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the Committee on Combinations of Capital and Labour ; — Report on the Method of 

 making Gold-assays ;— Eighth Report on Underground Temperature ; —Tides in the 

 River Mersey ; — Sixth Report of the Committee on the Structure of Carboniferous 

 Corals ; — Report of the Committee appointed to explore the Settle Caves ; — On 

 the River Avon (Bristol), its Drainage-Area, &c. ; — Report of the Committee on 

 the possibility of establishing a ' Close Time ' for the Protection of Indigenous 

 Animals ; — Report of the Committee appointed to superintend the Publication of 

 the Monthly Reports of the Progress of Chemistry ;— Report on Dredging off the 

 Coasts of Durham and North Yorkshire in 1874 ; — Report on Luminous Meteors ; — On 

 the Analytical Forms called Trees;— Report of the Committee on Mathematical 

 Tables ; — Report of the Committee on Mathematical Notation and Printing ;— Second 

 Report of the Committee for investigating Intestinal Secretion ; — Third Report of 

 the Sub-Wealden Exploration Committee. 



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

 •and Recommendations of the Association and its Committees. 



PROCEEDINGS of the FORTY-SIXTH MEETING, at Glasgow, 

 September 1876, Published at £1 5s. 



Contents : — Twelfth Report on Kent's Cavern ; — Report on Improving the 

 Methods of Instruction in Elementary Geometry ; — Results of a Comparison of the 

 British- Association Units of Electrical Resistance ; — Third Report on the Thermal 

 Conductivities of certain Rocks ; — Report of the Committee on the practicability of 

 adopting a Common Measure of Value in the Assessment of Direct Taxation ;— 

 Report of the Committee for testing experimentally Ohm's Law ; — Report of the 

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

 Indigenous Animals ; — Report of the Committee on the Effect of Propellers on the 

 Steering of "Vessels ; — On the Investigation of the Steering Qualities of Ships ; — 

 Seventh Report on Earthquakes in Scotland ; — Report on the present state of our 

 Knowledge of the Crustacea ;— Second Report of the Committee for investigating 

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

 Formations of England ; — Fourth Report of the Committee on the Erratic Blocks of 

 England and Wales, &c. ; — Fourth Report of the Committee on the Exploration of 

 the Settle Caves (Victoria Cave) ; — Report on Observations of Luminous Meteors, 



1875-76; Report on the Rainfall of the British Isles, 1875-76;— Ninth Report on 



Underground Temperature ; — Nitrous Oxide in the Gaseous and Liquid States ; — 

 Eighth Report on the Treatment and Utilization of Sewage ; — Improved Investiga- 

 tions on the Flow of Water through Orifices, with Objections to the modes of treat- 

 ment commonly adopted ;— Report of the Anthropometric Committee ;— On Cyclone 

 and Rainfall Periodicities in connexion with the Sim-spot Periodicity ; — Report of 

 the Committee for determining the Mechanical Equivalent of Heat ; — Report of the 

 Committee on Tidal Observations ;— Third Report of the Committee on the Condi- 

 tions of Intestinal Secretion and Movement ;— Report of the Committee for collect- 

 ing and suggesting subjects for Chemical Research. 



Together with the Transactions of the Sections, Dr. T. Andrews's Address, and 

 Recommendations of the Association and its Committees. 



PROCEEDINGS of the EORTY-SEVENTH MEETING, at Ply- 

 mouth, August 1877, Published at £1 4s. 



Contents : — Thirteenth Report on Kent's Cavern ; — Second and Third Reports 

 on the Methods employed in the estimation of Potash and Phosphoric Acid in Com- 

 mercial Products ; — Report on the present state of our Knowledge of the Crustacea 



(Part III.) ; Third Report on the Circulation of the Underground Waters in the New 



Red Sandstone and Permian Formations of England ;— Fifth Report on the Erratic 

 Blocks of England, Wales, and Ireland ; — Fourth Report on the Thermal Conducti- 

 vities of certain Rocks ; — Report on Observations of Luminous Meteors, 1876-77 ; — 

 Tenth Report on Underground Temperature ; — Report on the Effect of Propellers on 

 the Steerin°- of Vessels ; — Report on the possibility of establishing a ' Close Time ' 

 for the Protection of Indigenous Animals ; — Report on some Double Compounds of 



