Constants ; — Edward Woods, Report on Railway Constants ; — Report of a Committee on the 

 Construction of a Constant Indicator for Steam-Engines. 



Together with the Transactions of the Sections, Prof. Whewell's Address, and Recommen- 

 dations of the Association and its Committees. 



PROCEEDINGS of the TWELFTH MEETING, at Manchester, 



1842, 7*. 



Contents : — Report of the Committee appointed to conduct the co-operation of the British 

 Association in the System of Simultaneous Magnetical and Meteorological Observations ; — 

 John Richardson, M.D., Report on the present state of the Ichthyology of New Zealand ; — 

 W. Snow Harris, Report on the Progress of the Meteorological Observations at Plymouth ; — 

 Second Report of a Committee appointed to make Experiments on the Growth and Vitality of 

 Seeds ; — C. Vignolles, Esq., Report of the Committee on Railway Sections; — Report of the 

 Committee for the Preservation of Animal and Vegetable Substances; — Lyon Playfair, M.D., 

 Abstract of Professor Liebig's Report on " Organic Chemistry applied to Physiology and Pa- 

 thology ;" — Richard Owen, Esq., Report on the British Fossil Mammalia, Part I. ; — Robert 

 Hunt, Researches on the Influence of Light on the Germination of Seeds and the Growth of 

 Plants ; — Louis Agassiz, Report on the Fossil Fishes of the Devonian System or Old Red Sand- 

 stone; — William Fairbairn, l';sq., Appendix to a Report on the Strength and other Properties 

 of Cast Iron obtained from the Hot and Cold Blast; — David Milne, Esq., Report of the Com- 

 mittee appointed at the Meeting of the British Association held at Plymouth in 1841, for re- 

 gistering Shocks of Earthquakes in Great Britain ; — Report of a Committee appointed at the 

 Tenth Meeting of the Association for the Construction of a Constant Indicator for Steam-En- 

 gines, and for the determination of the Velocity of the Piston of the Self-acting Engine at 

 different periods of the Stroke; — J. S. Russell, Report of a Committee on the Form of Ships; 

 — Report of a Committee appointed " to consider of the rules by which the Nomenclature of 

 Zoology may be established on a uniform and permanent basis" ; — Report of a Committee on 

 the Vital Statistics of large Towns in Scotland ; — Provisional Reports, and Notices of Progress 

 in Special Researches entrusted to Committees and Individuals. 



Together with the Transactions of the Sections, Lord Francis Egerton's Address, and Re- 

 commendations of the Association and its Committees. 



PROCEEDINGS of the THIRTEENTH MEETING, at Cork, 



1843, 8s. 



Contents : — Robert Mallet, Esq., Third Report upon the Action of Air and Water, 

 whether fresh or salt, clear or foul, and of various Temperatures, upon Cast Iron, Wrought 

 Iron, and Steel ; — Report of the Committee appointed to conduct the co-operation of the 

 British Association in the System of Simultaneous Magnetical and Meteorological Observa- 

 tions; — Sir J. F. W. Herschel, Bart., Report of the Committee appointed for the Reduction 

 of Meteorological Observations ; — Report of the Committee appointed for Experiments on 

 Steam-engines ; — Report of the Committee appointed to continue their Experiments on the 

 Vitality of Seeds; — J. S. Russell, Esq., Report of a Series of Observations on the Tides of the 

 Frith of Forth and the East Coast of Scotland ; — J. S. Russell, Esq., Notice of a Report of the 

 Committee on the Form of Ships ; — J. Blake, Esq., Report on the Physiological Action of Me- 

 dicines ; — Report of the Committee appointed to print and circulate a Report on Zoological 

 Nomenclature; — Report of the Committee appointed in 1842, for registering the Shocks of 

 Earthquakes, and making such Meteorological Observations as may appear to them desirable ; 

 — Report of the Committee for conducting Experiments with Captive Balloons ; — Professor 

 Wheatstone, Appendi,x to the Report ; — Report of the Committee for the Translation and 

 Publication of Foreign Scientific Memoirs ; — C. W. Peach, on the Habits of the Marine Tes- 

 tacea ; — Edward Forbes, Esq., Report on the MoUusca and Radiata of the ^Egean Sea, and 

 on their distribution, considered as bearing on Geology ; — M. Agassiz, Synoptical Table of 

 British Fossil Fishes, arranged in the order of the Geological Formations ; — Richard Owen, 

 Esq., Report on the British Fossil Mammalia, Part IF. ; — E. W. Binney, Report on the Ex- 

 cavation made at the junction of the Lower New Red Sandstone with the Coal Measures at 

 CoUyhurst, neai- Manchester ; — W. Thompson, Esq., Report on the Fauna of Ireland : Div. 

 Invertehrata ; — Provisional Reports»,and Notices of Progress in Special Researches entrusted 

 to Committees and Individuals. * 



Together with the Transactions of the Sections, Earl of Rosse's Address, and Recommen- 

 dations of the Association and its Comm, 



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LITHOGRAPHED SIGNATURES f;^-<^'4*^M«^HRS who met at Cambridge in 1833, 

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