at ions of 

 icheraical 



and the 

 ! Marino 

 , and the 

 irt on the 

 , Coast ot 

 Beds and 

 iliation in 



; -Dr. T. 

 mta ; — W. 

 urcs ; — C. 



the Vital 

 lents con- 

 on; -Pro- 

 l Forms of 

 )rt on Pro- 

 Mallet, on 

 'heoretica! 

 it ion of it 



.dress, and 



?ING, at 



Dynamics ; 



jrowth ami 

 Navigation 

 of Measur- 

 Power, and 

 pie may hv 

 iT of Steam 

 cs in Corn- 

 'j8'l-f'5', + ' 



exjirimable 

 jrodnit des 

 the Marine 

 )f the Irish 

 i Extent to 

 ive Tj-pe ot 

 . S. Bower- 

 Hodges, on 

 c Survey of 

 )us Meteors, 

 sustain the 

 stry ;— John 

 Winterini,'- 

 4 ; — Charloi* 



Indetcrmi- 

 lescope and 

 nental Plots 



—William 

 ,n, Report of 

 low, on thf 

 Comparison 

 ce equal de- 

 [nfluence on 

 i into Liver- 



965 



pool from the year 1851 to 1 835 (inclusive) ;— Andrew Henderson, Rejxirt on the Sta- 

 tistics of Life-boats and Fishing-boats on the Coasts of the United Kingdom. 



Together with the Transactions of the Sections, the Rev. IF. Lloyd's Address, and 

 Recommendations of the Association and its Committees, 



PROCEEDINGS of the TWENTY-EIGHTH MEETING, ni Leeds, 

 September 1858, Fublished at 20s. 



Contents:— R. Mallet, Fourth Report upon the Facts and Theory of Karth(iuake 

 Phenomena ;— Rev. Prof. Powell, Report on Observations of Luminous Meteors, 1857- 

 1858; — R. H. Meade, on some Points in the Anatomy of the Arancideaor true Sjjiders, 

 ■especially on the internal stnict\iroof their Si)inning Organs ;-— W. Fairbairn, Ueiwrt 

 of the Committee on the Patent Laws ;— S. Eddy, on the Lead Mining Districts of 

 Yorkshire ; — W. Fairbairn, on the Collapse of Glass Globes and Cylinders ;— Dr. E. 

 Perceval Wright and Prof. J. Reay Greene, Report on the Marine Fauna of tiie Seuth 

 and West Coa.sts of Ireland ;— Prof J. Thomson, on E.Ki)erlments on the Measurement 

 ■of Water by Triangular Notclies in Weir Boards; — JIajor-General Sabine, iteport of 

 the Committee on the Magnetic Survey of (Jreat Britain; — Michael Connel and 

 William Keddie, Report on Animal, Vegetable, and ^Mineral Substances imported 

 from Foreign Countries into the Clyde (including the Ports of (Jlasgow, Greenock, 

 and Port Glasgow) in the years 185;5, 1854, 1855, 185(1, and 1857; — Report of the 

 Committee on Shipping Statistics; — Rev. H. Lloyd, D.I)., Notice of the instruments 

 employed in the Magnetic Survey of Ireland, with .sume of the Results; — Prof. J. R. 

 Kinahan, Report of Dublin Jredging Committe(>, apjiointed IS57-58; — Prof . .1. R. 

 Kinahan, Report on Crustacea of Dublin District ;— Andrew Henderson, on River 

 .Steamers, their Form, Construction, and Fittings, with reference to the; necessity for 

 Improving the present means of Shallow-Water Xavigiition on the Rivers of British 

 India ; — George C. Hyndman, Reportof the Belfiust Dredging Committee ; — Appendix 

 to Mr. Vignoles' Paper 'On the Adaptation of Suspension Bridgi^s to sustain tlie 

 passage of Railway Trains;' — Peport of the Joint Committee of the Royal Society 

 .and tlie British Association, for procuring a continuance of the Magnetic and 

 Meteorological Observatories; — R. Beckley, Uescriiition of a Self-recording Ane- 

 •mometer. 



Together with the Transactions of the Sections, I'rof. Owen's Addre.ss, and Re- 

 commendations of the Association and its Committees, 



PROCEEDINGS of the TWENTY-NINTH MEETING, at Aberdeen, 

 September 1859, Published at 15.s. 



Contents:— George C. Foster, Preliminary Report on the Recent Progress and 

 Present State of Organic Chemistry ;—i'rofessor Buckraan, Rejiort on the (irowth of 

 Plants in thetiardenof the Royal Agricultural College, Cirence.-<ler ; • Dr. A. VoelcVer. 

 Report on Field Experiments and Laboratory Rcsearclies on the (Jonstiluents of 

 Manures essential to Cultivated Crops ;— A. Thomson, of lianchory. Report on 

 the Aberdeen Industrial Feeding Schools ;— On the Upper Silurians of Lesmahagow, 

 Lanarkshire ;— Alphonse Gages, Report on the Results obtained by the .Mcchanico- 

 Chemical Examination of Rocks and Minerals ;— William Fairbairn, Experiments t.. 

 determine the Etticiencyof Continuous and Self-acting lirakes for Railway Trains ;- 

 Professor J. R. Kinahan, Reportof Dublin Bay Dredging Comniitlee fur I8.j8-.5!t;— 

 Rev. Baden Powell, Report on Observaticms of Luiniudiis Meteors lor I8J8-5!»;— 

 Professor Owen, Report on a Series of Skulls of various Triliesof Mankiixl iuliabiting 

 Nepal, collected, and presented to the British Jluseuin, liy I'.ryan H. Hodgson, E.sq., 

 late Resident in Nepal,.'«c.&c.;— Messrs. Jhuskelyne, lladow, Hardwicli, and Llewelyn. 

 Report on the Present State of our Knowledge regarding the I'hotographic Image; - 

 G. C. Hyndman, Report of the Belfast Dredging (\)mmillee for I85;t ;— James 

 Oldham, Continuation of Report of the Progress of Steam Navigation at D"'l;— 

 (Jharles Atherton, Mercantile St epm Transport Eeonomy as affected by the Con- 

 sumption of Coals ;- Warren De La Rue, Report on the jiresent state of Celestial 

 Photography in England;- Professor Owen, on the Orders of Fossil and Recent 

 Reptilia, and their Distribution in Time ;— lialfour Stewart, on some Results ot the 

 Magnetic Survey of Scotland in the years 18.-.7 and 1858, undertaken, at the request 

 yf the British A.ssociation, by the late John WeLsli, Esq., F.R.S.;-W. tairbwm, lUu 



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