Association in the System of Simultaneous Magnetical and Meteorological Observations ;— 
J. Richardson, M.D., Report on the present State of the Ichthyology of New Zealand ;— 
W. S. Harris, Report on the Progress of Meteorological Observations at Plymouth ;—Second 
Report of a Committee appointed to make Experiments on the Growth and Vitality of Seeds; 
—C. Vignoles, 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 Prof. Liebig’s Report on “Organic Chemistry applied to Physiology and Pathology ;”— 
R. Owen, Report on the British Fossil Mammalia, Part I. ;-R. Hunt, Researchés on the 
Influence of Light on the Germination of Seeds and the Growth of Plants ;—L. Agassiz, Report 
on the Fossil Fishes of the Devonian System or Old Red Sandstone ;--W. Fairbairn, Ap- 
pendix.to a Report on the Strength and other Properties of Cast Iron obtained from the Hot 
and Cold Blast ;—D. Milne, Report of the Committee for registering Shocks of Earthquakes 
in Great Britain ;—Report of a Committee on the Construction of a Constant Indicator for Steam- 
Engines, 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 or tHe THIRTEENTH MEETING, at Cork, 
1843, Published at 12s. 
ConTEentTs:—Robert Mallet, 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 As- 
sociation in the System of Simultaneous Magnetical and Meteorological Observations ;—Sir 
J. Ε΄ W. Herschel, Bart., Report of the Committee appointed for the Reduction of Meteoro- 
logical 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, Report of a Series of Observations on the Tides of the Frith of 
Forth and the East Coast of Scotland ;—J. 5. Russell, Notice of a Report of the Committee 
on the Form of Ships ;—J. Blake, Report on the Physiological Action of Medicines ;—Report 
of the Committee on Zoological Nomenclature ;—Report of the Committee 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 ; 
—Prof. Wheatstone, Appendix 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 
Testacea ;—E. Forbes, Report on the Mollusca and Radiata of the Zgean Sea, and on their 
distribu:ion, considered as bearing on Geology ;—L. Agassiz, Synoptical Table of British 
Fossil Fishes, arranged in the order of the Geological Formations ;—R. Owen, Report on the 
British Fossil Mammalia, Part II.;—E. W. Binney, Report on the excavation made at the 
junction of the Lower New Red Sandstone with the Coal Measures at Collyhurst ;—W. 
Thompson, Report on the Fauna of Ireland: Div. Invertebrata ;—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 Committees. 
ὶ PROCEEDINGS oF THE FOURTEENTH MEETING, at York, 1844, 
Published at £1. 
_ ConTENT's :—W. B. Carpenter, on the Microscopic Structure of Shells ;——-J. Alder and A. 
Hancock, Report on the British Nudibranchiate Mollusca ;—R. Hunt, Researches on the 
Influence of Light on the Germination of Seeds and the Growth of Plants ;——Report of a 
Committee appointed by the British Association in 1840, for revising the Nomenclature of the 
Stars ;—Lt.-Col. Sabine, on the Meteorology of Toronto in Canada ;—J. Blackwall, Report 
on some recent researches into the Structure, Functions and CEconomy of the Araneidea 
made in Great Britain;—Earl of Rosse, on the Construction of large Reflecting Telescopes; 
—Rev. W. V. Harcourt, Report on ἃ Gas Furnace for Experiments on Vitrifaction and other 
Applications of High Heat in the Laboratory;—Report of the Committee for Registering 
Earthquake Shocks in Scotland ;—Report of a Committee for Experiments on Steam-Engines ; 
—Report of the Committee to investigate the Varieties of the Human Race;—Fourth Report 
of a Committee appointed to continue their Experiments on the Vitality of Seeds;=-W. Fair- 
bairn, on the Consumption of Fuel and the prevention of Smoke ;—F. Ronalds, Report con- 
cerning the Observatory of the British Association at Kew ;—Sixth Report of the Committee 
appointed to conduct the Co-operation of the British Association in the System of Simulta- 
neous Magnetical and Meteorological Observations ;—Prof. Forchhammer ‘on the influence 
