

Biogenesis, as bearing upon Decomposition, Putrefaction, and Decay.
By Dr. Robert Bell,

On the Drainage and Sewerage of Towns. By Mr. John Phillips, C.E.,

London,

112

On Pressure Logs for Measuring the Speed of Ships. By James R.

Napier, F.R.S.,

146

On the Results of the Recent Solar Eclipse. By Dr. T. E. Thorpe,

F.R.S.E.,

160

On the Analysis of Chrome Ore. By John Clark, Ph.D.,

174

On some Experiments with Fehling's Copper Solution. By T. L.

Patterson, F.C.S.,

177

On a Double Sulphide of Gold and Silver. By M. M. Pattison Muir,

F.C.S.,

184

On the Action of Dilute Saline Solutions upon Lead. By M. M.

Pattison Muir, F.C.S.,

184

The Jargons and Zircons of Ceylon. By M. H. Cochrane, F.C.S.,

On the Separation of Phosphoric Acid, Ferric Oxide, Alumina, Lime,

and Magnesia. By Thomas Robertson Ogilvie, F.C.S.,

On the Part which Ferric and Aluminic Oxides play in the Manufacture

of Superphosphate, and on the Comparative Value of Mineral

Phosphates. By T. L. Patterson, F. C.S.,

186

189

194

On some Evidences as to the very early Use of Iron. By Mr. St. John

Vincent Day, C.E., F.R.S.E.,

235

Volcanic Vapours of Mount Vesuvius. By Mr. James Anderson,

Livingstone Relief Expedition, via the Congo. By Mr. James R. Napier,

On British Weights and Measures. By Mr. James R. Napier, F.R.S.,

Discussion on Mr. Napier's Paper,

On Numeral and Metral Systems.

On the Purification of Water.

The Transit of Venus in 1874.

By Mr. E. L. Garbett,

By Professor Bischof,

By Professor G. Forbes,.

On Flour-Mill Fire Explosions. By Stevenson Macadam, Ph.D.,

F.R.S.E.,