RE SEARCHES IN SCIENCE. Xxi 
Notice of Experiments in progress, at the desire of the 
British Association, on the Action of a Heat of 212° Fahr., 
when long continued, on Inorganic and Organic Substances, 
by Robert Mallet, M.R.I.A. 
Experiments on the ultimate Transverse Strength of Cast 
Iron made at Arigna Works, Co. Leitrim, Ireland, at Messrs. 
Bramah and Robinson’s, 29th May, 1837. 
Provisional Reports, and Notices of Progress in Special Re- 
searches entrusted to Committees and Individuals. 
1839. 
_ Report on the application of the sum assigned for Tide Calcula- 
tions to Mr. Whewell, ina Letter from T. G. Bunt, Esq., Bristol. 
Notice of Determination of the Arc of Longitude between 
the Observatories of Armagh and Dublin, by the Rev. T. R. 
Robinson, D.D., &c. 
Report of some Galvanic Experiments to determine the 
existence or non-existence of Electrical Currents among Stra- 
tified Rocks, particularly those of the Mountain Limestone 
formation, constituting the Lead Measures of Alston Moor, 
by H. L. Pattinson, Esq. 
Report respecting the two series of Hourly Meteorological 
Observations kept in Scotland at the expense of the British 
Association, by Sir David Brewster, K.H., LL.D., F.R.SS. 
L. and E. 
Report on the subject of a series of Resolutions adopted 
by the British Association at their Meeting in August 1838, 
at Newcastle. 
Report on British Fossil Reptiles, by Richard Owen, Esq., 
F.R.S., F.G.S., &c. 
Third Report on the Progress of the Hourly Meteorological 
Register at the Plymouth Dock-yard, Devonport, by W. Snow 
Harris, Esq., F.R.S. 
1840. 
Report on Professor Whewell’s Anemometer, now in opera- 
tion at Plymouth, by W. Snow Harris, Esq., F.R.S., &c. 
Report on the Motions and Sounds of the Heart, by the 
London Committee of the British Association for 1839-40. 
An Account of Researches in Electro-Chemistry, by Pro- 
fessor Schénbein, of Basle. 
Second Report upon the Action of Air and Water, whether 
fresh or salt, clear or foul, and at various temperatures, upon 
Cast Iron, Wrought Iron, and Steel, by Robert Mallet, 
M.R.I.A., Ass. Ins. C.E. 
Report on the Observations recorded during the Years 1837, 
