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on the Kainfall;- Ilcpovt of tlio Snb-Woiildon Kxploratinn Committpo ; - Itoport of 

 the Committee on Machinery for ohtainin-' a IJccord of the Uout,'hm-.ss of t lie Son 

 and Measurement of Waves near shore ;- IJeporton Science Lectures and Organi- 

 zation ; Second Report on Science Lectures and Or^raiiization. 



Together with tlie Transactions of the Sections, I'rof. A. \V. Williamson's Address, 

 and Recommendations of tlic Association and its Committees. 



PROCEEDINGS ok tiik FORTY-FOURTH MKETING at Belfast 

 August 1874, rabliyh'd nt £1 on. 



CONTKNTS:- Tentli Report on Kent's Cavern; Report for Invest ifjafin^,' the 

 Chemical Constitution and Optical Properties of Kssential Oils;- Second Report of 

 the Suh-Wealden Exploration Committee ;-^ On I ho Recent Pro<,rress nnd Present 

 State of Systematic liotaiiy ;— Report of the Committee for invest i'jl'aliii-- the Nature 

 of Intestinal Secretion;- Report of the Committee on the Teachhi:, of I'livsi'cs in 

 Schools ;-l'reliminary Rejjort for invest ij^atinij Isomeric Creaols and their'l)eri\a- 

 tives; -Third Report of the Committee for collecting Kossils from localities in 

 North-western Scotland ;— Report on the Kainfall of the. llritish Isles; -On the Bel- 

 fast Harbour ;— Report of huiuiry into tiie Metiiod of making' Gold-assays ; -Rejjort 

 of a Committee on Experiments to determine tlu^ Thermal (Vmductivities of certain 

 Rocks;— Second Rejxirt on the Exploration of the Settle (!aves ; -On the Industrial 

 uses of the Upper Rann River ;— Report of the Committee on the Structure and 

 Classitication of the Labyrinthodonts ;- Second Rej)ort of the Committee for record- 

 ing the position, hei<j;ht above the sea, litliological characters, size, and ori^'in of the 

 Hrratic Hlocks of England and Wales, i<:c. ; Sixth Report on thi; Treatment and 

 Utilization of Sewage ;- Report on the Anthropological Notes and Queries for the 

 use of Travellers ;— On (jyelone and Rainfall Periodicities ;- Fifth Rojxirt on Kartli- 



&c. ; — Second Report for the Selection and Nonu'nclature of Dynamical aiul Elec- 

 trical Units; — On Instruments for measuring the Speed of Ships ;- Report of the 

 Committee on the possibility of establishing a '(yloscTime' for the Protection of 

 Indigenous Animals ;- Report of the Committee to inquire into the econonuc effects 

 of Combinations of Labourers and Capitalists ;— Preliminary Report on Dredging on 

 the Coasts of Durham and North Yorkshire ; -Report on Luminous Meteors ;~- Re- 

 port on the best means of providing for a Unifcjrmity of Weights and Measures. 



Together with the Tran.sactions of the Sections, Prof. John Tyndall's Address, and 

 Recommendations of the Association and its Committees. 



PROCEEDINGS of the FORTr-FIFTH MEETING, at Bristol, 

 August 1875, Puhiished itt £1 5.*. 



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

 ground Temperature; — Report on the Zoological Station at Naples ;-)!eport of a 

 Committee appointed to inquire into 'i' Methods employed in the Estimation of 

 Potash and Phosphoric Acid in Comnit oial Products ; Report on the present state 

 of our Knowledge of the Crustacea ;~-Second Report on the Thermal Conduc- 

 tivities of certain Rocks ; Preliminary Rejxirt of the Committee for extending the 

 Observations on the Specific Volumes of Liquids ;— Sixth Report on Earthquakes 

 in Scotland ; — Seventh Report on the Treatment and Utili.^ation of Sewage ; -Re- 

 port of the Committee for furthering the Palestine Explorations ;— Third Report of 

 the Committee for recording the position, height above the sea, lithological 

 characters, size, and origin of the Erratic lUocks of England and Wales, &c. ;— 

 Report of the Rainfall Committee ;— Report of the Committee for investigating 

 Isomeric Cresols and their Derivatives ;— Report of the Committee for investigating 

 the Circulation of the Underground Waters in the New Red Sandstone and Permian 

 Formations of England ; — On the Steering of Screw-Steamers ;"Second Reinirt of 





