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 Fifteenth Report of a Committee, consisting of Professor Daubeny, 

 Professor Henslow, and Professor Lindley, appointed to continue 

 their Experiments on the Growth and Vitality of Seeds 78 



Report on Observations of Luminous Meteors, 1854—55. By the Rev. 

 Baden Powell, M.A., F.R.S. &c., Savilian Professor of Geometry 

 in the University of Oxford 79 



Provisional Report of the Committee, consisting of Mr. W. Fairbairn, 

 His Grace the Duke of Argyll, Captain Sir Edward Belcher, 

 the Rev. Dr. Robinson, the Rev. Dr. Scoresby, Mr. Joseph Whit- 

 worth, Mr. J. Beaumont Neilson, Mr. James Nasmyth, and 

 Mr. W. J. Macquorn Rankine; appointed to institute an Inquiry 

 into the best means of ascertaining those properties of metals and 

 effects of various modes of treating them which are of importance to 

 the durability and efficiency of Artillery ; and empowered, should 

 they think it advisable, to communicate, in the name of the Associa- 

 tion, with Her Majesty's Government, and to request its assistance. . 100 



On Typical Objects in Natural History.... 108 



An Account of the Self-Registering Anemometer and Rain-Gauge 

 erected at the Liverpool Observatory in the Autumn of 1851, with a 

 Summary of the Records for the years 1852, 1853, 1854, and 1855. 

 By A. Follett Osler, F.R.S 127 



Provisional Reports 1 ^S 



