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' PROCEEDINGS or rae FORTIETH MEETING, at Liverpool, 
‘September 1870, Published at 18s. 
ConTENTS :—Report on Steam-boiler Explosions ;—Report of the Committee on 
the Hematite Iron-ores of Great Britain and Ireland ;—Report on the Sedimentary 
Deposits of the River Onny ;—Report on the Chemical Nature of Cast Iron ;—Re- 
‘port on the practicability of establishing a ‘Close Time’ for the protection of 
Indigenous Animals ;—Report on Standards of Electrical Resistance ;—Sixth Report 
‘on Kent's Cavern ;—Third Report on Underground Temperature ;—Second Report of 
the Committee appointed to get cut and prepared Sections of Mountain- Limestone 
Corals ;—Second Report on the Stability, Propulsion, and Seagoing Qualities of 
Ships ;—Report on Earthquakes in Scotland ;—Report on the Treatment and Utili- 
zation of Sewage ;—Report on Observations of Luminous Meteors, 1869-70 ;—Report 
on Recent Progress in Elliptic and Hyperelliptic Functions ;—Report on Tidal Ob- 
servations ;—On a new Steam-power Meter ;—Report on the Action of the Methyl 
and Allied Series;—Report of the Rainfall Committee ;—Report on the Heat 
generated in the Blood in the Process of Arterialization ;—Report on the best 
means of providing for Uniformity of Weights and Measures. 
Together with the Transactions of the Sections, Prof. Huxley’s Address, and Re- 
commendations of the Association and its Committees. 
PROCEEDINGS or ras FORTY-FIRST MEETING, at Edinburgh, 
August 1871, Published at 16s. 
ConTEnts :—Seventh Report on Kent’s Cavern ;—Fourth Report on Under- 
ground Temperature ;—Report on Observations of Luminous Meteors, 1870-71 ;— 
Fifth Report on the Structure and Classification of the Fossil Crustacea ;—Report 
of the Committee appointed for the purpose of urging on Her Majesty’s Government 
the expediency of arranging and tabulating the results of the approaching Census 
in the three several parts of the United Kingdom in such a manner as to admit of 
ready and effective comparison ;—Report of the Committee appointed for the purpose 
of Superintending the Publication of Abstracts of Chemical Papers ;—Report of the 
Committee for discussing Observations of Lunar Objects suspected of change ;— 
Second Provisional Report on the Thermal Conductivity of Metals ;—Report on 
the Rainfall of the British Isles;—Third Report on the British Fossil Corals ;— 
Report on the Heat generated in the Blood during the Process of Arterialization ; 
—Report of the Committee appointed to consider the subject of Physiological 
‘Experimentation ;—Report on the Physiological Action of Organic Chemical Com- 
‘pounds ;—Report of the Committee appointed to get cut and prepared Sections of 
Mountain-Limestone Corals ;—Second Report on Steam-Boiler Explosions ;—Re- 
port on the Treatment and Utilization of Sewage ;—Report on promoting the Foun- 
dation of Zoological Stations in different parts of the World ;—Preliminary Report 
on the Thermal Equivalents of the Oxides of Chlorine ;— Report on the practica- 
bility of establishing a ‘Close Time’ for the protection of Indigenous Animals ; 
‘—Report on Earthquakes in Scotland ;—Report on the best means of providing for 
‘a Uniformity of Weights and Measures ;—Report on Tidal Observations. 
Together with the Transactions of the Sections, Sir William Thomson’s Address, 
and Recommendations of the Association and its Committees. 
PROCEEDINGS or tap FORTY-SECOND MEETING, at Brighton, 
August 1872, Published at £1 4s. 
CoNnTENTS :—Report on the Gaussian Constants for the Year 1829 ;—Second Sup- 
plementary Report on the Extinct Birds of the Mascarene Islands ;—Report of the 
Committee for Superintending the Monthly Reports of the Progress of Chemistry ;— 
Report of the Committee on the best means of providing for a Uniformity of 
Weights and Measures ;—EHighth Report on Kent’s Cavern ;—Report on promoting the 
Foundation of Zoological Stations in different parts of the World ;—Fourth Report 
