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CONTENTS.

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

COUNCIL

LIST OF MEMBERS

HONORARY MEMBERS

CORRESPONDING MEMBERS

ASSOCIATES

BALANCE SHEET

ANNUAL MEETING-REPORT.......

ELECTION OF COUNCIL

RE-ELECTION OF ASSOCIATES

FIRST ORDINARY MEETING

*Mr. Birchall

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"On the Limits of Geographical

Knowledge in the Elizabethan Age"...

SECOND ORDINARY MEETING

Mr. Astrup Cariss." Organisation in Philanthropic

Work, with Suggestions having special reference

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to Liverpool"...

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THIRD ORDINARY MEETING

29

*Mr. Ewing Whittle, M.D., M.R.I.A."On

Criminal Responsibility"

80

FOURTH ORDINARY MEETING

46

*Rev. J. S. Jones." On certain Contradictory

or Abnormal Phenomena of the Age"

47

FIFTH ORDINARY MEETING

* Mr. John Newton, M.R.C.S." Fire, and Fire-

Making a Chapter in the History of Civilisa-

tion"

SIXTH ORDINARY MEETING

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Mr. J. A. Picton, F.S.A. "On Social Life

among the Teutonic Races in Early Times"

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SEVENTH ORDINARY MEETING

*Mr. A. Baruchson..

Education Departments of the Social Science

"On the Jurisprudence and

Congress at Belfast"

EIGHTH ORDINARY MEETING

NINTH ORDINARY MEETING

Dr. Collingwood." On the Physical and Ethno-

logical Features of the Island of Formosa, with

a notice of other Countries visited in a late

scientific voyage"

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TENTH ORDINARY MEETING.......

146

Mr. W. Bromham." On the Rationality of the

Lower Animals"

146

ELEVENTH ORDINARY MEETING

146

*Rev. W. Kennedy Moore.- "On Certain Theo-