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hrata; — C. J. B. Williams, M.D., Report of Experiments on the Physiology of the Lungs 

 and Air-Tubes ; — Rev. J. S. Henslow, Report of the Committee on the Preservation 

 of Animal and Vegetable Substances. 



Together with the Transactions of the . Sections, Mr. Murchison and Major E, 

 Sabine's Address, and Recommendations of the Association and its Committees. 



PROCEEDINGS of the ELEVENTH MEETING, at Plymouth, 



1841, PuhUshed at 13.',-. 6cl 



Contents: — Rev. P. Kelland, on the Present State of our Theoretical and Expe- 

 rimental Knowledge of the Laws of Conduction of Heat ; — G. L. Roupell, M.D., Re- 

 port on Poisons ; — T. G. Bunt, Report on Discussions of Bristol Tides, under the 

 direction of the Rev. W. Whewell ; — D. Ross, Report on the Discussions of Leith 

 Tide Observations, under the direction of the Rev. W. Whewell ; — W. S. Harris, 

 upon the working of Whewell's Anemometer at Plymouth during the past year ;— 

 Report of a Committee appointed for the purpose of superintending the scientific 

 co-operation of the British Association in the System of Simultaneous Observations in 

 Terrestrial Magnetism and Meteorology; — Reports of Committees appointed to pro- 

 vide Meteorological Instruments for the use of M. Agassiz and Mr. M'Cord ; — Report of 

 a Committee appointed to superintend the Reduction of Meteorological Observations ; 

 — Report of a Committee for revising the Nomenclature of the Stars ;— Report of a 

 Committee for obtaining Instruments and Registers to record Shocks and Earthquakes 

 in Scotland and Ireland ; — Report of a Committee on the Preservation of Vegetative 

 Powers in Seeds ; — Dr. Hodgkin, on Inquiries into the Races of Man ; — Report of the 

 Committee appointed to report how far the Desiderata in our knowledge of the Con- 

 dition of the Upper Strata of the Atmosphere may be supplied by means of Ascents 

 in Balloons or otherwise, to ascertain the probable expense of such Experiments, and 

 to draw up Directions for Observers in such circumstances ; — R. Owen, Report on 

 British Fossil Reptiles ; — Reports on the Determination of the Mean Value of Rail- 

 way Constants ; — Dr. D. Lardner, Second and concluding Report on the Determi- 

 nation of the Mean Value of Railway Constants; — E.Woods, Report on Railway 

 Constants ; — Report of a Committee on the Construction of a Constant Indicator for 

 Steam Engines. 



Together with the Transactions of the Sections, Prof. Whewell's Address, and 

 Recommendations of the Association and its Committees. 



PROCEEDINGS op the TWELFTH MEETING, at Manchester, 



1842, Puhlishcd at 10s. 6d. 



Contents : — Report of the Committee appointed to conduct the co-operation of 

 the British Association in the System of Simultaneous Magnetical and Meteorological 

 Observations ; — Dr. J. Richardson, Report on the present State of the Ichthyology 

 of New Zealand; — W. S. Harris, Report on the Progress of Meteorological Observa- 

 tions at Plymouth ; — Second Report of a Committee appointed to make Experiments 

 on the Growth and Vitality of Seeds ; — C. Vignoles, Report of the Committee on 

 Railway Sections ; — Report of the Committee for the Preservation of Animal and 

 Vegetable Substances ; — Dr. Lyon Playfair, Abstract of Prof. Liebig's Report on 

 Organic Chemistrj' applied to Physiology and Pathology; — R. Owen, Report on the 

 British Fossil Mammalia, Part I. ; — R. Hunt, Researches on the Influence of Light on 

 the Germination of Seeds and the Growth of Plants ; — L. Agassiz, Report on the Fos- 

 sil Fishes of the Devonian System or Old Red Sandstone ; — W. Fairbairn, Appendix 

 to a Report on the Strength and other Properties of Cast Iron obtained from the Hot 

 and Cold Blast ;— D. Milne, Report of the Committee for Registering Shocks of Earth- 

 quakes in Great Britain ; — Report of a Committee on the construction of a Constant 

 Indicator for Steam-Engines, and for the determination of the Velocity of the Piston 

 of the Self-acting Engine at different periods of the Stroke ; — J. S. Russell, Report of 

 a Committee on the Form of Ships ; — Report of a Committee appointed ' to consider 

 of the Rules by which the Nomenclature of Zoology maybe established on a itniform 

 and permanent basis;' — Report of a Committee on the Vital Statistics of Large 

 Towns in Scotland; — Provisional Reports, and Notices of Progress in Special Re- 

 searches entrusted to Committees and Individuals. 



Together with the Transactions of the Sections. Lord Francis Egerton's Address, 

 and Recommendations of the Association and its Committees. 



