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 crmination 

 ['axation on 

 Tyndall ; 

 Liunar Com- 

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 ;— Experi- 

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 the Rate of 

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 Report on 

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 of Mineral 

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971 



PROCEEDINGS of the FORTIETH MEETING, at Liverpool. 

 September 1870, FiihUshcd at 18.s-. 



Contents:- -Report on Steam-boiler Explosions;— Report of tlie Committee on 

 the Hii'mat it e Iron-ores of (Jrcat Hritain and Ireland ;— Report on the Sedimentary 

 Deposits of tlie River Onny; Report on the Chemical Nature of Cast Iron; -Re- 

 port on the practicability of establishing a 'Close Time' for tlie protection of 

 Indigenous Animals ; - Report on Standards of Electrical Resistance ; - Sixtli Report 

 on Kent's Cavern; -Third Report on Underground Temiieralure ;— Second Report of 

 the Committee ap))ointed to get cut and prepared Seclionsof Mountain-Limestone 

 Corals; Second Report on the Stal)ility, rrojudsion, and Seagoing Qualities of 

 Ships;— Reijort on Earthquakes in Scotland;- Report on the Treatment and Utili- 

 zation of Sewage ;— Report on Observat ions of Luminous Meteors, 18()!»-7(»; Report 

 on Recent Progress in Elliptic and Hyperelliptic Functions;— Report on Tidal Ob- 

 servations;— On a new Steam-power Meter ;— Report on the Action of the Methyl 

 and Allied Series ;— Report of the Rainfall Committee ;- Report on the Heat 

 generated in the Rlood in the Process of Arterialization;— Report on the best 

 means of providing for Uniformity of Weiglits and IMeasures. 



Togetlier with the Transactions of tlie Sections, Prof. Huxley's Address, and Re- 

 commendations of tlie Association and its Committees. 



PROCEEDINGS of the FORTY-FIKST MEETING, atEdiuburgb, 

 August 1871, Fublished at IGs. 



Contents: — Seventh Report on Kent's Cavern; — Fourth Report on Under- 

 ground Temperature ; -Re))ort on Observations of Luminous Meteors, 1870-71; — 

 Fiftli Report on the Structure and Chissitication of tlie Fossil Crustacea ;- Report 

 of the Committee appointed for the purpose of urging on Her Majesty's Government 

 the expediency of arranging and tabulating tlie results of tlie approacliing Census 

 in the three several parts of the United Kingdom in sucli a manner as to admit of 

 ready and effective comparison ; — Report of the Committee ajijioiiited for tlie purpose 

 of Superintending the Publication of Abstracts of Chemical Pajiers; — Rcjiort of the 

 Committee for discussing Observations of Lunar Objects suspected of change; — 

 Second Provisional Report on the Tiiernial Conductivity of Metals ; -Report on 

 the Rainfall of the P.ritish Isles;— Third Rejiort on tlu! liritish Fossil Corals;— 

 Report on the Heat generated in the Hlood during tiie Process of Arterialization : 

 — Report of the Committee appointed to consider tlie subject of Physiological 

 Kxperimentat ion ; -Report on the Physiological Action of Organic Chemical Com- 

 pounds ; — Report of the Committee appointed to get cut and i)repared Sections of 

 Mountain-Limestone Corals; — Second Report on Steam- Roller Explosions ; Re- 

 port on the Treatment and Utilization of Sewage; — Report on promoting the Foun- 

 dation of Zoological Stations in different parts of the World ; -Preliminary Report 

 on the Thermal Equivalents of the Oxides of Clil<n-ine ;- Report on tlie practica- 

 bility of establishing a 'Close Time' for tlie protection of Indigenous Animals ; 

 —Report on Earthquakes in Sci>tland ; -Report on the liest means of jiroviding for 

 a Uniformity of Weiglits and Measures ; — Report on Tidal Observations. 



Together with the Transactions of the Sections, Sir William Tliomson's Address,, 

 and Recommendations of the Association and its Committees, 



PROCEEDINGS of the FORTY-SECOND MEETING, at Brigbton, 

 August 1872, Published at £1 48. 



Contents :— Report on the (Jaussian Constants for tlie Year 1829 ;— Second Sup- 

 plementary Report on the Extinct Birds of the Mascareiie Islands ;— Report of the 

 t'ommittee for Superintending the Monthly Reports of the Progress of Chemistry ;- 

 Report of tlie Committee on the best means of providing for a Uniformity of 

 Weights and Measures ; -Eighth Report on Kent's Cavern ; -Report on promot ing the 

 Foundat'on of Zoological Stations in different parts of the World ;- Fourth Report 



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