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on the Rainfall ; — Report of the Sub-Wealden Exploration Committee ; — Report of 

 the Committee on Machinery for obtaining a Record of the Roughness of the Sea 

 and Measurement of Waves near shore ; — Report on Science Lectures and Organi- 

 zation ; — Second Report on Science Lectures and Organization. 



Together with the Transactions of the Sections, Prof. A. W. Williamson's Address,, 

 and Recommendations of the Association and its Committees. 



PROCEEDINGS of the FORTY-FOURTH MEETING, at Belfast, 

 August 1874, Published at £1 5s. 



Contents : — Tenth Report on Kent's Cavern ; — Report for investigating the 

 Chemical Constitution and Optical Properties of Essential Oils ; — Second Report of 

 the Sub-Wealden Exploration Committee ; — On the Recent Progress and Present 

 State of Systematic Botany ; — Report of the Committee for investigating the Nature 

 of Intestinal Secretion ; — Report of the Committee on the Teaching of Physics in. 

 Schools; — Preliminary Report for investigating Isomeric Cresols and their Deriva- 

 tives ; — Third Report of the Committee for collecting Fossils from localities in 

 North-western Scotland ; — Report on the Rainfall of the British Isles ; — On the Bel- 

 fast Harbour ; — Report of Inquiry into the Method of making Gold-assays ; — Report 

 of a Committee on Experiments to determine the Thermal Conductivities of certain 

 Rocks ; — Second Report on the Exploration of the Settle Caves ; — On the Industrial' 

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

 Classification of the Labyrinthodonts ; — Second Report of the Committee for record- 

 ing the position, height above the sea, lithological characters, size, and origin of the 

 Erratic Blocks of England and Wales, &c. ;— Sixth Report on the Treatment and 

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

 use of Travellers ;— On Cyclone and Rainfall Periodicities ; — Fifth Report on Earth- 

 quakes in Scotland ;— Report of the Committee appointed to prepare and print 

 Tables of Wave-numbers ; — Report of the Committee for testing the new Pyrometer 

 of Mr. Siemens ; — Report to the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty on Experi- 

 ments for the Determination of the Frictional Resistance of Water on a Surface, 

 &c. ; — Second Report for the Selection and Nomenclature of Dynamical and Elec- 

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

 Committee on the possibility of establishing a ' Close Time ' for the Protection of 

 Indigenous Animals ; — Report of the Committee to inquire into the economic 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 Uniformity of Weights and Measures. 



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

 Recommendations of the Association and its Committees. 



PROCEEDINGS op the FORTY-FIFTH MEETING, at Bristol 

 August 1875, Published at £1 5s. 



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

 ground Temperature;— Report on the Zoological Station at Naples ;— Report of a 

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

 Potash and Phosphoric Acid in Commercial Products ; — Report on the present state 

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

 tivities of certain Rocks ; —Preliminary Report of the Committee for extending the 

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

 in Scotland ;— Seventh Report on the Treatment and Utilization 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 Blocks of England and Wales, Sec. ; 



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 Report of 



