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PRO(,lKi:UIN'(iS 01- Tin; TIllKTKEXTII .M1<:KTIN(!. at Corlc 

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COXTKXTS:— Robert ^rallet. Third IJeporl iipoii tho Action of Air and Water 

 whetlior I'resli or sail, clear or foul, and at N'arioiis T( iiiiieraturcs, niioi, Cjisi j,.,,ii' 

 AVrouuht iron, and Sictd: lleport of the Commilteo app(.inted to condiu-t the (J,..' 

 operation of tiie I'.ritisli Associal ion in tlie System of Siiiudlaneoiis Ma-'uclical and 

 Metoondo-ical Ob-ervations ; Sir J. F. \V. Her.sdiel, Hart.. Keport of the Comniil tec 

 appointed for the Hcdiicl ion of Meteorolonical (tb>(.r\at ions ;— Keport of the Com- 

 mittee apjiointed for Kxperiments on Steam- Kn^ines: Kejiort of the ('(.mmilter; ap- 

 pointed to continue their Kxperiments on tlie Vit;dity of Seeds; ,1. S. Kusxlj. ];( ik rL 

 of a Series of Observations on the Tidesof the Frith of Forth and tlie Fast (least of 

 Scotland; J. S. Russell, Notice of a Kejiort of the Comniittee on the Form of Sinps ; 

 —J. I'dake. Report on tlie I'liysiolo-ical Action of Medicines :— Keport of the Com.' 

 juittee on Zooloi^ical Nomenclature ; Keport of the Committee for Ke.uisti'riuLr llio 

 Shocks of Fartli(|uakes, aiul makinjr such MeleoroloLiical ( »bserval ions as mavapicar 

 lo them desirable : Keixirt of the Comniiliee for conduct inLr Kxjerimeiits with Cap- 

 live I '.alloons : I'rof. U'heatsloiie, Appendix to the Kejiort ; -Ke]K)rt of the Com- 

 niittee for the Translat i(m and I'uljlication (d' Foreij;!) Scicntilic ."\Iemoirs: C. \V. 

 I'eadi, nn tlie Habits of the Marine Testacea ;— F. Forbes, Rei)ort on the Mollusca 

 and Radialaof the ^l^froan Sea, and on their distribution, considered as bearinir on 

 (Je(doj:y; L. A.u'assiz, Synoptical Table of Hrilish I-'osi^il Fishes, arran;j-ed in the 

 order of the (ienlo;;ical Formations; K. Owen, Keport (m the Kritish Fossil ;\iam- 

 nialia, I'art If.; F. W. liinney, llejiort on the excavation made at tlie junction of 

 the Lower New Red Sandstone witli the Coal Measures at Collyhiirsl : W. Thomp- 

 son, Report on the Fauna of Ireland: Div. Inn rfihratii : I'rovisionai i.'eiiorls. and 

 Notices of Progress in Special Kosearches entrusted to ('(iminitte(.'S and Iii(li\ idiials. 



TofTCther with the Transacti(ms of the Sections, the Far! of Kosse"s Address, and 

 Recommendations of the Association and its Committees. 



PROCEEDINGS OF the FOURTEENTH lilEETIXG, at York, 1844, 

 Pnhlished at £1. 



CoxTKXTS : -W. P.. Carpenter, on the Microscojiic Structure of Shells : J. Alder 

 and A. Hancock, Report on the I'ritisli Nudibranciiiatu Mollusca: R. Hunt, 

 Researches on the Influence of Li.tdit on the (ieiiuination of Seeds and the Crowth 

 of Plants; Kejmvt of a Committee a])pointe(l by tin; P.rilish Assoeialion in IS4(), 

 for revisinjr the Nomenclature of the Stars;- Lt. -Col. Saijine, on the Jlcteoroloiry 

 of Toronto in Canada; J. Plackwall, Rejiort on some recent researches into the 

 Structure, Functions, and Economy of the Anniciifci; madc^ in (Ireat I'ritain; Karl 

 of Rosse, fin the ( 'oust ruction of larire RellectiMir Telescojies;— Re\-. AV. Y. Harcourt, 

 Report on a Gas-furnace for Kxperiments on Vitrifaction and other Ajiiilicatioiis of 

 Hiirh Heat in the Laboratory ;— Report of the Committee for Jie,t;isterinLC I'^arth- 

 quake Shocks in Scotland; — Report of a Committee for Kxperiments on Steam- 

 Enjjines ; Keport of the Committee to investigate the Varieties of the Human 

 Piaco ; — Fourth Kciiort of a Committee appointed to continue their Exiieriiiieiits on 

 the Vitality of Seeds ; — W. Fairbairn, on the Consumjilion of Fuel and the rreveii- 

 tion of Snuike ; — F. Ronalds, Piejxirt concerning the Oliservatory of the Ihitish 

 Association at Kew; Sixth Rejiort of the Committee apjiointed to conduct tin; 

 Co-operation of the I'.ritisli Associati(Ui in the System of Simultaneous Magnetical 

 and Meteondogical Observations ;— Prof, i'orchhammer on the inllueiice of Fucoidal 

 Plants upon the Formations of the Karth, on 3Ietamorphism in general, and par- 

 ticularly the Metamoiiihosis of tlu- Scandinavian Alum Slate; — 11. F.Strickland, 

 Report on the Recent Progress and I'rcsent State of Ornithology; T. Oldham, 

 Keport of Committee ap]iointed to conduct observations on Subterranean Tempera- 

 ture in Ireland ;- Prof . Owen, Report on the PIxtinct .Mammals of .\nstralia, v.ith 

 de.scriptions of certain Fossils indicative of tlu; former existence in that continent 

 of large I\Iarsupial Representatives of the Order Pacliydermata ;— W. S. Hanis, 

 Report on the working of Wliewell and Osier's Anemometers at Plynioutb, for the 

 years 1841, 1842, 184:5;— W. R. Rirt, Report on Almo.sphcric Waves; L. Agrissiz, 

 Kapiwrt sur les I'oissons Fossiles de FArgile de Londrcs, with translation ;- J. S, 



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