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mometers ;—Second Report on the Earthquake Phenomena of Japan ;—Eighth Report 
on the Circulation of the Underground Waters in the Permeable Formations of 
England, and the Quality and Quantity of the Water supplied to various Towns and 
Districts from these Formations ;—Report on the Conditions under which ordinary 
Sedimentary Materials may be converted into Metamorphic Rocks ;—Report on 
Explorations in Caves of Carboniferous Limestone in the South of Ireland ;—Report 
on the Preparation of an International Geological Map of Europe ;—Tenth Report on 
the Erratic Blocks of England, Wales, and Ireland ;—Report on Fossil Polyzoa 
(Jurassic Species—British Area only);—Preliminary Report on the Flora of the 
‘Halifax Hard Bed,’ Lower Coal Measures ;-—Report on the Influence of Bodily 
Exercise on the Elimination of Nitrogen ;—Report of the Committee appointed for 
obtaining Photographs of the Typical Races in the British Isles ;—Preliminary 
Report on the Ancient Earthwork in Epping Forest known as the Loughton Camp ; 
—Second Report on the Natural History of Timor-laut ;—Report of the Committee 
for carrying out the recommendations of the Anthropometric Committee of 1880, 
especially as regards the anthropometry of children and of females, and the more 
complete discussion of the collected facts;—Report on the Natural History of 
Socotra and the adjacent Highlands of Arabia and Somali Land ;—Report on the 
Maintenance of the Scottish Zoological Station;—Report on the Migration of 
Birds ;—Report on the Occupation of a Table at the Zoological Station at Naples ;— 
Report on the Survey of Eastern Palestine ;—Final Report on the Appropriation of 
Wages, &c. ;—Report on the workings of the revised New Code, and of other legisla- 
tion affecting the teaching of Science in Elementary Schools ;—Report on Patent 
Legislation ;—Report of the Committee for determining a Gauge for the manufacture 
of various small Screws ;—Report on the best means of ascertaining the Effective 
Wind Pressure to which buildings and structures are exposed ;—On the Boiling 
Points and Vapour Tension of Mercury, of Sulphur, and of some Compounds of 
Carbon, determined by means of the Hydrogen Thermometer ;—On the Method of 
Harmonic Analysis used in deducing the Numerical Values of the Tides of long 
period, and on a Misprint in the Tidal Report for 1872 ;—List of Works on the 
Geology and Paleontology of Oxfordshire, of Berkshire, and of Buckinghamshire ;— 
Notes on the oldest Records of the Sea-Route to China from Western Asia ;—The 
Deserts of Africa and Asia;—State of Crime in England, Scotland, and Ireland in 
1880 ;—On the Treatment of Steel for the Construction of Ordnance, and other pur- 
poses ;—The Channel Tunnel ;—The Forth Bridge. 
Together with the Transactions of the Sections, Dr. C. W. Siemens’s Address, and 
Recommendations of the Association and its Committees. 
REPORT or tHe FIFTY-THIRD MEETING, at Southport, 
September 1883, Published at £1 4s. 
CONTENTS :—Report of the Committee for constructing and issuing practical 
Standards for use in Electrical Measurements ;—Sixteenth Report on Underground 
Temperature ;—Report on the best Experimental Methods that can be used in ob- 
serving Total Solar Eclipses ;—Report on the Harmonic Analysis of Tidal Observa- 
tions ;—Report of the Committee for co-operating with the Meteorological Society of 
the Mauritius in their proposed publication of Daily Synoptic Charts of the 
Indian Ocean from the year 1861 ;—Report on Mathematical Tables ;—Report of the 
Committee for co-operating with the Scottish Meteorological Society in making 
Meteorological Observations on Ben Nevis ;— Report on Meteoric Dust ;—Report of 
the Committee appointed for fixing a Standard of White Light ;—Report on Chemical 
Nomenclature ;—Report on the investigation by means of Photography of the Ultra- 
Violet Spark Spectra emitted by Metallic Elements, and their combinations under 
varying conditions ;—Report on Isomeric Naphthalene Derivatives ;—Report on 
Explorations in Caves in the Carboniferous Limestone in the South of Ireland ;— 
Report on the Exploration of Raygill Fissure, Yorkshire ;—Eleventh Report on the 
Erratic Blocks of England, Wales, and Jreland ;—Ninth Report on the Circulation of 
the Underground Waters in the Permeable Formations of England, and the Quality 
and Quantity of the Water supplied to various Towns and Districts from these For- 
mations ;—Report on the Fossil Plants of Halifax;—Fourth Report on Fossil 
Polyzoa ;—Fourth Report on the Tertiary Flora of the North of Ireland ;— Report on 
the Earthquake Phenomena of Japan ;—Report on the Fossil Phyllopoda of the 
