CONTENTS. 



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Objects and Rules of the Association v 



Officers and Council viii 



Treasurer's Account xi 



Reports, Researches, and Desiderata xii 



Address of Dr. Daubeny xxi 



REPORTS ON THE STATE OF SCIENCE. 



Report on the Present State of our Knowledge with respect to 

 Mineral and Thermal Waters. By Charles Daubeny, M.D., 

 F.R.S., M.R.I.A., &c.. Professor of Chemistiy and of Botany. 

 Oxford 1 



Observations on the Direction and Intensity of the Terrestrial 

 Magnetic Force in Scotland. By Major Edwaed Sabine, R.A., 

 F.R.S., &c 97 



Report on North American Zoology. By John Richardson, 

 M.D., F.R.S., &c 121 



Supplementary Report on the Mathematical Theory of Fluids. 

 By the Rev. J. Challis, Plumian Professor of Astronomy in 

 the University of Cambridge 225 



Comparative View of the more remarkable Plants which charac- 

 terize the Neighbourhood of Dublin, the Neighbourhood of 

 Edinburgh, and the South-west of Scotland, &c. ; drawn up 

 for the British Association, by J. T. Mackay, M.R.I.A., A.L.S., 

 &c., assisted by Robert Graham, Esq., M.D., Professor of Bo- 

 tany in the University of Edinburgh 253 



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