Association, appointed to investigate the Composition of Secretions, and the organs 

 producing them j — Dr. G. O. Rees, Report from the Committee for Inquiring into 

 the Analysis of the Glands, &c. of the Human Body ; — Second Report of the 

 London Sub-Committee of the British Association Medical Section, on the Motions 

 and Sounds of the Heart ; — Prof. Johnston, on the Present State of our Knowledge 

 in regard to Dimorphous Bodies; — Col. Sykes, on the Statistics of the Four Collec- 

 torates of Dukhun, under the British Government ; — Eaton Hodgkinson, Esq., on 

 the relative Strength and other Mechanical Properties of Iron obtained from the 

 Hot and Cold Blast; — William Fairbairn, Esq., on the Strength and other Proper- 

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 Scott Russell, Esq., Report of the Committee on Waves, appointed by the British 

 Association at Bristol in 1836; — Note by Major Sabine, being an Appendix to his 

 Report on the Variations of the Magnetic Intensity observed at different Points of 

 the Earth's Surface; — James Yates, on the Growth of Plants under Glass, and with- 

 out any free communication with the outward Air, on the Plan of Mr. N. J. Ward, 

 of London. 



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PROCEEDINGS of the EIGHTH MEETING, at Newcastle, 1838, 

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Contents : — Rev. W. Whewell, Account of a Level Line, measured from the 

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 of Tides, prepared under the direction of the Rev. W. Whewell; — W. Snow Harris, 

 Esq., Account of the Progress and State of the Meteorological Observations at Ply- 

 mouth ; — Major Edward Sabine, on the Magnetic Isoclinal and Isodynamic Lines in 

 the British Islands ; — D. Lardner, LL.D., on the Determination of the Mean Nu- 

 merical Values of Railway Constants;— R. Mallet, Esq., First Report upon Experi- 

 ments upon the Action of Sea and River Water upon Cast and Wrought Iron; — 

 R. Mallet, Esq., on the Action of a Heat of 212° Fahr., when long continued, on 

 Inorganic and Organic Substances. 



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 Recommendations of the Association and its Committees. 



PROCEEDINGS of the NINTH MEETING, at Birmingham, 1839, 9*. 



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 of Refractive Indices, for the Standard Rays of the Solar Spectrum in different 

 media; — Report on the Application of the Sum assigned for Tide Calculations to 

 Mr. Whewell, in a Letter from T. G. Bunt, Esq. ; — H. L. Pattinson, Esq., on some 

 Galvanic Experiments to determine the Existence or Non-existence of Electrical Cur- 

 rents among Stratified Rocks, particularly those of the Mountain Limestone forma- 

 tion, constituting the Lead Measures of Alston Moor ; — Sir David Brewster, Reports 

 respecting the two series of Hourly Meteorological Observations kept in Scotland at 

 the expense of the British Association ; — Report on the subject of a series of Reso- 

 lutions adopted by the British Association at their Meeting in August 1838, at New- 

 castle ; — Richard Owen, Esq., Report on British Fossil Reptiles ; Edward Forbes, 

 Esq., Report on the Distribution of Pulmoniferous Mcllusca in the British Isles; — 

 W. Snow Harris, Esq., Third Report on the Progress of the Hourly Meteorological 

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 ment of Science; — James D.Forbes, Esq., Supplementary Report on Meteorology; 

 • — W. Snow Harris, Esq., Report on Professor Whewell's Anemometer, now in ope- 

 ration at Plymouth ; — Report on " The Motions and Sounds of the Heart," by the 



