PROCEEDINGS

OF THE

LITERARY AND PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY

OF

LIVERPOOL,

VIRES

DURING THE

SIXTY-SEVENTH SESSION, 1877-78.

No. XXXII.

LONGMANS, GREEN, READER, & DYER.

LIVERPOOL:

D. MARPLES & CO., LIMITED, LORD STREET.

S'm 1878.

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.

COUNCIL

LIST OF MEMBERS

CONTENTS.

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.............

Microphotographs of Thread Cells of Physalia, &c., by

Mr. T. J. MOORE.

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."

EIGHTH ORDINARY MEETING

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."

"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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