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Patent Laws: Report of Committee on the Patent Laws ;—J. Park Harrison, Lunar 
Influence on the Temperature of the Air :—Balfour Stewart, an Account of the Con- 
struction of the Self-recording Magnetographs at present in operation at the Kew 
Observatory of the British Association ;—Professor H. J. Stephen Smith, Report on 
the Theory of Numbers, Part I.;—Report of the Committee on Steamship 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 Address, and 
Recommendations of the Association and its Committees. 
PROCEEDINGS or toe THIRTIETH MEETING, at Oxford, June 
and July 1860, Published at 15s. 
CONTENTS :—James Glaisher, Report on Observations of Luminous Meteors, 
1859-60 ;—J. R. Kinahan, Report of Dublin Bay Dredging Committee ;—Rev. J. 
Anderson, Report on the Excavations in Dura Den;—Prof. Buckman, Report on 
the Experimental Plots in the Botanical Garden of the Royal Agricultural College, 
Cirencester ;—Rev. R. Walker, Report of the Committee on Balloon Ascents ;—Prof. 
W. Thomson, Report of Committee appointed to prepare a Self-recording Atmo- 
spheric Electrometer for Kew, and Portable Apparatus for observing Atmospheric 
Electricity ;—William Fairbairn, Experiments to determine the Effect of Vibratory 
Action and long-continued Changes of Load upon Wronght-iron Girders ;—R. P. 
Greg, Catalogue of Meteorites and Fireballs, from A.D. 2 to A.D. 1860;—Prof. H. J. 8. 
Smith, Report on the Theory of Numbers, Part II.;—Vice-Admiral Moorsom, on the 
Performance of Steam-vessels, the Functions of the Screw, and the Relations of its 
Diameter and Pitch to the Form of the Vessel ;—Rev. W. V. Harcourt, Report on the 
Effects of long-continued Heat, illustrative of Geological Phenomena ;—Second 
Report of the Committee on Steamship Performance ;—Interim Report on the Gauging 
of Water by Triangular Notches ;—List of the British Marine Invertebrate Fauna. 
Together with the Transactions of the Sections, Lord Wrottesley’s Address, and 
Recommendations of the Association and its Committees, 
PROCEEDINGS or ton THIRTY-FIRST MEETING, at Manches- 
ter, September 1861, Published at £1. 
CONTENTS :—James Glaisher, Report on Observations of Luminous Meteors ;— 
Dr. EH. Smith, Report on the Action of Prison Diet and Discipline on the Bodily 
Functions of Prisoners, Part I. ;—Charles Atherton, on Freight as affected by Differ- 
ences in the Dynamic Properties of Steamships;—Warren De La Rue, Report on the 
Progress of Celestial Photography since the Aberdeen Meeting ;—B. Stewart, on the 
Theory of Exchanges, and its recent extension ;—Drs. H. Schunck, R. Angus Smith, 
and H. E. Roscoe, on the Recent Progress and Present Condition of Manufacturing 
Chemistry in the South Lancashire District ;—Dr. J. Hunt, on Ethno-Climatology ; 
or, the Acclimatization of Man ;—Prof. J. Thomson, on Experiments on the Gauging 
of Water by Triangular Notches;—Dr. A. Voeleker, Report on Field Hxperiments 
and Laboratory Researches on the Constituents of Manures essential to cultivated 
Crops ;—Prof. H. Hennessy, Provisional Report on the Present State of our Knowledge 
respecting the Transmission of Sound-signals during Fogs at Sea ;—Dr. P. L. Sclater 
and F'. von Hochstetter, Report on the Present State of our Knowledge of the Birds 
of the Genus Apteryx living in New Zealand ;—J. G. Jeffreys, Report of the Results 
of Deep-sea Dredging in Zetland, with a Notice of several Species of Mollusca new 
to Science or to the British Isles ;—Prof. J. Phillips, Contributions to a Report on 
the Physical Aspect of the Moon ;—W. R. Birt, Contribution to a Report on the Phy- 
sical Aspect of the Moon;—Dr. Collingwood and Mr. Byerley, Preliminary Report 
of the Dredging Committee of the Mersey and Dee ;—Third Report of the Committee 
on Steamship Performance ;—J. G. Jeffreys, Preliminary Report on the Best Mode of 
preventing the Ravages of Teredo and other Animals in our Ships and Harbours ;— 
R. Mallet, Report on the Experiments made at Holyhead to ascertain the Transit- 
Velocity of Waves,analogous to Earthquake Waves, through the local Rock Formations 
