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Anonymous Volume Information . . . . . . . . . . . i--vii
Leone Levi On Joint Stock Companies . . . . . . . . 1--41
Ernest Seyd On International Coinage and the
Variations of the Foreign Exchanges
During Recent Years . . . . . . . . . . 42--73
Robert Buchanan Finance of the Free Church of Scotland 74--110
Anonymous Proceedings of the Statistical Society,
Session 1868--69 . . . . . . . . . . . . 111--112
Anonymous Recommendations of the Council of the
Statistical Society With Respect to the
Census of 1871 . . . . . . . . . . . . . 113--113
Anonymous Thirty-Ninth Meeting of the British
Association for the Advancement of
Science, Held at Exeter, 18th--25th
August, 1869 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 114--115
Anonymous Miscellanea . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 116--169
Anonymous Periodical Returns . . . . . . . . . . . 170--203
Anonymous Report of the Council for the Financial
Year Ended 31st December, 1869, and for
The Sessional Year Ended with June,
1870, Presented at the Thirty-Sixth
Anniversary Meeting of The Statistical
Society, Held at the Society's Rooms,
12, St. James's Square, on Thursday,
23rd June, 1870; with the Proceedings of
that Meeting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 205--215
R. H. Patterson On Our Home Monetary Drains, and the
Crisis of 1866 . . . . . . . . . . . . . 216--242
James E. Thorold Rogers On the Incidence of Local Taxation . . . 243--263
Anonymous Miscellanea . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 264--287
Anonymous Periodical Returns . . . . . . . . . . . 288--308
W. Stanley Jevons Opening Address of the President of
Section F (Economic Science and
Statistics), of the British Association
for the Advancement of Science, at the
Fortieth Meeting, at Liverpool,
September, 1870 . . . . . . . . . . . . 309--326
William E. A. Axon Statistical Notes on the Free
Town-Libraries of Great Britain and the
Continent . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 327--365
William B. Forwood The Influence of Price upon the
Cultivation and Consumption of Cotton
During the Ten Years 1860--70 . . . . . 366--383
Anonymous Proceedings of the Statistical Society 384--385
Anonymous Fortieth Meeting of the British
Association for the Advancement of
Science, held at Liverpool, 14th--21st
September, 1870 . . . . . . . . . . . . 386--387
Anonymous Miscellanea . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 388--411
Anonymous Periodical Returns . . . . . . . . . . . 412--431
Anonymous Volume Information . . . . . . . . . . . 553--568
William A. Guy On the Claims of Science to Public
Recognition and Support; With Special
Reference to the So-Called ``Social
Sciences.'' . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 433--451
E. Renals On Mechanics' Institutions and the
Elementary Education Bill . . . . . . . 452--455
James Heywood On the Aptitude of North American
Indians for Agriculture . . . . . . . . 456--462
Berkeley Hill Statistical Results of the Contagious
Diseases Acts . . . . . . . . . . . . . 463--485
Archibald Hamilton On Wool Supply . . . . . . . . . . . . . 486--521
Anonymous Miscellanea . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 522--532
Anonymous Periodical Returns . . . . . . . . . . . 533--552
Anonymous Volume Information . . . . . . . . . . . i--vii
Ernest Seyd On Currency Laws and Their Effects on
Pauperism . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--20
Frederick Purdy Suggestions upon the Preparation and
Printing of Parliament Statistics . . . 21--56
Anonymous Miscellanea . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57--82
Anonymous Periodical Returns . . . . . . . . . . . 83--109
R. H. Inglis Palgrave On the Local Taxation of Great Britain
and Ireland . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111--235
William Newmarch Report of the Council for the Financial
Year ended 31st December, 1870, an for
the Sessional Year ended with June,
1871, Presented at the Thirty-Seventh
Anniversary Meeting of the Statistical
Society, Held at the Society's Rooms,
12, St. James's Square, on Thursday,
22nd June, 1871; with the Proceedings of
that Meeting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 236--251
Anonymous Miscellanea . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 252--260
Anonymous Periodical Returns . . . . . . . . . . . 261--280
John Scott On Local Taxation . . . . . . . . . . . 281--333
R. H. Patterson On the Rate of Interest,-and the Effects
of a High Bank-Rate During Commercial
and Monetary Crises . . . . . . . . . . 334--356
Hyde Clarke On the Geographical Distribution of
Intellectual Qualities in England . . . 357--373
Anonymous Miscellanea . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 374--383
Anonymous Periodical Returns . . . . . . . . . . . 384--407
Anonymous Volume Information . . . . . . . . . . . 539--553
William Farr Inaugural Address Delivered at the
Society's Rooms, 12, St. James's Square,
London, on Tuesday, 21st November, 1871 409--423
James T. Hammick Suggestions for the Collection and
Arrangement of Local Statistical
Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 424--460
Lord Neaves Opening Address of the President of
Section F (Economic Science and
Statistics), of the British Association
for the Advancement of Science, at the
Forty-First Meeting, at Edinburgh,
August, 1871 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 461--475
William Newmarch Address by William Newmarch, Esq.,
F.R.S., as President of the Economy and
Trade Department, Social Science
Association, at Leeds, 10th October,
1871 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 476--498
Anonymous Miscellanea . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 499--511
Anonymous Periodical Returns . . . . . . . . . . . 512--538
Anonymous Volume Information . . . . . . . . . . . i--vii
T. Graham Balfour Comparative Health of Seamen and
Soldiers, as Shown by the Naval and
Military Statistical Reports . . . . . . 1--24
Leone Levi On the Limits of Legislative
Interference with the Sale of Fermented
Liquors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25--56
Frederic John Mouat On Prison Discipline and Statistics in
Lower Bengal . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57--106
Archibald Hamilton On the Colonies . . . . . . . . . . . . 107--126
Anonymous Miscellanea . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 127--150
Anonymous Periodical Returns . . . . . . . . . . . 151--170
Hammond Chubb The Bank Act and the Crisis of 1866 . . 171--195
Stephen Bourne The Official Trade and Navigation
Statistics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 196--217
John Glover Tonnage Statistics of the Decade
1860--70 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 218--230
Anonymous Miscellanea . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 231--244
Anonymous Periodical Returns . . . . . . . . . . . 245--264
Anonymous Report of the Council for the Financial
Year Ended 31st December, 1871, and for
the Sessional Year Ended with June,
1872, Presented at the Thirty-Eighth
Anniversary Meeting of the Statistical
Society, Held at the Society's Rooms,
12, St. James's Square, on Thursday,
20th June, 1872; with the Proceedings of
that Meeting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 265--271
James Anderson Statistics of Telegraphy . . . . . . . . 272--326
Henry Jeula Some Statistics Relating to the Traffic
Through the Suez Canal; to Merchant
Vessels Touching at St. Helena; and to
Losses Posted on ``Lloyd's Loss Book'' 327--333
William E. A. Axon On the Consumption of Tobacco in the
United Kingdom, 1801--70 . . . . . . . . 334--340
Robert Michell Summary of Statistics of the Russian
Empire . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 341--372
Anonymous House Accomodation for Learned Societies 373--375
Anonymous Miscellanea . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 376--388
Anonymous Periodical Returns . . . . . . . . . . . 389--416
Anonymous Volume Information . . . . . . . . . . . 565--582
William Farr Inaugural Address Delivered at the
Society's Rooms, 12, St. James's Square,
London, on Tuesday, 19th November, 1872 417--430
Samuel Brown Report on the Eighth International
Statistical Congress, Held at St.
Petersburg, 22nd/10th August to
29th/17th, 1872 . . . . . . . . . . . . 431--457
Ernest Seyd Statistical Critique on the Operation of
the Bank Charter Act of 1844, and
Suggestions for an Improved System of
Issue . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 458--540
Anonymous Miscellanea . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 541--545
Anonymous Periodical Returns . . . . . . . . . . . 546--564
Anonymous Volume Information . . . . . . . . . . . i--vii
William A. Guy John Howard as Statist . . . . . . . . . 1--18
Francis Galton The Relative Supplies from Town and
Country Families, to the Population of
Future Generations . . . . . . . . . . . 19--26
Robert Harry Inglis Palgrave Notes on Banking in Great Britain and
Ireland, Sweden, Denmark, and Hamburg;
with some Remarks on the Amount of Bills
in Circulation, both Inland and Foreign,
in Great Britain and Ireland; and the
Banking Law of Sweden . . . . . . . . . 27--152
Anonymous Discussion on Mr. Palgrave's Paper . . . 153--157
Anonymous Underwriter's Statistics . . . . . . . . 157--158
Anonymous Agricultural Returns of the United
States . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 158--158
Anonymous Periodical Returns . . . . . . . . . . . 159--176
R. Biddulph Martin Notes on the Purchase of the Railways by
the State . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 177--255
W. Farr On the Valuation of Railways . . . . . . 256--259
Captain Tyler Railway Statistics furnished by Captain
Tyler . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 259--270
Anonymous Powers of State to Purchase Railways.
Clauses of 7 and 8 Vict., Cap. 85 (9th
August, 1844) . . . . . . . . . . . . . 270--272
Anonymous Extract from Mr. Chubb's Letters to the
``Times'' . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 272--274
Anonymous Violent Deaths in England Connected with
Railways, 1871 . . . . . . . . . . . . . 275--276
Frank P. Fellows On our National Parliamentary Accounts,
with Suggestions for Establishing a
Doomsday Book Giving the Value of
National Governmental Property or Assets
as the Basis of a Sound System of
Accounts, by which Expenditure for
Capital and Current Account shall be
Separately Shown . . . . . . . . . . . . 277--302
Frederick H. Janson The Statistics of Legislation . . . . . 303--320
Anonymous The Dangers of the Money Market . . . . 321--324
Anonymous The English Pauper Roll at Lady-Day . . 324--326
Anonymous The Local Taxation of England . . . . . 326--326
Anonymous Periodical Returns . . . . . . . . . . . 327--346
Anonymous Report of the Council for the Financial
Year Ended 31st December, 1872, and for
the Sessional Year Ended with June,
1873, Presented at the Thirty-Ninth
Anniversary Meeting of the Statistical
Society, Held at the Society's Rooms,
12, St. James's Square, on 30th June,
1873; with the Proceedings of That
Meeting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 347--361
George Warde Norman An Attempt to Answer the Question, Why
it is that so Much Land is Occupied and
Cultivated by its Owners in France, and
Some Other European Countries on the
Continent, and so Little in England? . . 362--374
Henry Barron Suggestions for a Government Loan by
Means of a New Form of Security to be
Termed ``Accumulative Bonds'' . . . . . 375--385
Anonymous General Results of the Commercial and
Financial History and Review of 1872 . . 386--432
Anonymous The Progress of Indian Finance . . . . . 433--438
Anonymous Periodical Returns . . . . . . . . . . . 439--465
Anonymous Volume Information . . . . . . . . . . . 607--629
William A. Guy Inaugural Address Delivered at the
Society's Rooms, 12, St. James's Square,
London, on Tuesday, 18th November, 1873 467--485
W. E. Forster Address of the President of Section F
(Economic Science and Statistics) of the
British Association for the Advancement
of Science, at the Forty-Third Meeting,
which was Held at Bradford, September,
1873 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 486--501
Lord Houghton Opening Address of the President of the
Social Science Congress, at Norwich,
October, 1873 . . . . . . . . . . . . . 502--528
R. H. Inglis Palgrave On the Relation of the Banking Reserve
of the Bank of England to the Current
Rate of Interest, with an Inquiry into
Some of the Causes which have Led to the
Higher Rates Charged in Recent Years . . 529--564
Rowland Hill High Price of Coal. Suggestions for
Neutralising its Evils . . . . . . . . . 565--579
Anonymous Principal Additions to the Library of
the Society During 1873 . . . . . . . . 580--581
Anonymous The Land Tax . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 581--583
Anonymous The Swiss Post Office . . . . . . . . . 583--584
Anonymous Periodical Returns . . . . . . . . . . . 585--605
Anonymous Volume Information . . . . . . . . . . . i--viii
R. Dudley Baxter The Recent Progress of National Debts 1--20
F. H. Janson Some Statistics of the Courts of Justice
and of Legal Procedure in England . . . 21--47
Nathaniel Cork Statistics of Australasian Banking . . . 48--68
Henry Beverley The Census of Bengal . . . . . . . . . . 69--113
Anonymous Monsieur Quetelet . . . . . . . . . . . 114--115
Anonymous The Permanent Commission of the
International Statistical Congress . . . 115--117
Anonymous Statistics of a Portion of the Area of
the Famine in Bengal . . . . . . . . . . 117--123
Anonymous English Literature of 1873 . . . . . . . 123--125
Anonymous Periodical Returns . . . . . . . . . . . 126--150
Anonymous Additions to the Library During the
Quarter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 151--153
Leone Levi On the Reconstruction of the Income and
Property Tax . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 155--186
W. H. Millar Statistics of Deaths by Suicide among
Her Majesty's British Troops Serving at
Home and Abroad During the Ten Years
1862--71 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 187--192
John Biddulph Martin The Elections of 1868 and 1874 . . . . . 193--230
Anonymous General Results of the Commercial and
Financial History of 1873 . . . . . . . 230--241
Anonymous Railways in Germany and the Rise of
Wages and Prices, 1867--73 . . . . . . . 241--242
Anonymous Marine Insurance Losses in Recent Years 242--244
Anonymous The Banker's Clearing House . . . . . . 245--245
Anonymous The Stock Exchange Clearing House . . . 245--251
Anonymous Poor Law Administration in 1871--72 . . 251--255
Anonymous The Increase of European Armaments . . . 255--257
Anonymous The Movement of Agricultural Wages in
Europe . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 257--258
Anonymous Mineral Statistics of the United Kingdom 258--260
Anonymous Obstacles to Co-operative Production . . 260--264
Anonymous The Traffic of the Suez Canal . . . . . 264--264
Anonymous The Mercantile Navies of the World . . . 264--265
Anonymous The New and Old German Coinages . . . . 266--270
Anonymous Report of Deputation to the Right Hon.
Mr. Sclater-Booth, on the Registration
of Births and Deaths Bill . . . . . . . 270--273
Anonymous Periodical Returns . . . . . . . . . . . 274--293
Anonymous Additions to the Library During the
Quarter Ended 30th June, 1874 . . . . . 294--298
Anonymous Report of the Council for the Financial
Year Ended 31st December, 1873, and for
the Sessional Year Ended 30th June,
1874, Presented at the Fortieth
Anniversary Meeting of the Statistical
Society, Held at the Society's Rooms,
12, St. James's Square, on the 30th of
June, 1874, with the Proceedings of that
Meeting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 299--309
Anonymous Proceedings of the Fortieth Anniversary
Meeting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 310--312
Charles W. Dilke Local Government among Different Nations 313--326
E. W. Brabrook The Co-Operative Land Movement . . . . . 327--337
Lord O'Hagan Address of the President of Section F
(Economic Science and Statistics) of the
British Association for the Advancement
of Science, at the Forty-Fourth Meeting,
Which was Held at Belfast, August, 1874 338--349
Anonymous American Railways . . . . . . . . . . . 350--355
Anonymous Death-Rates in Sweden . . . . . . . . . 355--356
Anonymous The Commercial Position of France . . . 356--359
Anonymous The Customs Report on the Trade of 1873 359--365
Anonymous Statistical Abstracts . . . . . . . . . 365--370
Anonymous Italian Finance . . . . . . . . . . . . 370--374
Anonymous The Effective Population . . . . . . . . 374--376
Anonymous County Receipts and Expenditure in
England . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 376--377
Anonymous Poor Law Administration in 1873 . . . . 377--384
Anonymous Periodical Returns . . . . . . . . . . . 385--405
Anonymous Additions to the Library During the
Quarter Ended 30th September, 1874 . . . 406--410
Anonymous Volume Information . . . . . . . . . . . 571--595
William A. Guy Inaugural Address Delivered at the
Society's Rooms, Somerset House Terrace,
King's College, London, on Tuesday, 17th
November, 1874 . . . . . . . . . . . . . 411--436
N. A. Humphreys The Value of Death-Rates as a Test of
Sanitary Condition . . . . . . . . . . . 437--477
Anonymous The Mathematical Theory of Political
Economy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 478--488
George Campbell Opening Address of the President of the
Department. IV, ``Economy and Trade,''
of the National Association for the
Promotion of Social Science, at the
Eighteenth Annual Congress, held at
Glasgow, October, 1874 . . . . . . . . . 489--505
Anonymous Local Taxation . . . . . . . . . . . . . 506--510
Anonymous Mineral Statistics of the United Kingdom 510--516
Anonymous Agricultural Returns of Great Britain 516--518
Anonymous Physical and Mental Condition of the
Convict Population . . . . . . . . . . . 518--519
Anonymous Lloyd's Statistics of Marine Losses in
1872 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 519--531
Anonymous English Railways in 1873 . . . . . . . . 532--540
Anonymous Wages in France . . . . . . . . . . . . 540--542
Anonymous Periodical Returns . . . . . . . . . . . 543--562
Anonymous Additions to the Library During the
Quarter Ended 31st December, 1874 . . . 563--569
Anonymous Volume Information . . . . . . . . . . . i--viii
Dawson Burns The Consumption of Intoxicating Liquors
at Various Periods as Affected by the
Rates of Duty Imposed upon Them . . . . 1--32
Charles Gatliff On Improved Dwellings and Their
Beneficial Effect on Health and Morals,
with Suggestions for Their Extension . . 33--63
George Warde Norman The Future of the United States . . . . 64--78
Henry Jeula The Mercantile Navies of The World in
the Years 1870 and 1874 Compared . . . . 79--86
Anonymous Extended Operations of the
Registrar-General . . . . . . . . . . . 87--88
Anonymous The Death-Rate . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88--89
Anonymous Joint Stock Banks . . . . . . . . . . . 89--90
Anonymous English Literature in 1874 . . . . . . . 90--92
Anonymous Fires in the Metropolis During the Year
1874 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92--96
Anonymous The Trade and Manufactures of India . . 96--98
Anonymous Lloyd's Statistics of Marine Losses in
1873 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 98--111
Anonymous The Relative Strength of France and
Germany . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 112--118
Anonymous Periodical Returns . . . . . . . . . . . 119--145
Anonymous Additions to the Library During the
Quarter Ended 31st March, 1875 . . . . . 146--151
George H. Darwin Marriages Between First Cousins in
England and Their Effects . . . . . . . 153--184
E. W. Brabrook Friendly Societies and Similar
Institutions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 185--214
Stephen Bourne The Progress of Our Foreign Trade,
Imports and Exports, During the Past
Twenty Years . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 215--248
Anonymous International Exhibition and Congress of
Public Health and Safety, to be Held in
Brussels in 1876 . . . . . . . . . . . . 249--252
Anonymous Conference of Government Statists, South
Australia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 252--257
Anonymous General Results of the Commercial and
Financial History of 1874 . . . . . . . 257--266
Anonymous German Bank Act of the 30th January,
1875 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 267--282
Anonymous Periodical Returns . . . . . . . . . . . 283--302
Anonymous Additions to the Library During the
Quarter Ended 30th June, 1875 . . . . . 303--308
Anonymous Report of the Council for the Financial
Year Ended 31st December, 1874, and for
The Sessional Year Ended 29th June,
1875, Presented at the Forty-First
Anniversary Meeting of The Statistical
Society, Held at the Society's Rooms,
Somerset House Terrace (King's College
Entrance), Strand, W.C., London, on the
29th of June, 1875, With the Proceedings
of that Meeting . . . . . . . . . . . . 309--317
Anonymous Proceedings of the Forty-First
Anniversary Meeting . . . . . . . . . . 318--323
Thomas A. Welton The Effect of Migrations upon
Death-Rates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 324--343
George H. Darwin Note on the Marriages of First Cousins 344--348
James Heywood Address of the President of Section F
(Economic Science and Statistics) of the
British Association for the Advancement
of Science, at the Forty-Fifth Meeting,
which was Held at Bristol, August, 1875 349--360
Anonymous Pauperism and the Expense of Relief . . 361--363
Henry Jeula A Table Showing the Number of Vessels,
British and Foreign, Posted on ``Lloyd's
Loss Book,'' for Eighteen Years, from
1857 to 1874 Inclusive; with the
Percentage upon Total British Registered
Vessels from 1857 to 1869 Inclusive;
and, Subsequently the Percentage of
Sailing Vessels and Steamers
Respectively so Posted, upon the
Mercantile Sea-Going Sailing Vessels and
Steamers of Various Nations of the World
as Given in the ``Universal Mercantile
List'' Issued by the Bureau Veritas . . 364--367
Anonymous Trade and Condition of Belgium . . . . . 367--369
Anonymous Statement of the Area of Land Owned,
Area Occupied, Improved and Under Crops,
Pasture, Gardens, and Orchards, in Each
Province of Canada, According to the
Census of 1870--71 . . . . . . . . . . . 370--370
Anonymous Grain Producing States . . . . . . . . . 371--371
Anonymous The Railroads of the United Kingdom . . 371--375
Anonymous The Railroads of the United States . . . 375--379
Anonymous Population of Some of the Larger Towns
of Europe . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 379--382
Anonymous The Wheat Crop of 1875 . . . . . . . . . 382--384
Anonymous Periodical Returns . . . . . . . . . . . 385--405
Anonymous Additions to the Library During the
Quarter Ended 30th September, 1875 . . . 406--411
Anonymous Volume Information . . . . . . . . . . . 569--591
James Heywood The Inaugural Address of James Heywood,
Esq., M. A., F.R.S., President of the
Statistical Society, Delivered in
Tuesday, the 16th November, 1875 . . . . 413--421
E. G. Ravenstein Statistics at the Paris Geographical
Congress . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 422--429
William A. Guy John Howard's True Place in History. A
Supplement to the Paper Entitled ``John
Howard as Statist.'' . . . . . . . . . . 430--437
William Emery Stark Statistics Relating to the Colony of
Victoria, Australia . . . . . . . . . . 438--462
William A. Guy On the Executions for Murder that have
Taken Place in England and Wales During
the Last Seventy Years . . . . . . . . . 463--486
A. J. Verwey Principles of Vital Statistics . . . . . 487--513
John T. Burt Principles of Penal Legislation . . . . 514--516
J. A. Baynes Memorandum on the Cost, Traffic, and
Workings of the Railways in the United
Kingdom and in India, for the Year 1874,
Compared with 1873 . . . . . . . . . . . 516--526
Anonymous Statistics of the Consumption of Sugar,
Melada, and Molasses in the United
States from 1860 to 1873 Inclusive . . . 526--532
Anonymous The Commerce of Spain . . . . . . . . . 532--536
Anonymous Some Statistical Items Relating to the
Gradutes and Present Members of Amherst
College, Massachusetts, United States of
America, July, 1875 . . . . . . . . . . 536--537
Anonymous Some Early Statistics of France . . . . 537--538
Anonymous Progress of South Australia . . . . . . 538--539
Anonymous Periodical Returns . . . . . . . . . . . 540--559
Anonymous Additions to the Library During the
Quarter Ended 31st December, 1875 . . . 560--568
Anonymous Volume Information . . . . . . . . . . . i--viii
John Dun The Banking Institutions, Bullion
Reserves, and Non-Legal-Tender Note
Circulation of the United Kingdom
Statistically Investigated . . . . . . . 1--197
M. E. Grant Duff Opening Address of the President of the
Department IV, ``Economy and Trade,'' of
the National Association for the
Promotion of Social Science, at the
Nineteenth Annual Congress, held at
Brighton, in October, 1875 . . . . . . . 198--210
George Warde Norman Some Remarks on the Land Laws of England 211--218
Anonymous The Climate, Agriculture, Commerce, &c.,
of Egypt . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 218--223
Anonymous Lloyd's Statistics of Marine Losses in
1874 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 223--237
Anonymous The Fires in London During the Year
1875, and the Metropolitan Fire Brigade 238--241
Anonymous English Literature in 1875 . . . . . . . 241--243
Anonymous Periodical Returns . . . . . . . . . . . 244--270
Anonymous Additions to the Library During the
Quarter Ended 31st March, 1876 . . . . . 271--276
Robert Baxter On the Principles which Regulate the
Rate of Interest and on the Currency
Laws . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 277--298
Charles W. Dilke On the Municipal Government of Paris . . 299--310
Frederic J. Mouat On International Prison Statistics . . . 311--331
Herbert S. Skeats Statistics Relating to the Support of
Religious Institutions in England and
Wales . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 332--349
Harry Chubb The Supply of Gas to the Metropolis . . 350--380
Anonymous General Results of the Commercial and
Financial History of 1875 . . . . . . . 381--391
Anonymous The Bankers' Clearing House . . . . . . 392--392
Anonymous The Domesday Book of 1873 . . . . . . . 393--410
Anonymous The Census of British India of 1871--72 411--416
Anonymous A Table of Peerages, Steps in the
Peerage, and Baronetcies, Conferred by
the Several Governments from 1830--74 417--417
Anonymous Periodical Returns . . . . . . . . . . . 418--437
Anonymous Additions to the Library During the
Quarter Ended 30th June, 1876 . . . . . 438--443
Anonymous Report of the Council for the Financial
Year ended 31st December, 1875, and for
the Sessional Year ended 27th June,
1876, Presented at the Forty-Second
Anniversary Meeting of the Statistical
Society, Held at the Society's Rooms,
Somerset House Terrace (King's College
Entrance), Strand, W.C., London, on the
27th of June, 1876, with the Proceedings
of that Meeting . . . . . . . . . . . . 445--458
Anonymous Proceedings of the Forty-Second
Anniversary Meeting . . . . . . . . . . 459--463
William Farr On the Valuation of Railways,
Telegraphs, Water Companies, Canals, and
Other Commercial Concerns, with
Prospective, Deferred, Increasing,
Decreasing, or Terminating Profits . . . 464--539
James Stansfeld On the Validity of the Annual Government
Statistics of the Operation of the
Contagious Diseases Acts . . . . . . . . 540--572
Anonymous Consul-General Playfair's Reports upon
Algeria . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 573--577
Anonymous Lloyd's Statistics of Marine Losses for
the Year 1875 . . . . . . . . . . . . . 577--591
Anonymous Underwriting in the Year 1805 . . . . . 592--593
Anonymous Periodical Returns . . . . . . . . . . . 594--614
Anonymous Additions to the Library During the
Quarter Ended 30th September, 1876 . . . 615--619
Anonymous Volume Information . . . . . . . . . . . 771--794
James Heywood The Opening Address of James Heywood,
Esq., M.A., F.R.S., President of the
Statistical Society, Delivered on
Tuesday, the 21st November, 1876 . . . . 621--627
Frederic J. Mouat Preliminary Report of the Ninth
International Statistical Congress, Held
at Buda-Pesth, from 1st to 7th
September, 1876 . . . . . . . . . . . . 628--647
George Campbell Address of the President of the Economic
Science and Statistical Section of the
British Association for the Advancement
of Science, at the Forty-Sixth Meeting,
Held at Glasgow, September, 1876 . . . . 648--660
G. J. Shaw Lefevre Address of the President of the
Department of ``Economy and Trade''
Section National Association for the
Promotion of Social Science, at the
Twentieth Annual Congress, Held at
Liverpool, in October, 1876 . . . . . . 661--680
Charles Roberts The Physical Requirements of Factory
Children . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 681--733
Anonymous Hungarian Statistics . . . . . . . . . . 734--739
Anonymous Condensed Statistics . . . . . . . . . . 739--741
Anonymous The Depreciation of Silver . . . . . . . 741--744
Anonymous Periodical Returns . . . . . . . . . . . 745--764
Anonymous Additions to the Library During the
Quarter Ended 31st December, 1876 . . . 765--770
Anonymous Volume Information . . . . . . . . . . . i--viii
Leone Levi Statistical Results of the Recent
Treaties of Commerce Between Different
States of Europe . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--18
Stephen Bourne The Growing Preponderance of Imports
Over Exports in the Foreign and Colonial
Trade of the United Kingdom . . . . . . 19--41
Francis G. P. Neison Some Statistics of the Affiliated Orders
of Friendly Societies (Odd Fellows and
Foresters) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42--89
Archibald Hamilton On the Recent Economic Progress of New
Zealand . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90--130
Anonymous Report by Dr. Mayr on the Exhibition of
Charts and Diagrams at the Ninth
International Statistical Congress, Held
at Buda-Pesth, in September, 1876 . . . 131--136
Anonymous The Fires of London During the Year
1876, and the Metropolitan Fire Brigade 136--140
Anonymous English Literature in 1876 . . . . . . . 140--142
Anonymous Wrecks and Sun Spots . . . . . . . . . . 143--144
Anonymous Periodical Returns . . . . . . . . . . . 145--170
Anonymous Additions to the Library During the
Quarter Ended 31st March, 1877 . . . . . 171--176
Anonymous The Mortality of Hospitals, General and
Special, in the United Kingdom, in Times
Past and Present . . . . . . . . . . . . 177--261
P. G. Craigie The Cost of English Local Government . . 262--296
Anonymous General Results of the Commercial and
Financial History of 1876 . . . . . . . 297--308
Anonymous Lloyd's Statistics of Marine Losses for
the Year 1876 . . . . . . . . . . . . . 308--323
Anonymous Additions to the Library During the
Quarter Ended 30th June, 1877 . . . . . 324--331
Anonymous Report of the Council for the Financial
Year ended 31st December, 1876, and for
the Sessional Year Ended 26th June,
1877, Presented at the Forty-Third
Anniversary Meeting of the Statistical
Society, held at the Society's Rooms,
Somerset House Terrace (King's College
Entrance), Strand, W.C., London, on the
26th of June, 1877, with the Proceedings
of that Meeting . . . . . . . . . . . . 333--341
Anonymous Proceedings of the Forty-Third
Anniversary Meeting . . . . . . . . . . 342--346
Cornelius Walford Fires and Fire Insurance Considered
Under their Historical, Financial,
Statistical, and National Aspects . . . 347--432
E. G. Ravenstein The Populations of Russia and Turkey . . 433--467
Anonymous Economic Science and the British
Association . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 468--476
Anonymous Russian Financial Statistics . . . . . . 476--485
Anonymous English Railways in 1876 . . . . . . . . 485--497
Anonymous Notes on Recent Additions to the Library 497--500
Anonymous Additions to the Library During the
Quarter Ended 30th September, 1877 . . . 501--508
Anonymous Volume Information . . . . . . . . . . . 679--705
G. J. Shaw-Lefevre Inaugural Address of G. J. Shaw-Lefevre,
Esq., M.P., President of the Statistical
Society, Delivered on Tuesday, the 20th
November, 1877 . . . . . . . . . . . . . 509--530
Frederic J. Mouat Second and Concluding Report of the
Ninth International Statistical
Congress, held in Buda-Pesth, in
September, 1876 . . . . . . . . . . . . 531--556
Earl Fortescue Extracts from the Address of the
President of Section F, ``Economic
Science and Statistics,'' of the British
Association for the Advancement of
Science, at the Forty-Seventh Meeting,
held at Plymouth, August, 1877 . . . . . 557--567
William Farr On Some Doctrines of Population. A Paper
Read in Section F of the British
Association, at Plymouth, in August Last 568--581
Anonymous Mr. Caird's Address at Aberdeen . . . . 582--592
Frederick Martin Births, Deaths, and Marriages, and the
Comparative Progress of Population in
Some of the Principal Countries of
Europe . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 593--613
Edward W. Brabrook Abstract of a Report Published by the
Italian Government on the International
Statistics of Savings Banks . . . . . . 614--630
F. R. S. The Proposed Discontinuance of Section
F, Economic Science and Statistics, at
the British Association . . . . . . . . 631--633
Anonymous Turkish Resource . . . . . . . . . . . . 633--645
Anonymous The Excess of Imports . . . . . . . . . 645--650
Anonymous Agricultural Returns for 1877 . . . . . 651--659
Anonymous Notices of New Books . . . . . . . . . . 660--667
Anonymous Additions to the Library During the
Quarter Ended 31st December, 1877 . . . 668--677
Anonymous Volume Information . . . . . . . . . . . i--viii
Robert Giffen Recent Accumulations of Capital in the
United Kingdom . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--39
Ernest Seyd Diagrams Exhibiting the Positions of The
Bank of England, The Bank of France, The
German Reichsbank, The National Bank of
Austria, The Netherlands Bank, The
National Bank of Belgium, The National
Bank of Italy, and The State Bank of
Russia; with Remarks thereon and
References to the Note Issue System of
The Bank of England . . . . . . . . . . 40--86
A. J. Mundella What are the Conditions on which the
Commercial and Manufacturing Supremacy
of Great Britain Depend, and is there
any Reason to think they have been, or
may be, Endangered? . . . . . . . . . . 87--134
Anonymous The Fires of London During the Year
1877, and the Metropolitan Fire Brigade 135--138
Anonymous English Literature in 1877 . . . . . . . 138--141
Anonymous The Profits of Joint Stock Banking in
the United Kingdom . . . . . . . . . . . 141--148
Anonymous Trade of the Chinese Treaty Ports . . . 149--150
Maurice Block Notices of New Books . . . . . . . . . . 151--160
Anonymous Additions to the Library during the
Quarter Ended 31st March, 1878 . . . . . 161--166
Anonymous Periodical Returns . . . . . . . . . . . 167--186
William Newmarch On the Progress of the Foreign Trade of
the United Kingdom since 1856, with
Especial Reference to the Effects
Produced Upon it by the Protectionist
Tariffs of Other Countries . . . . . . . 187--298
Hyde Clarke On the Debts of Sovereign and
Quasi-Sovereign States, Owing by Foreign
Countries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 299--347
Anonymous General Results of the Commercial and
Financial History of 1877 . . . . . . . 348--366
Anonymous Lloyd's Statistics of Marine Casualties
for the Year 1877 . . . . . . . . . . . 366--383
Anonymous Failures in England and Wales . . . . . 384--386
Stephen Bourne The Nature and Extent of our Foreign
Food Supplies, and the Sources from
whence they are Derived . . . . . . . . 386--398
Anonymous Bibliography of Works on the
Mathematical Theory of Political Economy 398--401
Anonymous Periodical Returns . . . . . . . . . . . 401--407
Anonymous Additions to the Library During the
Quarter Ended 30th June, 1878 . . . . . 408--414
Anonymous Report of the Council for the Financial
Year Ended 31st December, 1877, and for
the Sessional Year Ended 25th June,
1878, Presented at the Forty-Fourt
Anniversary Meeting of the Statistical
Society, Held at the Society's Rooms,
King's College Entrance, Strand, London,
on the 25th of June, 1878, and of the
Proceedings at the Meeting . . . . . . . 415--424
Anonymous Proceedings of the Forty-Fourth
Anniversary Meeting . . . . . . . . . . 425--426
G. J. Shaw-Lefevre The Depression of Trade . . . . . . . . 427--432
Cornelius Walford The Famines of the World: Past and
Present . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 433--535
James Heywood The Owens College, Manchester, and a
Northern University . . . . . . . . . . 536--548
Anonymous The Permanent Commission of the
International Statistical Congress . . . 549--550
Anonymous Statistical Conferences at Paris . . . . 550--551
Anonymous Enteric Fever and Milk Supply . . . . . 551--559
Anonymous Notices of New Books . . . . . . . . . . 559--562
Anonymous Additions to the Library . . . . . . . . 562--564
Anonymous Additions to the Library . . . . . . . . 564--572
Anonymous Volume Information . . . . . . . . . . . 689--711
G. J. Shaw-Lefevre The Opening Address of G. J.
Shaw-Lefevre, Esq., M.P., President of
the Statistical Society, Delivered on
Tuesday, the 19th November, 1878 . . . . 573--596
W. Stanley Jevons Remarks on the Statistical Use of the
Arithmometer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 597--601
Professor Ingram Address of the President of Section F of
the British Association, at the
Forty-Eighth Meeting, Held at Dublin, in
August, 1878 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 602--629
Alfred Edmund Bateman The Statistics of Canada . . . . . . . . 630--636
Bonamy Price Address of the President of the
Department of Economy and Trade of the
National Association for the Promotion
of Social Science, at the Twenty-Second
Annual Congress Held at Cheltenham, in
October, 1878 . . . . . . . . . . . . . 637--653
Anonymous Agricultural Returns for 1878 . . . . . 654--661
Anonymous The Commissariat of Paris . . . . . . . 662--666
Anonymous Notes on Economical and Statistical
Works . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 666--672
Anonymous Notes on Additions to the Library . . . 672--687
Anonymous Volume Information . . . . . . . . . . . i--viii
Frederic J. Mouat Reports on: 1. The Fourth Session of the
Permanent Commission of the
International Statistical Congress, Held
in Paris, 10th--20th July, 1878; 2. The
First Session of the International
Congress of Demography and Medical
Geography, held in Paris, 5th--10th
July, 1878; 3. The Second Session of the
International Prison Congress, Held in
Stockholm, 20th--27th August, 1878 . . . 1--35
Robert Giffen On the Fall of Prices of Commodities in
Recent Years . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36--78
Cornelius Walford The Famines of the World: Past and
Present --- Part II . . . . . . . . . . 79--275
Anonymous Financial and Commercial History of 1878 276--305
Anonymous Prices of Exports from 1861 to 1877 . . 305--321
Anonymous The Fires of London during the Year
1878, and the Metropolitan Fire Brigade 322--325
Anonymous English Literature in 1878 . . . . . . . 325--328
Anonymous University Boat Races and Sun-Spot
Cycles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 328--329
Anonymous A Suggested Coincidence Between the
Death-Rate and the Motions of the Planet
Jupiter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 330--331
Anonymous Notes on Economical and Statistical
Works . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 331--334
Anonymous Notes on Additions to the Library . . . 334--344
Anonymous Periodical Returns . . . . . . . . . . . 345--368
Henry Heylyn Hayter The Colony of Victoria: Its Progress and
Present Position . . . . . . . . . . . . 369--405
Stephen Bourne On Some Phases of the Silver Question 406--455
W. Neilson Hancock The Feasibility of Compulsory Education
in Ireland . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 456--479
Anonymous General Results of the Commercial and
Financial History of 1878 . . . . . . . 480--504
Anonymous Bankers' Clearing House Returns . . . . 504--505
Anonymous Lloyd's Statistics of Marine Casualties
for the Year 1878 . . . . . . . . . . . 505--521
Anonymous Statistical Results of the Last Census
of the Population of France . . . . . . 522--528
A. Vesselovsky The Movement of Travellers between
European Russia and Foreign Countries
from 1857 to 1876 . . . . . . . . . . . 528--534
Anonymous Farmers' and Landowners' Losses . . . . 535--538
Anonymous Notes on Economical and Statistical
Works . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 539--543
Anonymous Notes on Recent Additions to the Library 543--558
Anonymous Report of the Council for the Financial
Year ended 31st December, 1878, and for
the Sessional Year ending 30th June,
1879, Presented at the Forty-Fifth
Anniversary Meeting of the Statistical
Society, held at the Society's Rooms,
Somerset House Terrace (King's College
Entrance), Strand, London, on the 30th
of June, 1879, with an Account of the
Proceedings at the Meeting . . . . . . . 559--572
Anonymous Proceedings of the Forty-Fifth
Anniversary Meeting . . . . . . . . . . 573--578
E. G. Ravenstein On the Celtic Languages in the British
Isles; a Statistical Survey . . . . . . 579--643
William A. Guy On Tabular Analysis . . . . . . . . . . 644--662
John B. Martin On Some Effects of a Crisis on the
Banking Interest . . . . . . . . . . . . 663--708
Anonymous The Gazette Average Prices of Corn . . . 709--723
Anonymous Miscellaneous Statistics of the United
Kingdom . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 724--727
Anonymous Notes on Economical and Statistical
Works . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 727--736
Anonymous Additions to the Library, with Notes . . 736--749
Anonymous Volume Information . . . . . . . . . . . 883--909
Thomas Brassey Agriculture in England and the United
States. The Inaugural Address of Thomas
Brassey, Esq., M.P., President of the
Statistical Society, Delivered on
Tuesday, the 18th of November, 1879 . . 751--764
Anonymous Proceedings on the 18th November, 1879 765--770
G. Shaw-Lefevre Address of the President of Section F,
``Economic Science and Statistics,'' of
the British Association, at the
Forty-Ninth Meeting, held at Sheffield,
in August, 1879 . . . . . . . . . . . . 771--783
Anonymous Statistics in Parliament . . . . . . . . 784--790
Anonymous Agricultural Returns for 1879 . . . . . 790--808
Anonymous The Crops of 1879 . . . . . . . . . . . 808--816
William Newmarch The Increase in the Number of Banks and
Branches in the Metropolis; the English
Counties; Scotland and Ireland; during
the Twenty Years 1858--78, with
Deductions Relating to the Clearing
House Returns, the Increase on the
Average Annual Circulation of Bank of
England . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 817--844
Anonymous With what Margin of Uncalled Capital may
the Leading Unlimited Banks Safely
Become Limited? . . . . . . . . . . . . 844--848
Anonymous The Influence of the Price of Goods on
the Movements of the Foreign Trade of
France . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 848--857
Anonymous Statistics of Australasian Colonies . . 858--859
Anonymous Notes on Some of the Additions to the
Library . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 860--873
Anonymous Additions to the Library During the
Quarter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 873--882