An Analysis with Percentages, of the "Summary of Wrecks and Casualties

reported in Lloyd's List' from January to March inclusive 1866 ”—Contd.

BRITISH ASSOCIATION, 1866.

THIRTY-SIXTH Meeting of the BRITISH ASSOCIATION for the Advancement of Science, held at NOTTINGHAM, 22nd-29th August, 1866.

Section F.-Economic Science and Statistics.

President.-PROFESSOR J. E. T. THOROLD ROGERS, M.A.

Vice-Presidents. - Lord Belper, Sir John Bowring, F.R.S.; William Farr, M.D., D.C.L., F.R.S.; William Felkin, F.L.S.; James Heywood, M.A., F.R.S.; Colonel Sykes, M.P., F.R.S.

Secretaries.-R. Birkin, juur.; Professor Leone Levi, F.S.A., F.S.S.; Edmund Macrory, M.A.

Committee. Samuel Brown; Rev. W. Caine; William Camps, M.D.; William Enfield; F. P. Fellowes; Lord Houghton; W. Thomas Newmarch; the Mayor of Nottingham; Charles Paget; George Senior; Henry Yates Thompson; Samuel Timmins; Alderman Vickers; Joseph White; Robert Wilkinson; Professor A. W. Williamson; James Yates.

The following Papers were read in the Section:

Thursday, 23rd August, 1866.

The President's Opening Address.

Professor Leone Levi.-On the State and Prospects of the Rate of
Discount with Reference to the Recent Monetary Crisis.
Free Trade in Banking in the Western States of America and
Manchooria (Tartary), from statements of W. Wells Brown,
and T. T. Meadows, Her Majesty's Consul at Newchang.—
Communicated by Colonel Sykes, M.P., F.R.S.

Frederick J. Wilson.-On a National Bank, and Payment of the
National Debt.

Friday, 24th August, 1866.

Professor A. W. Williamson. - Report of the Committee of the
British Association on Scientific Evidence in Courts of Law.
Professor Leone Levi.-Report of the Committee of the British
Association on Uniformity of Weights and Measures.
Joseph White, F.R.C.S. Ed., &c.-On the Statistics of the General
Hospital near Nottingham.

Frederick J. Wilson.-On Classification of the various Occupations of the People.

Rev. W. Caine.-Some of the Results of the Free Licensing System in Liverpool during the last Four Years.

Saturday, 25th August, 1866.

The Section did not meet on this day.

Monday, 27th August, 1866.

James Heywood, F.R.S.-On the Subjects required in the Classical Tripos Examination, and in the Trinity College Fellowship Examination at Cambridge.

Dr. Daubeny.-Statistics as to the Number of Graduates in Arts and Medicine at Oxford for the Last Two Centuries.

E. Renals.-On the Influence of Science Classes in Mechanics' Institutions.

Tuesday, 28th August, 1866.

Colonel Sykes.-Statistics of the Charitable, Educational, Industrial, and Public Institutions Founded by the Native Gentry of India during the last Five Years.

Mr. Wilkinson.-On the Consumption and Cost of Intoxicating Liquors in the United Kingdom in 1865.

Mr. Felkin.-Statistics of the Hosiery and Lace Trades in Notting

ham.

Rev. A. S. Worthington.- Remarks on the Unequal Proportion between the Male and Female Population of some Manufacturing and other Towns, with concurrent Phenomena shown by the Registrar-General's Returns.

Mr. George Senior. - On the Diminution of Accidents in Coal Mines since the Appointment of Government Inspectors.

Wednesday, 29th August, 1866.

Rev. C. Sewell-On Hindrances to Success of Popular Education. Mr. Thomas Browne.-On the Transfer of Real Property.

Mr. Charles Tebbutt.· On the Violation of the Principles of Economic Science caused by the Law of Distraint for Rent. Mr. G. Bell Galloway.-On Inventors and Inventions.

Mr. Frederick Wilson. On the Occupation and Ownership of

Waste Lands.

Mr. J. G. Joyce.-On the Practicability of Employing a Common

Notation for Electric Telegraphy.

PROCEEDINGS OF THE STATISTICAL SOCIETY.

SESSION 1865-66.

First Ordinary Meeting, Tuesday, 21st November, 1865. Colonel W. H. Sykes, M.P., Vice-President, in the Chair. The following Gentlemen were elected Fellows of the Society viz.:F. Ives Scudamore, Esq.

Sir John Lubbock, Bart., F.R.S. I

The following Paper was read:

"On the Original and Acquired Meaning of the term Statistics, "and on the Proper Functions of a Statistical Society: also on the Question whether there is a Science of Statistics; and, if so, what "are its Nature and Objects, and what is its Relation to Political Economy and Social Science." By Dr. Guy.

Second Ordinary Meeting, Tuesday, 19th December, 1865.
Colonel W. H. Sykes, M.P., Vice-President, in the Chair.
The following Gentlemen were elected Fellows of the Society,

viz.:-

"On the Mortality of Children in the Different States of "Europe." By Dr. William Farr.

Third Ordinary Meeting, Tuesday, 16th January, 1866.

Colonel W. H. Sykes, M.P., Vice-President, in the Chair. The following Gentlemen were elected Fellows of the Society viz.:

Thomas Brown, Esq., junr.

The following Paper was read:

W. C. McKenna, Esq.

"On French Population Statistics." By T. A. Welton.

Fourth Ordinary Meeting, Tuesday, 20th February, 1866.

Lord Houghton, President, in the Chair.

The following Gentlemen were elected Fellows of the Society, viz.:~~

Francis Lovett Cotton, Esq. I William Gard, Esq.