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Works onthedeology, Mineralogy, and I'alii-ontology of Wales (to the endof nr;n-— 

 On the rocc^nt Re.ival in Tiade. 



Together with tlio Transai^lions of flie Sections, Dr. A, C. Ramsay's Address, and 

 Recomuieudutiuns of the Association and its Committees. 



PROCKEDINGS of t 

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OK F1FTY.KIR8T MEETING, at York 

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C'oNTKNTrt; Iteport on the Calculiitioii of Tables of tlie Kundainental Invariants 

 of Algebraic Korins ; Itepori on lieeeiii Progress in llyilro.lynaiiiies (Part I.);— 

 Report on Meteorie Uust ; Second Iteport on the Cal'cuhition of Siin-heat Co- 

 ctllci<!nfH;- Fourteenth lt(>i)ort on llndeigroinid Teuiperatnre ; Keport on the 

 Measurement of the Lunar l)istuihiinc(( of (Iravity; Seeoiid lleport on an In- 

 vestigation for the purpose of fixing a Siiinilanl of White Ligjit ;— Final Report on 

 the Thermal Conductivities of certain Hocks; Koport on tiie maimer in whieii 

 Uudimentary Science should be taught, (iiid how Kxamiiialioiis should be hehl 

 therein, in Elementiiiy Schools; Tiiinl Ueport on the Tertiary Flora of the North 

 of Ireland ;--Keport on tiu- Metliod ol Determining the Specific Kefnictioii of Solids 

 from their Solutions; Fourfh lleiiort on the Stationary Tides in the Kiiglish Channel 

 and in the North Sea, A:c ; Second lte|-.orl on Fossil I'olyzoa; Ueport on the 

 Maintenance of the Scottish Zoological Station: - Keport cw the Occupation of a 

 Table at thi; Zoological Station at Naples; Iteport on tlu' Migration of Uirds-— 

 Ueport on the Natural History of Socoira; liejuirt on the Natural History of 

 Timor-laut; Heport on the Marine Faunii of the Southern Coast of Devon and 

 Cornwall; Ih-port on the Fartlupiake I'lienomeiia of .lapan ;— Ninth Iteport on 

 the Erratic Illoeks of Knglaiid, Wales, and Ireliiiid;- Second Hi'ixirt on the 

 Caves of till! South of Ireland; Heport on Patent i-egislation ; — Heport of the 

 Anthropometric- Comniittcu^; — He[)orf on the Appropriation of Wages, kv.; He- 

 port on Observations of Luminous Mett^ors; Hc^port on Miithematical Tables; 



Seventh Ueport on the Cir(nilation of IJn lert^round Waters in tiie Jurassic, 

 New Ued Sandstone, and Permian Formations of England, and the Quality aixl 

 Quantity of the Watcn- su[)i)lied to T(jwns and Districts from these Format icuis; — 

 Uejiorton the present state of our Knowledgeof Spectrum Analysis; -Interim Uepcjrt 

 of the Committee for constructing and issuing practical Standards for use in Fleet rical 

 Measurements; On sonu! new Tlu!orems on Curves of Double Curvature! ; -Observa- 

 tions of Atmospheric Flectricity at the Kew Observatory during 1880;— On the 

 Arrestation of Infusorial Life by Solar Light ;— On the Effects of Oceanic Currents 

 upon Climates; On Magnetic Disf'irbances and Earth Currents ; -On some Ap])lica- 

 tions of Electric Energy to Horticultural and Agricultural purposes;— On the Pressure 

 of Wind upon a Fixed I'laiii! Surface; ; On the Island of Socotra;— On some of tlie 

 Developments of Mechanical Engineering during the last Half-Century. 



Together with the Transactions of the Sections, Sir John Lubbock's Address, and 

 Recommendations of the A.s.sociation and its Committees. 



REPORT OP THE FIFTY-SECOND MEETING, at Southampton, 

 August 1882, Published at £l 4s. 



Contents : — Report on the Calculation of Tables of Fundamental Invariants of 

 Binary Quantics ; Ueport (provisional) of the Committee for co-ojierating with the 

 Meteorological Society of the Mauritius in their proposed publication of Daily 

 Synoptic Charts of the Indian Ocean from the year 1861 ;— Report of the Committee 

 appointed for fixing a Standard of White Light ;— Report on Recent Progress in 

 Hydrodynamics (Part II.) ; — Ueport of the Committee for constructing and issuing 

 practical Standards for use in Electrical ISIeasurements ;— Fifteenth Report on Under- 

 ground Temperature, with Summary of the Results contained in the Fifteen Reports 

 of the Underground Temperature Committee ;— Report on Meteoric Dust ;— Second 

 Report on the Measurement of the Lunar Disturbance of Gravity ;- Report on the 

 present state of our Knowledge of Spectrum Analysis ;— Report on the Investigation 

 by means of Photography of the Ultra-Violet Spark Spectra emitted by Metallic 

 Elements, and their combinati'ms under varying conditions ;— Report of the Com- 

 niittee for preparing a new Series of Tables of Wave-lengths of the Spectra of the 

 Elements ;— Report on the Methods employed in the Calibration of Mercurial Ther- 



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