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Patent Laws : Report of Committee on tlie Patent Laws ; — J, Park Harrison, Lnnar 

 Influence on the Temjjeralure of the Air : — r)alfour Stewart, an Account of tlio Con- 

 struction ol the Self-rt^cording Magnetographs at present in operation at tlie ^ „w 

 Observatory of tlie British Association ;— Professor H. J. Steplien Smith, Report on 

 the Theory of Numbers, Part I.; — Report of the Committee on Steamship Performance ; 

 — Report of the Prooeeilings of the Balloon Committee of the British Association 

 appointed at the Meeting at Leeds; — Prof. William K. Sullivan, Preliminary 

 Report on the Solubility of Salts at Temperatures above 100° Cent., and on the 

 Mutual Action of Salts in Solution. 



Together with the Transactions of the Sections, Prince Albert's Address, and 

 Recommendations of the Association and its Committees, 



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PROCEEDINGS of the THIRTIETH IklEETING, at Oxford, June 

 and Tuly 1860, PuhUshed at 15s. 



CONTKXTs: — James Glaislier, Report on Observations of Luminous Meteors, 

 185i>-r)0; — J. R. Kiiiahan, Report of Dublin Bay Dredging Committee; — ^Rev, J. 

 Anderson, Report on the Excavations in Dura Den; — Prof. Buckman, Report on 

 the Experimental Plots in the liotanical Garden of tlie Roj-al Agricultural College. 

 Cirencester ; — -Rev. R. Walker, Report of the Ccmimittee on Balloon Ascents ; — Prof. 

 W. Thomson, Report of Committee appointed to prepare a Self-recording Atmo- 

 spheric Elect mmeter for Kew, and Portable Apparatus for ob.serving Atmospheric 

 Electricitj' ; — William Fairbairn, Experiments to determine the p]ttect of Vibratory 

 Action and long-continued Changes of Load upon Wrought-iron Girders ; — R. P. 

 Greg, Catalogue of Jleteoritcs and Fireballs, fromA.n. 2 to a.d. IHOO;— Prof. H. J. S. 

 Smith, Report on the Theory of Numbers, Part II.; — Vice-Admiral Moorsom, on the 

 Performance of Steam-vessels, the Functions of the Screw, and the Relations of its 

 Diameter and Pitch to the Form of tlie Vessel ;— Rev. W. V. Harcourt, Report on tlie 

 Effects of long-continued Heat, illustrative of Geological Phenomena; — Second 

 Report of theCommitlee on Steamship Performance ;--lnterim Report on the Gauging 

 of Water by Triangular Notclies ;- List of the British Marine Invertebrate Fauna. 



Together with the Transactions of the Sections, Lord Wrottesley's Address, and 

 Recommendations of the Association and its Committees. 



PROCEEDINGS of the THIRTY-FIRST MEETING, at Manches- 

 ter, September 18G1, ruhlished at £1. 



CoNTKNTS : — James Glaislier, Rejiort on Observations of Luminous Meteors; — 

 Dr. E. Smith, Report on the Action of Prison Diet and Discipline on the Bodily 

 Functions of Prisoners, Part I. ;— Charles Atherton, on Freight as affected by Differ- 

 ences in the Dynamic Properties of Steamships; — Warren De La Rue, Report on the 

 Progress of Celestial Photography since the Aberdeen Meeting ; — B. Stewart, on the 

 Theory of Exchanges, and its recent extension ;Drs. E. Schunck, R. Angus Smith, 

 and H. E. Roscoe, on the Recent Progress and Present Condition of Manufacturing'- 

 Chemistry in the South Lancashire District ; — Dr. J. Hunt, on I*]thno-Climatology ; 

 or, the Acclimatization of JL^n ; Prof. J. Thomson, on Experiments on the Gauging;- 

 of Water by Triangular Notches;— Dr. A. Voelcker, Report on Field pjxperimoiiS 

 and Laboratory Researches on the Constituents of Manures essential to cultivated 

 Crops ; — Prof. H. Hennessy, Provisional Report on the Present State of our Knowledge 

 respecting the Transmissi(m of Sound-signals during Fogs at Sea;— Dr. P. L. Sclater 

 and F. von Hochstetter, Report on the Present State of our Knowledge of the Birds 

 of the Genus Aptm/x living in New Zealand ; — J. C. Jeffreys, Report of the Results 

 of Deep-sea Dredging in Zetland, with a Notice of several Species of Mollusca new 

 to Science or to the British Isles; — Prof. J. Phillips, Contributions to a Report on 

 the Physical Aspect of the Moon; — AV. R. Birt, Contriliufion to a Report on tlie Phy- 

 sical Aspect of the ISIoon; — Dr. Collingwood and Mr. liyerley. Preliminary Report 

 of the Dredging Committeeof the Mersey and Deo ;— Third Rciiort of the Committee 

 on Steamsliip Performance ; — J. (>. Jeffreys, Preliminary Report on the Best Mode of 

 preventing tlie Ravages of Ten do and other Animals in our Ships and Harbours; — 

 R. Mallet, Report on the FJxperiments made at Holyhead to ascertain the Transit- 

 Velocityof Waves,analogousto EartlKjuake Waves, thronghthe local Rock Formations ; 



