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RESEARCHES IN SCIENCE. Xvi 
Inquiry into the validity of a method recently proposed by George B. 
Jerrard, Esq., for Transforming and Resolving Equations of Elevated Degrees; 
undertaken, at the request of the Association, by Professor Sir W. R. Hamilton. 
1837. 
Account of the Discussions of Observations of the Tides which have been 
obtained by means of the grant of money which was placed at the disposal 
of the Author for that purpose at the last Meeting of the Association, by J. 
W. Lubbock, Esq., F.R.S. 
On the difference between the Composition of Cast Iron produced by the 
Cold and the Hot Blast, by Thomas Thomson, M.D., F.R.SS. L. & E., &c., 
Professor of Chemistry, Glasgow. 
On the Determination of the Constant of Nutation by the Greenwich Ob- 
servations, made as commanded by the British Association, by the Rey. T. 
_R. Robinson, D.D. 
On some Experiments on the Electricity of Metallic Veins, and the Tem- 
perature of Mines, by Robert Were Fox. 
Provisional Report of the Committee of the Medical Section of the British 
Association, appointed to investigate the Composition of Secretions, and the 
Organs producing them. 
Report from the Committee for inquiring into the Analysis of the Glands, 
&e. of the Human Body, by G. O. Rees, M.D., F.G.S. 
Second Report of the London Sub-Committee of the Medical Section of 
the British Association, on the Motions and Sounds of the Heart. 
Report from the Committee for making experiments on the Growth of 
Plants under Glass, and without any free communication with the outward 
air, on the plan of Mr. N. I. Ward of London. 
Report of the Committee on Waves, appointed by the British Association 
at Bristol in 1836, and consisting of Sir John Robison, K.H., Secretary of 
the Royal Society of Edinburgh, and John Scott Russell, Esq., M.A. F.R.S. 
Edin. (Reporter). 
On the Relative Strength and other mechanical Properties of Cast Iron ob- 
- tained by Hot and Cold Blast, by Eaton Hodgkinson, Esq. 
On the Strength and other Properties of Iron obtained from the Hot and 
Cold Blast, by W. Fairbairn, Esq. 
\ 1838. 
' Account of a Level Line, measured from the Bristol Channel to the En- 
glish Channel, during the year 1837-38, by Mr. Bunt, under the Direction 
of a Committee of the British Association. Drawn up by the Rev. W. 
Whewell, F.R.S., one of the Committee. 
A Memoir on the Magnetic Isoclinal and Isodynamic Lines in the British 
Islands, from observations by Professors Humphrey Lloyd and John Phil- 
lips, Robert Were Fox, Esq., Captain James Clark Ross, R.N., and Major 
Edward Sabine, R.A., by Major Edward Sabine, R.A., F.R.S. 
First Report on the Determination of the Mean Numerical Values of Rail- 
areal by Dionysius Lardner, LL.D., F.R.S., &e. 
_ First Report upon Experiments instituted at the request of the British 
Association, upon the Action of Sea and River Water, whether clear or foul, 
and at various temperatures, upon Cast and Wrought Iron, by Robert Mal- 
let, M.R.I.A., Ass. Ins. C.E. 
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.LA. 
Experiments on the ultimate Transverse Strength of Cast Iron made at 
