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internal structure of their Spinning Organs; — W. Fairbairn, Report of the Committee on the 

 Patent Laws; — S. Eddy, on the Lead Mining Districts of Yorkshire ; — W. Fairbairn, on the 

 Collapse of Glass Globes and Cylinders; — Dr. E. Perceval Wright and Prof. J. Reay Greene, 

 Report on the Marine Fauna of the South and West Coasts of Ireland ; — Prof. J. Thomson, on 

 Experiments on the Measurement of Water by Triangular Notches in Weir Boards; — Major- 

 General Sabine, Report of the Committee on the Magnetic Survey of Great Britain ; — Michael 

 Connal and William Keddie, Report on Animal, Vegetable, and Mineral Substances imported 

 from Foreign Countries into the Clyde (including the Ports of Glasgow, Greenock, and Port 

 Glasgow) in the years 1853, 1854, 1855, 1856, and 1857 ; — Report of the Committee on Ship- 

 ping Statistics; — Rev. H. Lloyd, D.D., Notice of the Instruments employed in the Mag- 

 netic Survey of Ireland, with some of the Results; — Prof. J. R. Kinahan, Report of Dublin 

 Dredging Committee, appointed 1857-58 ; — Prof. J. R. Kinahan, Report on Crustacea of Dub- 

 lin District; — Andrew Henderson, on River Steamers, their Form, Construction, and Fittings, 

 with reference to the necessity for improving the present means of Shallow-Water Navigation 

 on the Rivets of British India; — George C. Hyndman, Report of the Belfast Dredging Com- 

 mittee ; — Appendix to Mr. Vignoles' paper " On the Adaptation of Suspension Bridges to sus- 

 tain the passage of Railway Trains;" — Report of the Joint Committee of the Royal Society and 

 the British Association, for procuring a continuance of the Magnetic and Meteorological Ob- 

 servatories; — R. Beckley, Description of a Self-recording Anemometer. 



Together with the Transactions of the Sections, Prof. Owen's Address, and Recommenda- 

 tions of the Association and its Committees. 



PROCEEDINGS of the TWENTY-NINTH MEETING, at Aberdeen, 

 September 1859, Published at 1 5s. 



Contents : — George C. Foster, Preliminary Report on the Recent Progress and Present 

 State of Organic Chemistry ; — Professor Buckman, Report on the Growth of Plants in the 

 Garden of the Royal Agricultural College, Cirencester; — Dr. A. Voelcker, Report on Field 

 Experiments and Laboratory Researches on the Constituents of Manures essential to cultivated 

 Crops ; — A. Thomson, Esq. of Banchory, Report on the Aberdeen Industrial Feeding Schools ; 

 — On the Upper Silurians of Lesmahago, Lanarkshire ; — Alphonse Gages, Report on the Re- 

 sults obtained by the Mechanico-Chemical Examination of Rocks and Minerals ; — William 

 Fairbairn, Experiments to determine the Efficiency of Continuous and Self-acting Breaks for 

 Railway Trains; — Professor J. R. Kinahan, Report of Dublin Bay Dredging Committee for 

 1858-59 ; — Rev. Baden Powell, Report on Observations of Luminous Meteors for 1858-59 ; 

 — Professor Owen, Report on a Series of Skulls of various Tribes of Mankind inhabiting 

 Nepal, collected, and presented to the British Museum, by Bryan II. Hodgson, Esq.,la(e Re- 

 sident in Nepal, &c. &c. ; — Messrs. Maskelyne, Hadow, Hardwich, and Llewelyn, Report on 

 the Present State of our Knowledge regarding the Photographic Image; — G. C. Hyndman, 

 Report of the Belfast Dredging Committee for 1859 ; — James Oldham, Continuation of Report 

 of the Progress of Steam Navigation at Hull; — -Charles Atherton, Mercantile Steam Trans- 

 port Economy as affected by the Consumption of Coals; — Warren de la Rue, Report on the 

 present state of Celestial Photography in England ; — Professor Owen, on the Orders of Fossil 

 and Recent Reptilia, and their Distribution in Time ; — Balfour Stewart, on some Results of the 

 Magnetic Survey of Scotland in the years 1857 and 1S58, undertaken, at the request of the 

 British Association, by the late John Welsh, Esq., F.R.S. ;— W. Fairbairn, The Patent Laws : 

 Report of Committee on the Patent Laws; — J. Park Harrison, Lunar Influence on the Tern • 

 perature of the Air; — Balfour Stewart, an Account of the Construction .of the Self-recording 

 Magnetographs at present in operation at the Kew Observatory of the British Association ; — 

 Prof. H. J. Stephen Smith, Report on the Theory of Numbers : Part I. ; — Report of the 

 Committee on Steam-ship performance ; — Report of the Proceedings of the Balloon Committee 

 of the British Association appointed at the Meeting at Leeds ; — Prof. William K. Sullivan, 

 Preliminary Report on the Solubility of Salts at Temperatures above 100° Cent., and on the 

 Mutual Action of Salts in Solution. 



Together with the Transactions of the Sections, Prince Albert's AdJress, and Recommenda- 

 tions of the Association and its Committees. 



