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on the Fauna of South Devon ;—Preliminary Report of the Committee appointed to 
Construct and Print Catalogues of Spectral Rays arranged upon a Scale of Wave- 
numbers ;—Third Report on Steam-Boiler Explosions ;—Report on Observations of 
Luminous Meteors, 1871-72 ;—Experiments on the Surface-friction experienced by — 
a Plane moving through Water ;—Report of the Committee on the Antagonism be- 
tween the Action of Active Substances ;—Fifth Report on Underground Tempera- — 
ture ;—Preliminary Report of the Committee on Siemens’s Electrical-Resistance 
Pyrometer :—Fourth Report on the Treatment and Utilization of Sewage ;—Interim 
Report of the Committee on Instruments for Measuring the Speed of Ships and — 
Currents ;—Report on the Rainfall of the British Isles ;—Report of the Committee — 
on a Geographical Exploration of the Country of Moab;—Sur l’élimination des 
Fonctions Arbitraires ;—Report on the Discovery of Fossils in certain remote parts 
of the North-western Highlands ;—Report of the Committee on Earthquakes in 
Scotland ;—Fourth Report on Carboniferous-Limestone Corals ;—Report of the Com- 
mittee to consider the mode in which new Inventions and Claims for Reward in 
respect of adopted Inventions are examined and dealt with by the different Depart- 
ments of Government ;—Report of the Committee for discussing Observations of 
Lunar Objects suspected of change ;—Report on the Mollusca of Europe ;—Report of 
the Committee for investigating the Chemical Constitution and Optical Properties 
of Essential Oils ;—Report on the practicability of establishing a ‘Close Time’ for 
the preservation of Indigenous Animals ;—Sixth Report on the Structure and Classi- 
fication of Fossil Crustacea ;—Report of the Committee appointed to organize an Ex- 
pedition for observing the Solar Eclipse of Dec. 12, 1871 ;—Preliminary Report of 
a Committee on Terato-embryological Inquiries ;—Report on Recent Progress in 
Elliptic and Hyperelliptic Functions ;—Report on Tidal Observations ;—On the 
Brighton Waterworks ;—On Amsler’s Planimeter. 
Together with the Transactions of the Sections, Dr. Carpenter’s Address, and 
Recommendations of the Association and its Committees. 
PROCEEDINGS or tap FORTY-THIRD MEETING, at Bradford, 
September 1878, Published at £1 5s. 
CONTENTS :—Report of the Committee on Mathematical Tables ;—Observations 
on the Application of Machinery to the Cutting of Coal in Mines ;—Concluding Re- 
port on the Maltese Fossil Elephants ;—Report of the Committee for ascertaining 
the Existence in different parts of the United Kingdom of any Erratic Blocks or 
Boulders ;—Fourth Report on Earthquakes in Scotland ;—Ninth Report on Kent’s 
Cavern ;—On the Flint and Chert Implements found in Kent’s Cavern ;—Report of 
the Committee for Investigating the Chemical Constitution and Optical Properties 
of Essential Oils ;—Report of Inquiry into the Method of making Gold-assays ; 
—Fifth Report on the Selection and Nomenclature of Dynamical and Electrical 
Units ;—Report of the Committee on the Labyrinthodonts of the Coal-measures ;— 
Report of the Committee appointed to construct and print Catalogues of Spectral 
Rays ;—Report of the Committee appointed to explore the Settle Caves;—Sixth Report 
on Underground Temperature ;—Report on the Rainfall of the British Isles ;—Seventh 
Report on Researches in Fossil Crustacea ;—Report on Recent Progress in Elliptic 
and Hyperelliptic Functions ;—Report on the desirability of establishing a ‘ Close 
Time’ for the preservation of Indigenous Animals ;—Report on Luminous Meteors ; 
-——On the Visibility of the Dark Side of Venus ;—Report of the Committee for the 
Foundation of Zoological Stationsin different parts of the World ;—Second Report of 
the Committee for collecting Fossils from North-western Scotland ;—Fifth Report 
on the Treatment and Utilization of Sewage ;—Report of the Committee on Monthly 
Reports of the Progress of Chemistry ;—On the Bradford Waterworks ;—Report on 
the possibility of Improving the Methods of Instruction in Elementary Geometry ; 
—Interim Report of the Committee on Instruments for Measuring the Speed of 
Ships, &c.;—Report of the Committee for Determinating High Temperatures by 
means of the Refrangibility of Light evolved by Fluid or Solid Substances ;—On a 
periodicity of Cyclones and Rainfall in connexion with Sun-spot Periodicity ;—Fifth 
Report on the Structure of Carboniferous-Limestone Corals ;—Report of the Com- 
mittee on preparing and publishing brief forms of Instructions for Travellers, 
Ethnologists, &c. ;—Preliminary Note from the Committee on the Influence of Forests 
