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PROCEEDINGS or tur THIRTEENTH MEETING, at Cork, 
1848, Published at 12s. 
CONTENTS :—Robert Mallet, Third Report upon the Action of Air and Water, 
whether fresh or salt, clear or foul, and at Various Temperatures, upon Cast Iron, 
Wrought Iron, and Steel ;—Report of the Committee appointed to conduct the Co- 
operation of the British Association in the System of Simultaneous Magnetical and 
Meteorological Observations ;—Sir J. F. W. Herschel, Bart., Report of the Committee 
appointed for the Reduction of Meteorological Observations ;—Report of the Com- . 
mittee appointed for Experiments on Steam-Engines ;—Report of the Committee ap- 
pointed to continue their Experiments on the Vitality of Seeds ;—J. 8. Russell, Report 
of a Series of Observations on the Tides of the Frith of Forth and the East Coast of 
Scotland ;—J. 8. Russell, Notice of a Report of the Committee on the Form of Ships ; 
—J. Blake, Report on the Physiological Action of Medicines ;—Report of the Com- 
mittee on Zoological Nomenclature ;—Report of the Committee for Registering the 
Shocks of Earthquakes, and making such Meteorological Observations as may appear 
to them desirable ;—Report of the Committee for conducting Experiments with Cap- 
tive Balloons ;—Prof., Wheatstone, Appendix to the Report;—Report of the Com- 
mittee for the Translation and Publication of Foreign Scientific Memoirs ;—C. W. 
Peach, on the Habits of the Marine Testacea ;—H. Forbes, Report on the Mollusca 
and Radiata of the Agean Sea, and on their distribution, considered as bearing on 
Geology ;—L. Agassiz, Synoptical Table of British Fossil Fishes, arranged in the 
order of the Geological Formations ;—R. Owen, Report on the British Fossil Mam- 
malia, Part II. ;—E. W. Binney, Report on the excavation made at the junction of 
the Lower New Red Sandstone with the Coal Measures at Collyhurst ;—W. Thomp- 
son, Report on the Fauna of Ireland: Div. Invertebrata ;—Provisional Reports, and 
Notices of Progress in Special Researches entrusted to Committees and Individuals. 
Together with the Transactions of the Sections, the Earl of Rosse’s Address, and 
Recommendations of the Association and its Committees. 
PROCEEDINGS or tot FOURTEENTH MEETING, at York, 1844, 
Published at £1. 
CONTENTS :—W. B. Carpenter, on the Microscopic Structure of Shells ;—J. Alder 
and A. Hancock, Report on the British Nudibranchiate Mollusca;—R. Hunt, 
Researches on the Influence of Light on the Germination of Seeds and the Growth 
of Plants ;—Report of a Committee appointed by the British Association in 1840, 
for reyising the Nomenclature of the Stars ;—Lt.-Col. Sabine, on the Meteorology 
of Toronto in Canada ;—J. Blackwall, Report on some recent researches into the 
Structure, Functions, and Economy of "the Araneidea made in’Great Britain ;—EHarl 
of Rosse, on the Construction of large Reflecting Telescopes ;—Rev. W. V. Harcourt, 
Report on a Gas-furnace for Experiments on Vitrifaction and other Applications of 
High Heat in the Laboratory ;—Report of the Committee for Registering Harth- 
quake Shocks in Scotland ;—Report of a Committee for Experiments on Steam- 
Engines ;—Report of the Committee to investigate the Varieties of the Human 
Race ;—Fourth Report of a Committee appointed to continue their Experiments on 
the Vitality of Seeds ;—W. Fairbairn, on the Consumption of Fuel and the Preven- 
tion of Smoke ;—F. Ronalds, Report concerning the Observatory of the British 
Association at Kew;—Sixth Report of the Committee appointed to conduct the 
‘Co-operation of the British Association in the System of Simultaneous Magnetical 
and Meteorological Observations ;—Prof. Forchhammer on the influence of Fucoidal 
Plants upon the Formations of the Earth, on Metamorphism in general, and par- 
“'ticularly the Metamorphosis of the Scandinavian Alum Slate ;—H. E. Strickland, 
* Report on the Recent Progress and Present State of Ornithology ;—T. Oldham, 
Report of Committee appointed to conduct Observations on Subterranean Tempera- 
ture in Ireland ;—Prof. Owen, Report on the Extinct Mammals of Australia, and 
descriptions of certain Fossils indicative of the former existence in that continent 
of large Marsupial Representatives of the Order Pachydermata;—W. S. Harris, 
Report on the working of Whewell and Osler’s Anemometers at Plymouth, for the 
years 1841, 1842, 1843 ;—W. R. Birt, Report on Atmospheric Waves ;—L. Agassiz, 
~ Rapport sur les Poissons Fossiles ‘de LPArgile de Londres, with translation ;—J. 8. 
