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Strength and other Mechanical Properties of Iron obtained from the Hot and Cold 

 Blast ;— W. Fairbairn, on the Strength and other Properties of Iron obtained from 

 the Hot and Cold Blast; — Sir J. Kobinson and J. S. Piussell, Keport of the Committee 

 on Waves ; — Note by Major Sabine, being an Appendix to his Keport on the Varia- 

 tions of the Magnetic Intensity observed at different Points of the Earth's Surface ; 

 — J. Yates, on the Growth of Plants under Glass, and without any free communica- 

 tion with the outward Air, on the Plan of Mr. N. J. Ward, of London. 



Together with the Transactions of the Sections, Prof. Traill's Address, and Kecom- 

 mendations of the Association and its Committees. 



PROCEEDINGS of the EIGHTH MEETING, at Newcastle, 1838, 

 Puhlished at 15s. (Out of Print.) 



Contents : — Rev. W. Whewell, Account of a Level Line, measured fi'om the 

 Bristol Channel to the English Channel, by Mr. Bunt ; — Eeporton the Discussions of 

 Tides, prepared under the direction of the Rev. W. Whewell ; — W. S. Harris, Account 

 of the Progress and State of the Meteorological Observations at Plymouth ; — Major 

 E. Sabine, on the Magnetic Isoclinal and Isodynamic Lines in the British Islands ; 

 — Dr. Lardner, on the Determination of the Mean Numerical Values of Rail- 

 way Constants; — R. Mallet, First Report upon Experiments upon the Action of Sea 

 and River Water upon Cast and Wrought Iron ; — R. Mallet, on the Action of a Heat 

 of 212° Fahr., when long continued, on Inorganic and Organic Substances. 



Together with the Transactions of the Sections, Mr. Murchison's Address, and 

 Recommendations of the Association and its Committees. 



PROCEEDINGS of the NINTH MEETING, at BirmiDgham, 1839, 

 Puhlished at 13s. 6d. (Out of Print.) 



Contents :•— Rev. B. Powell, Report on the Present State of our Knowledge of 

 Refractive Indices, for the Standard Rays of the Solar Spectrum in different media ; 

 Report on the Application of the Sum assigned for Tide Calculations to Rev. W. 

 Whewell, in a letter from T. G. Bunt, Esq.; — H. L. Pattinson, on some Galvanic 

 Experiments to determine the Existence or Non-Existence of Electrical Currents 

 among Stratified Rocks, particularly those of the Mountain Limestone formation, 

 constituting the Lead Measures of Alton Moor ; — Sir D. Brewster, Reports respecting 

 the Two Series of Hourly Meteorological Observations kept in Scotland ; — Report on 

 the subject of a series of Resolutions adopted by the British Association at their 

 Meeting in August 1838, at Newcastle ; — R. Owen, Report on British Fossil Reptiles ; 

 — E. Forbes, Report on the Distribution of the Pulmoniferous Mollusca in the British 

 Isles ; — W. S. Harris, Third Report on the Progress of the Hourly Meteorological 

 Register at Plymouth Dockyard. 



Together with the Transactions of the Sections, Rev. W. Vernon Harcourt's 

 Address, and Recommendations of the Association and its Committees. 



PROCEEDINGS of the TENTH MEETING, at Glasgow, 1840, 

 Puhlished at 15s. (Out of Print.) 



Contents : — Rev. B. Powell, Report on tlie Recent Progress of discovery relative 

 to Radiant Heat, supplementary to a former Report on the same subject inserted in 

 the first volume of the Reports of the British Association for the Advancement of 

 Science ; — J. D. Forbes, Supplementary Report on Meteorology ; — W. S. Harris, Re- 

 port on Prof. Whewell's Anemometer, now in operation at Plymouth ; — Report on 

 « The Motion and Sounds of the Heart,' by the London Committee of the British 

 Association, for 1839-40; — Prof. Schonbein, an Account of Researches in Electro- 

 chemistry ; — R. Mallet, Second Report upon the Action of Air and Water, whether 

 fresh or salt, clear or foul, and at various temperatures, upon Cast Iron, AVrought 

 Iron, and Steel ; — R. W. Fox, Report on some Observations on Subterranean Tempe- 

 rature ; — A. F. Osier, Report on the Observations recorded during the years 1837, 

 1838, 1839, and 1840, by the Self -registering Anemometer erected at the Philosophical 

 Institution, Birmingham ; — Sir D. Brewster, Report respecting the Two Series of 

 Hourly Meteorological Observations kept at Inverness and Kingussie, from Nov. 1st, 

 1838. to Not. 1st, 1839 :— W. Thompson. Report on the Fauna of Ireland: Dir. Verte- 



