RESEARCHES IN SCIENCE. XVII 



Report of the Dublin Committee on the Pathology of the Brain and 

 Nervous System. 



Account of the Recent 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. 



Observations for determining the Refractive Indices for the Standard Rays 

 of the Solar Spectrum in various media, by the Rev. Baden Powell, M.A., 

 F.R.S., Savilian Professor of Geometry in the University of Oxford. 



Provisional Report on the Communication between the Arteries and 

 Absorbents, on the part of the London Committee, by Dr. Hodgkin. 



Report of Experiments on Subterranean Temperature, under the direction 

 of a Committee, consisting of Professor Forbes, Mr. W. S. Harris, Professor 

 Powell, Lieut-Colonel Sykes, and Professor Phillips (Reporter). 



Inquiry into the validity of a method recently proposed by George B, 

 Jerrard, Esq., for Transforming and Resolving Equations of Elevated De- 

 grees; 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 ^oney 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 diflerence 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 Rev. 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, 

 &c. 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. (Reportei;). 



On the Relative Strength and other Mechanical Properties of Cast Iron ob- 

 tained by Hot and Cold Blast, by Eaton Hodgkinson, Esq. 



On thejStrength 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 

 1844. b 



