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PROCEEDINGS or tue EIGHTH MEETING, at Newcastle, 1838, 
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Contents :—Rev. W. Whewell, Account of a Level Line, measured from the 
Bristol Channel to the English Channel, by Mr. Bunt ;—Report on the Discussions 
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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Recommendaticns of the Association and its Committees. 
PROCEEDINGS or tuz NINTH MEETING, at Birmingham, 1839, 9s. 
Contents :—Rev. Baden Powell, Report on the Present State of our Knowledge 
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 Mollusca in the British Isles ;— 
W. Snow Harris, Esq., Third Report on the Progress of the Hourly Meteorological 
Register at the Plymouth Dockyard, Devonport. 
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PROCEEDINGS or tot TENTH MEETING, at Glasgow, 1840, 10s. 
Contents :—Reyv. Baden Powell, Report on the recent Progress of discovery 
relative to Radiant Heat, supplementary to a former Repcrt on the same subject in- 
serted in the first volume of the Reports of the British Association for the Advance- 
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 
London Committee of the British Association, for 1839-40 ;—Professor Schénbein, 
an Account of Researches in Electro-Chemistry ;—Robert Mallet, Esq., Second Re- 
port 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 ;—Robert Were 
Fox, Esq., Report on some Observations on Subterranean Temperature ;—A. Follett 
Osler, Esq., Report on the Observations recorded during the years 1837, 1838, 1839 
and 1840, by the Self-Registering Anemometer erected at the Philosophical Institu- 
tion, Birmingham ;—Sir David Brewster, Report respecting the two Series of Hourly 
Meteorological Observations kept at Inverness and Kingussie, at the expense of the 
British Association, from Nov. Ist, 1838, to Nov. Ist, 1839;—William Thompson, 
Esq., Report on the Fauna of Ireland: Div. Vertebrata ;—Charles J. B. Williams, 
M.D., Report of Experiments on the Physiology of the Lungs and Air-'Tubes ;—Rey. 
J. S. Henslow, Report of the Committee appointed to try Experiments on the Pre- 
servation of Animal and Vegetable Substances. 
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ward Sabine’s Address, and Recommendations of the Association and its Com- 
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- PROCEEDINGS or raz ELEVENTH MEETING, at Plymouth, 
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Rey. Philip Kelland, on the Present State of our Theoretical and Experimental 
