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rd, June 



— T. Dobson, on the Explosions in British Coal- Jlincsdurinj,^ lie year ISot);— T. Old- 

 ham, Continuation of Report on Steam Navig-ation at Hull ; -Prof. G. Dickie, Brief 

 Summary of a Report on the Flora of the Nortli of Ireland; Prof. Owen, on the 

 Psychical and Physical Cliaracters of the Mincopies, or Natives of the Andaman 

 Islands, and on the Relations thereby indicated to other Races of Mankind ;— Colonel 

 Sykes, Report of the Balloon Committee; :\Iajor-Ceneral Sabine, Report on the Re- 

 petition of tlie Magnetic Survey of Enj,dand ;— Interim Report of the Committee for 

 Dredging; on the North and East Coasts of Scotland;— W. Fairbairn, on the Resist- 

 ance of Iron Plates to Statical Pressure and the Force of Imjjact by Projectiles at 

 High Velocities ;— \V. Fairbairn. Continuation of Report to determine the etl'ect of 

 Vibratory Action and long-continued Changes of Load upon ^\'roughl-Iron Girders ; 

 —Report of the Committee on the Law of Patents;— Prof. H. J. S. Smith, Reiwrt on 

 the Theory of Numbers, Part III. 



Together with the Transactions of tlie Sections, Mr. Fairbairn 's Address, and Re- 

 commendations of the Association and its Committees. 



Meteors, 

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PEOCEEDINGS of tiii: THIRTY-SECOND MEETING at Cam- 

 bridge, October 1H62, Fublish'd at £\. 



Contents : — James Glaisher, Report on Observations of Luminous Meteors, 1 8()l- 

 62 ;— G. B. Airy, on the Strains in the Interior of Beams ; -Archibald Smith and F, 

 J. Evans, Report on the three Reports of the Liverpool Compass Committee ; — Report 

 on Tidal Observations on the Humber;— T. Aston, on Rilled Guns and Projectiles 

 adapted for Attacking Armour-plate Defences ;— Extracts, relating to the Observa- 

 tory at Kew, from a Report presented to the Portuguese Government, by Dr. J. A. 

 de Souza ; — H. T. Mennell, Report on the Dredging of the Northumberland Coast 

 and Dogger Bank ; — Dr. Cuthbert Collingwood, Report upon the best means of ad- 

 vancing Science through the agency of the Mercantile Marine ;— Slessrs. Williamson, 

 Wheatstone, Thomson, Miller, Matthlessen, and Jenkin, Provisional Report on Stan- 

 dards of Electrical Resistance; — Preliminary Report of the Committee for investiga- 

 ting the Chemical and Mineralogical Composition of the Granites of Donegal ; Prof. 

 H. Hennessy, on the Vertical Movements of the Atmosphere considered in connec- 

 tion with Storms and Changes of Weather ; — Report of Committee on the apjilication 

 of Gauss's General Theory of Terrestrial Magnetism to the Magnetic Variations; — 

 Fleeming Jenkin, on Thermo-electric Currents in Circuits of one .Metal;— W. Fair- 

 bairn, on the Mechanical Properties of Iron Projeciiles at High Velocities; A. Cay- 

 ley, Report on the Progress of the Solutionof certain Special Problems of Dynamics; 

 — Prof. G. G. Stokes, Report on Double Refraction ; — Fourth Report of tlie Committee 

 on Stcam.ship Perfoimance ; — G. J. Symons, on the Fall of Rain in the British Isles 

 in 1860 and 1861 ;— J. Ball, on Thermometric Observations in the Alps ;— J. G. 

 Jeffreys, Report of the Committee for Dredging on the North and East Coasts of 

 Scotland ; — Report of the Committee on Technical and Scientific ?]vidence in Courts 

 of Law ;— James Glaisher, Account of Eight Balloon Ascents in 1802 ; — Prof. H. J. S. 

 Smith. Report on the Theory of Numbers, Part IV. 



Together with the Transactions of the Sections, the Rev. Prof. R. Willis's Address, 

 and Recommendations of the Association and its Committees. 



PROCEEDINGS of the THIRTY-THIRD :N[EETING, at New- 

 castle-upon-Tyne, August and September 18C3, Published at £1 5.s. 



CONTKXTB :— Report of the Committee on the Application of Gun-cotton to War- 

 like Purposes ;— A. Matthiessen, Report on the Chemical Nature of Alloys ;— Report 

 of the Committee on the Chemical and Mineralogical Constitution of the Granites of 

 Donegal, and on the Rocks associated withtliem ;— J. G. Jeffreys, Report of the Com- 

 mittee appointed for exphiring the Coasts of Shetland by means of the Dredge ;-- 

 G. D. Gibb, Rejwrt on the Physiological Effects of the Bromide of Ammonium ;— C. K. 

 Aken, on the Transmutation of Spectral Ravs, Part L ;— Dr. Robinson, Report of the 

 Committee on Fog Signals ;— Report of tlie Committee on Standards of Electrical 

 Resistance J— E. Smith, Abstract of Report by the Indian Government on the Foods 



