of Fucoidal Plants upon the Formations of the Earth, on Metamorphism in general, and par- 
ticularly the Metamorphosis of the Scandinavian Alum Slate ;~-H. E. Strickland, Report on 
thé recent Progress and present State of Ornithology ;—T. Oldham, Report of Committee 
appointed to conduct Observations on Subterranean Temperature in Ireland ;—Prof. Owen, 
Report on the Extinct Mammals of Australia, with descriptions of certain Fossils indicative 
of the former existence in that Continent of large Marsupial Representatives of the Order 
Pachydermata ;—W. 5. Harris; Report on the working of Whewell and Qsler’s Anemometers 
at Plymouth, for the years 1841, 1842, 1843;—W. R. Birt, Report on Atmospheric Waves ; 
—L. Agassiz, Report sur les Poissons Fossiles de l’Argile de Londres, with translation ;—J. 
S. Russell, Report on Waves ;—Provisional Reports, and Notices of Progress in Special Re- 
searches entrusted to Committees and Individuals. 
Together with the Transactions of the Sections, Dean of Ely’s Address, and Recommenda- 
tions of the Association and its Committees. 
PROCEEDINGS or τὴ FIFTEENTH MEETING, at Cambridge, 
1845, Published at 195. 
CoNTENTS :—Seventh Report of a Committee appointed to conduct the Co-operation of the 
British Association in the System of Simultaneous Magnetical and Meteorological Observa- 
tions ;— Lt.-Col. Sabine, on some points in the Meteorology of Bombay ;—J. Blake, Report 
on the Physiological Action of Medicines ;—Dr. Von Boguslawski, on the Comet of 1843; 
—R. Hunt, Report on the Actinograph ;—Preft Schénbein, on Ozone ;—Prof. Erman, on 
the Influence of Friction upon Thermo-Electricity ;—Baron Senftenberg, on the Self- 
Registering Meteorological Instruments employed in-the Observatory at Senftenberg ;— 
W. R. Birt, Second Report on Atmospheric Waves;—G. R. Porter, on the Progress and Pre- 
sent Extent of Savings’ Banks in the United Kingdom;—Prof. Bunsen and Dr. Playfair, 
Report on the Gases evolved from Iron Furnaces, with reference to the Theory of Smelting 
of Iron ;—Dr. Richardson, Report on the Ichthyology of the Seas of China and Japan ;— 
Report of the Committee on the Registration of Periodical Phenomena of Animals and Vege- 
tables ;—-Fifth Report of the Committee on the Vitality of Seeds ;—Appendix, &c. 
Together with the Transactions of the Sections, Sir J, F. W. Herschel’s Address, and Re- 
commendations of thé Association and its Committees. 
PROCEEDINGS or rue SIXTEENTH MEETING, at Southampton, 
1846, Published at 15s. 
_ConTENTs :—G. G. Stokes, Report on Recent Researches in Hydrodynamics ;~-Sixth 
Report of the Committee on the Vitality of Seeds ;—Dr. Schunck, ‘on the Colouring Matters of 
Madder ;—J. Blake, on the’ Physiological Action of Medicines ;—R. Hunt, Report on the Ac- 
tinograph ;—R. Hunt, Notices on the Influence of Light on the Growth of Plants;—R. L. 
Ellis, on the Recent Progress of Analysis ;—Prof. Forchhammer, of Comparative Analytical 
Researches on Sea Water ;—A. Erman, on the Calculation of the Gaussian Constants for - 
1829 ;—G. R. Porter, on thé Progress, present Amount, and probable future Condition of the 
Iron Manufacture in Great Britain;—W. R. Birt, Third Report on Atmospheric Waves ;— 
Prof. Owen, Report on the Archetype and Homologies of the Vertebrate Skeleton ;— 
J. Phillips, on Anemometry ;—J. Percy, M:D., Report on the Crystalline Slags ;—Addenda to 
Mr. Birt’s Report on Atmospheric Waves. 
Together with the Transactions of the Sections, Sir R. I. Murchison’s Address, and Re- 
commendations of the Association and its Committees. 
PROCEEDINGS or toe SEVENTEENTH MEETING, at Oxford, 
1847, Published at 18s. 
ConTeNrTs :—Prof. Langberg, on the Specific Gravity of Salphuric Acid at different de- 
grees of dilution, and on the relation which exists between the Development of Heat and ‘the 
coincident contraction of Volume in Sulphuric Acid when mixed with Water;—R. Hunt, 
Researches on the Influence of the Solar Rays on the Growth of Plants ;—R. Mallet, on 
the Facts of Earthquake Phenomena ;—Prof. Nilsson, on the Primitive Inhabitants of Scan- 
dinavia ;—-W. Hopkins, Report on the Geological Theories of Elevation and Earthquakes; 
—Dr. W. B. Carpenter, Report on the Microscopic Structure of Shells ;—Rev. W. Whewell and 
Sir James C. Ross, Report upon the Recommendation of an Expedition for the purpose of 
completing our knowledge of the Tides ;—Dr. Schunck, on Colouring Matters ;—Seventh Re- 
port of the Committee on the Vitality of Seeds ;—J. Glynn, on the Turbine or Horizental 
Water-Wheel of France and Germany ;—Dr. R. G. Latham, on the present state and recent 
progress of Ethnographical Philology ;—Dr. J. C. Prichard, on the various methods of Research 
which contribute to the Advancement of Ethnology, and of the relations of that Science to 
other branches of Knowledge ;—Dr. C. C. J. Bunsen, on the results of the recent Egyptian 
researches in reference to Asiatic and African Ethnology, and the Classification of Languages ; 
