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Remarks on the Climate of Southampton, founded on Barometrical, 

 Thermometrical and Hygrometrical Tables, deduced from observa- 

 tions taken three times daily during the years 1848, 1849 and 1850. 

 By John Drew, F.R.A.S., Ph.D. University of Bale 54 



On the Air and Water of Towns. Action of Porous Strata, Water and 

 Organic Matter. By Dr. Robert Angus Smith, Manchester 66 



Report of the Committee appointed by the British Association to con- 

 sider the probable Effects in an Qiconomical and Physical Point of 

 View of the Destruction of Tropical Forests. By Dr. Hugh Cleg- 

 horn, Madras Medical Establishment; Professor John Forbes 

 RoYLE, King's College, London ; Captain R. Baird Smith, Bengal 

 Engineers; Captain R. Strachey, Bengal Engineers 78 



On the Reproduction and supposed Existence of Sexual Organs in the 

 Higher Cryptogamous Plants. By Arthur Henfrey, F.L.S 102 



On the Nomenclature of Organic Compounds. By Charles G. B. 

 Daubeny, M.D., F.R.S.. Professor of Chemistry at Oxford 124 



On two unsolved Problems in Indo-German Philology. By the Rev. 

 J.W.Donaldson, D.D 138 



Report on the British Annelida. By Thomas Williams, M.D. Lend. 

 University, Extra Licentiate of the Royal College of Physicians, and 

 formerly Demonstrator on Structural Anatomy at Guy's Hospital ... 159 



Second Report on the Facts of Earthquake Phaenomena. By Robert 

 Mallet, C.E., M.R.I.A 272 



Letter from Professor Henry, Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution 

 at Washington, to Colonel Sabine, General Secretary of the British 

 Association, on the System of Meteorological Observations proposed 

 to be established in the United States 320 



Report on the Kew Magnetographs. By Colonel Sabine 325 



Report to Francis Ronalds, Esq., on the Performance of his three 

 Magnetographs during the Experimental Trial at the Kew Observa- 

 tory, April 1 till October 1, 1851. By John Welsh, Esq 328 



Report concerning the Observatory of the British Association at Kew, 

 from September 12, 1850 to July 31, 1851. By Francis Ronalds, 

 Esq., F.R.S., Honorary Superintendent 335 



Ordnance Survey of Scotland 370 



Provisional Report 372 



