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SECTIONAL MEETINGS. 



The Sections assembled daily at eleven a.m., in the Class 

 Rooms of the College, to hear the communications in different 

 departments of science prepared to be laid before them by the 

 secretaries of their respective committees. 



The following is a list of the communications which were 

 made to the meeting, divided into four classes : 1st, Reports 

 on the state and progress of science, drawn up at the request of 

 the Association ; 2nd, Accounts of researches undertaken at the 

 request of the Association ; 3rd, Notices in answer to queries and 

 recommendations proceeding from the Association ; 4th, Miscel- 

 laneous communications. 



I. Reports on the State and Progress of Science, drawn up 



at the request of the. Association. 



On the Geology of North America, Part I. By Professor 

 Rogers. 



On the State of our Knowledge of the Laws of Contagion. 

 By Dr. Henry. 



On Animal Physiology. By Dr. Clark, Professor of Ana- 

 tomy, Cambridge. 



On the recent Progress and present State of Zoology. By 

 the Rev. L. Jenyns. 



On the Theory of Capillary Attraction. By the Rev. James 

 Challis. 



On the Progress and present State of the Science of Physical 

 Optics. By the Rev. H. Lloyd, Professor of Nat. Phil. Dublin. 



On the Progress of Hydraulics considered as a Branch of En- 

 gineering: Part II. By George Rennie. 



II . Accounts of Researches undertaken at the request of the 



Association. 



Remarks on the relative Level of Land and Sea, &c. By 

 Robert Stevenson, Engineer. 



Results of a Second Series of twelve months' observations 

 on the Quantities of Rain falling at different elevations above 

 the ground. By William Gray, jun., and Professor Phillips. 



Account of the institution of Experiments on the effects of 

 long-continued Heat. By the Rev. W. V. Harcourt. 



Account of researches in Crystallography. By Professor 

 Miller. 



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