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PROCEEDINGS of the THIRTEENTH 3»IEETING, at Cork, 

 1848, Published at 12s. 



Contents :— Robert Mallet, Third Report upon the Action of Air and Water, 

 whether fresh or salt, clear or foul, and at Various Temperatures, upon Cast Iron, 

 Wrought Iron, and Steel ; — Report of the Committee appointed to conduct the Co- 

 operation of the British Association in the System of Simultaneous Magnetical and 

 Meteorological Observations ; — Sir J. F. W. Herschel, Bart., Report of the Committee 

 appointedfor the Reduction of Meteorological Observations ; — Report of the Com- 

 mittee appointed for Experiments on Steam-Engines ; — Report of the Committee ap- 

 pointed to continue their Experiments on the Vitality of Seeds ; — J. S. Russell, Report 

 of a Series of Observations on the Tides of the Frith of Forth and the East Coast of 

 Scotland ;— J. S. Russell, Notice of a Report of the Committee on the Form of Ships ; 

 —J. Blake, Report on the Physiological Action of Medicines ;— Report of the Com- 

 mittee on Zoological Nomenclature ; — Report of the Committee for Registering the 

 Shocks of Earthquakes, and making such Meteorological Observations as may appear 

 to them desirable ; — Report of the Committee for conducting Experiments with Cap- 

 tive Balloons ; — Prof. Wheatstone, Appendix to the Report; — Report of the Com- 

 mittee for the Translation and Publication of Foreign Scientific Memoirs ; — C. W. 

 Peach, on the Habits of the Marine Testacea ;— E. Forbes, Report on the MoUusca 

 and Radiataof the Mgean Sea, and on their distribution, considered as bearing on 

 Geology ;— L. Agassiz, Synoptical Table of British Fossil Fishes, arranged in the 

 order of the Geological Formations ;— R. Owen, Report on the British Fossil Mam- 

 malia, Part II. ; — E. W. Binney, Report on the excavation made at the junction of 

 the Lower New Red Sandstone with the Coal Measures at Collyhurst ; — W. Thomp- 

 son, Report on the Fauna of Ireland: Div. Invericbrata ; — Provisional Reports, and 

 Notices of Progress in Special Researches entrusted to Committees and Individuals. 



Together with the Transactions of the Sections, the Earl of Rosse's Address, and 

 Recommendations of the Association and its Committees. 



PROCEEDINGS of the FOURTEENTH MEETING, at York, 1844, 

 Published at £\. 



Contents : — W. B. Carpenter, on the Microscopic Structure of Shells ; — J. Alder 

 and A. Hancock, Report on the British Nudibranchiate Mollusca; — R. Hunt, 

 Researches on the Influence of Light on the Germination of Seeds and the Growth 

 of Plants ; — Report of a Committee appointed by the British Association in 1840, 

 for revising the Nomenclature of the Stars ; —Lt.- Col. Sabine, on the Meteorologj- 

 of Toronto in Canada ; — J. Blackwall, Report on some recent researches into the 

 Structure, Functions, and Economy of the Araneidea made in Great Britain ; — Earl 

 of Rosse, on the Construction of large Reflecting Telescopes; — Rev. W. V. Harcourt, 

 Report on a Gas-furnace for Experiments on Vitrifaction and other Applications of 

 High Heat in the Laboratory ;— Report of the Committee for Registering Earth- 

 quake Shocks in Scotland ; — Report of a Committee for Experiments on Steam- 

 Engines; — Report of the Committee to investigate the Varieties of the Human 

 Race ; — Fourth Report of a Committee appointed to continue their Experiments on 

 the Vitality of Seeds ; — W. Fairbairn, on the Consumption of Fuel and the Preven- 

 tion of Smoke ; — F. Ronalds, Report concerning the Observatory of the British 

 Association at Kew ; — Sixth Report of the Committee aj^pointed to conduct the 

 Co-operation of the I5ritish Association in the System of Simultaneous Magnetical 

 and Meteorological Observations ; — Prof. Forchhammer on the influence of Fucoidal 

 Plants upon the Formations of the Earth, on Metamorphism in general, and par- 

 ticularly the Metamorphosis of the Scandinavian Alum Slate ; — H. E. Strickland, 

 Report on the Recent Progress and Present State of Ornithology ; — T. Oldham, 

 Report of Committee appointed to conduct Observations on Subterranean Tempera- 

 ture in Ireland; — Prof. Owen, Report on the Extinct JIammals of Australia, and 

 descriptions of certain Fossils indicative of the former existence in that continent 

 of large IMarsupial Representatives of the Order Pachydermata ; — W. S. Harris, 

 Report on the working of Whewell and Osier's Anemometers at Plymouth, for the 

 years 1841, 1842, 1843 ;^W. R. Birt, Report on Atmospheric Waves; — L. Agassiz, 

 Rapport sur les Poissons Fossiles de I'Argile de Londres, with translation ; — J. S. 



