Mr. HENRY DIRCKS on Patent Monopoly as affecting the encouragement, im- provement, and progress of Science, Arts, and Manufactures.. Mr. FRANK P. FELLOWS on the New Scheme of Mr. C. Seely, M.P., and Mr. F. P. Fellows for Admiralty Estimates, and "Finance," " nufacturing," and other Accounts, &c., recommended for adoption by the Committee of the House of Commons on Naval Monies and Accounts, and Mr. J. G. FITCH on Educational Endowments Mr. G. BELL GALLOWAY on Inventors and Inventions ... The Rev. EDWARD GIRDLESTONE on the Condition of the Agricultural La- Mr. W. D. HARDING on the Drainage of the Fens of Cambridgeshire, Hun- tingdonshire, Norfolk, and Suffolk. Mr. JAMES HEYWOOD on the Sanitary state of Indians in the Settlement of Mr. HENRY JEULA's Brief Statement of the Recent Progress and Present Aspect of Statistical Inquiry in relation to Shipping Casualties Sir WILLOUGHBY JONES on the Arterial Drainage of Norfolk.... Professor LEONE LEVI on the Progress of Learned Societies, illustrative of the Advancement of Science in the United Kingdom during the last Thirty Mr. HORACE MANN's Statistics relating to the Civil Service Mr. FRANCIS G. P. NEISON, Jun., on the Influence of Occupation upon Health 174 Mr. JOSEPH PAYNE on the relation between Learning and Teaching ................ 175 Mr. HENRY J. KER PORTER On the Extension of the Contagious Diseases Act 175 Mr. C. S. READ on the Recent Improvements in Norfolk Farming Mr. C. BLYTH on an Improved Machine for Drawing-off, Measuring, and Cut- ting Cloth and other Materials for Manufacturing Purposes... Mr. E. CHARLESWORTH on the substitution of Hand- for Shoulder-guns, illustrated by an explanatory exhibition of an Elevator Hand-gun made on Mr. P. LE NEVE FOSTER, Jun., on the Irrigation of Upper Lombardy by New Canals to be derived from the Lakes Lugano and Maggiore... Capt. D. 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