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PROCEEDINGS ov the THIRTY. EIGHTH MEETING, at Nor- 

 wich, August 1868, rnhlished at £1 5s. 



CONTKNTS: — Report of the Lunar Committee — Fourtli Report on Kent's Cavern, 

 Devonshire; — On I'liddling Iron ;— Fourtli Report on tlie Structure and ('lassilica- 

 tionoi' tlio Fossil Crustacea; —Report on British Fossil Corals; — Report on Spectro- 

 scopic Invest ifrat ions of Animal Substances; — Report of Steamship Performance 

 Committee; — Spectrum Analysis of the Heavenly Rodies ; -On Stellar Spectro- 

 metry ;--Report on the rh}'si(>loHical Action of the diethyl and allied Compounds ; — 

 Report on the Action of Mercury on the Riliary Secretion ; - Last Report on Dredg- 

 ing among the Shetland Isles ; Rejiorts on tlie Crustacea, kc, and on the Annelida 

 and Foraminifcra from the Shetland Drcdjiings; — Report on the Chemical Nature of 

 Ca.st Iron, Part I.; — Interim Report on tlie Safety of Jlerciiiint Shij)s and their 

 Passengers; — Report on Observations of Lui; iious Jleteors ; — Preliminary Report 

 on Mineral Veins containing Organic Remains; — Report on the Desirability oi 

 Explorations between India and China ; —Report of Rainfall Committee; — Re- 

 port on Synthetical Researclieson Organic Acids ; —Report on Uniformity of Weights 

 and Measures; — Report of the Committee on Tidal Observations ;— Report of the 

 Committee on Underground Temperature; — Changes of the Moon's Surface ;— Re- 

 port on Polyatomic Cyanides. 



Together wiih the Transact ions of tlie Sections, Dr. Hooker's Address, and Recom- 

 mendations of the Association and its Committees, 



PR I ' 



PROCEEDINGS of the THIRTY-NINTH MEETING, at Exeter, 

 August 18(39, Puhlished at £1 2s. 



Contents: — Report on tlie Plant -beds of North Greenland ;— Report on the 

 existing knowledge on the Stability, Projmlsion, and Seagoing qualities of Ships ; 

 -Report on Steam-boiler Explosions; — Preliminary Report on the Determination 

 of tlie Gases existing in Solution in Well-waters; The Pressure of Taxation on 

 Real Property ;— On tlie Chemical Reactions of Light discovered by Prof. Tyndall;- 

 On B^ossils obtained at Kiltorkan Quarry, co. Kilkenny ; - Report of the Lunar Com- 

 mittee ; — Report on the Chemical Nature of Cast Iron ; — Report on the Marine Fauna 

 and Flora of the South Coast of Devon and Cornwall ; -Report on the Practicability 

 of establishing a 'Close Time ' for the Protection of Indigenous Animals; — Experi- 

 mental Researches on the Mechanical Properties of Steel ; —Second Report on 

 Rritish Fossil Corals; — Report of the Committee appointed to get cut and prepareil 

 Sections of Mountain-Limestone Corals for Pliotographing ; — Report on the Rate of 

 Increase of Underground Temperature ;— Fifth Report on Kent's Cavern, Devon- 

 .shire ; — Report on the Connexion between Chemical Constitution and Physiological 

 Action; — On Emission, Absorption, and Reflection of Obscure Heat ; -Report on 

 Observations of Luminous Meteors ; —Report on Uniformity of Weights and Measures ; 

 — Report on the Treatment and Utilization of Sewage ; — SujDplement to Second 

 Report of the Steamship-Performance Committee ;- Report on Recent Progress in 

 Elliptic and Hyperelliptic Functions;— Report on Mineral Veins in Carboniferous 

 Limestone and their Organic Contents ; — Notes on the Foraminifera of Mineral 

 Veins and the Adjacent Strata ; — Report of the Rainfall Committee ; — Interim Re- 

 port on the Laws of the Flow and Action of Water containing Solid Matter in 

 Suspension ; — Interim Report on Agricultural Machinery ; — Report on the Physio- 

 logical Action of Methyl and Allied Series ; — On the Inthience of Form considered 

 in Relation to the Strength of Railway-axles and other portions of Machinery sub- 

 jected to Rapid Alterations of Strain; —On the Penetration of Armour-plates with 

 Long Shells of Large Capacity fired obliquely ; — Report on Standards of Electrical 

 Resistance. 



Together with the Transactions of the Sections, Prof. Stokes's Address, and Re- 

 commendations of the Association and its Committees. 



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