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on the Fauna of Soiilli Devon ; - rrcliminary lleport^ of tlio Committee appointed to 

 Const met. and I'rint Catalogues of Sj)ectral Itays arranj^ed upon a Scale of Wave- 

 numbers; — Third Report on .Sleam-Koiler Explosions; Ileport on ()i)servatinns of 

 Luminous Meteors, l«71-72 ;-Kxi)eriments on the Surface-friction experienced liy 

 a riane movinf< through Water; Iteport of the Committee on the Antafjonism hc- 

 tween tlu! Action of Active Substances; Fifth Ileport on Underground T('m])era- 

 ture ;— I'reliminary Report of the Committee on Hiemens's Electrical- Resistance 

 Pyrometer; — Fourth Report on the Treatment and Utilization of Sewage ; Interim 

 Ileport of the Committee on Instruments for Measuring the Speed of Ships and 

 Currents; — Itejiort on the Rainfall of the British Isles; -Ileport of the Coinniittee 

 on a (ieograi)hical Exploration of the Country of Moab; — Sur I'elimination des 

 Fonctions Arbitraires; — Ileport on the Discovery of Fossils in certain remote parts 

 of the North-western Highlands; — Ileport of the Committee on Eartlupiakcs in 

 Scotland ; — Fourth Ileport on Carboniferous-Limestone Corals ; — Ileport of the Com- 

 mittee to consider the mode in which new Inventions and Claims for Reward in 

 respect of adopted Inventions are exan.ined and dealt with by the different I)ei)art« 

 ments of Government; — Ileport of the Committee for discussing Observations of 

 Lunar Objects suspected of change ; Report on the Mollusca of Europe ;— Report of 

 the Committee for investigating the Chemical Constitution and Optical I'roperties 

 of Essential Oils ;— Report on the practicability of establishing a 'Close Time' for 

 the preservation of Indigenous Animals ; — Sixth Report on tlie Structure and Classi- 

 lication of Fossil Crustacea;— Report of tlie Committee appointed to organize an Ex- 

 pedition for observing the Solar Eclipse of Dec. 12, 1871 ; — Preliminary Report of 

 a Committee on Terat o-embryological Inquiries; — Report on Recent Progress in 

 Elliptic and Hyperelliptic Functions; Ileport on Tidal Observations; — On the 

 Hrighton Waterworks ; — On Amslers Planimeter, 



Together with tlie Transactions of the Sections, Dr. Carpenter's Address, and 

 Recommendations of the Association and its Committees. 



PROCEEDINGS of the FORTY-THIRD MEETING, at Bradford, 

 September 1873, Published at £1 5s. 



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Contents : — Report of the Committee on Mathematical Tables ; —Observations 

 on the Application jf Machinery to tlie Cutting of Cloal in Mines ; — Concluding Re- 

 port on the Maltese Fossil P>lephants; — Report of the Committee for ascertaining; 

 the Existence in different parts of the United Kingdom of any Erratic Blocks or 

 Boulders; — Fourth Report on Earthquakes in Scotland ; -Ninth Ileport on Kent> 

 Cavern ; — On the Flint and Chert Implements found in Kent's Cavern ; -Ileport of 

 the Committee for Investigating the Chemical Constitution and Optical Properties 

 of Essential Oils ; -Report of Inquiry into the Method of making (iold-assays ; 

 — Fifth Ileport on the Selection and Nomenclature of Dynamical and Electrical 

 Units; — Ileport of the Committee on the Labyrinthodonts of the Coal-mea.su'es ; 

 Report of the Committee appointed to construct and print Catalogues of Spectral 

 Rays ; — Ileport of the Committee appointed toexplorethe Settle Caves; — Sixthllcport 

 on Underground Temperature ;-— Report on the Rainfall of the British Isles ; -Seventh 

 Report on Researches in Fossil Crustacea; -Report on Recent Progress in Elliptic 

 and Hyperelliptic Functions ;— Report on the desirability of establishing a ' Close 

 Time ' for the preservation of Indigenous Animals ; — Report on Luminous Meteors ; 

 • -On the Visibility of the Dark Side of Venus ;— Ileport of liie Committee for the 

 Foundation of Zoological Stations in different })arts of the World; — Second Ileport o( 

 the Committee for collecting li'ossils from North-western Scotland ; — Fifth Report 

 on the Treatment and Utilization of Sewage; — Report of the Committee on Monthly 

 Reports of the Progress of Chemistry; — On the Bradford Waterworks;- Report on 

 the possibility of Improving the Methods of Instruction in Elementary Geometry ; 

 — Interim Report of the Committee on Instruments for Jleasuring the Speed of 

 Ships, &c. ; — Ileport of the Committee for Determinating High Temperatures by 

 means of the Ilefrangibility of Light evolved by Fluid or Solid Substances; — On a 

 periodicity of Cyclones and Rainfall in connexion with Sun-spot Periodicity ; — Fifth 

 Report on the Structure of Carboniferous-Limestone Corals ; — Report of the Com- 

 mittee on preparing and publishing brief forms of I^iStructions for Travellers, 

 Ethnologists, &c. ; — Preliminary Note from the Committee on the Influence of Forests 



