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— T. Dobson, on the Explosions in British Coal-Mines during the year 1859 ; — J. Old- 

 ham, Continuation of Eeport on Steam Navigation at Hull ;— Prof. G. Dickie, Brief 

 Summary of a Eeport on the Flora of the^North of Ireland ;— Prof . Owen, on the 

 • Psychical and Physical Characters of the Mincopies, or Natives of the Andaman 

 Islands, and on the Relations thereby indicated to other Paces of Mankind ;— Colonel 

 Sykes, Eeport of the Balloon Committee ;— Major-General Sabine, Report on the Re- 

 petition of the Magnetic Survey of England ;— Interim Report of the Committee for 

 Dredging on the North and East Coasts of Scotland ;— W. Fairbairn, on the Resist- 

 ance of Iron Plates to Statical Pressure and the Force of Impact by Projectiles at 

 High Velocities ;— W. Fairbairn, Continuation of Report to determine the effect of 

 Vibratory Action and long-continued Changes of Load upon Wrought-Iron Girders ; 

 —Report of the Committee on the Law of Patents;— Prof. H. J. S. Smith, Report on 

 the Theory of Numbers, Part HI. 



Together with the Transactions of the Sections, Mr. Fairbairn 's Address, and Re- 

 commendations of the Association and its Committees. 



PEOCEEDINGS of the THIRTY-SECOXD MEETING at Cam- 

 bridge, October 1862, Published at £1. 



Contents :— James Glaisher, Report on Observations of Luminous Meteors, 1861- 

 62 ;— G. B. Airy, on the Strains in the Interior of Beams ;— Archibald Smith and F. 

 J. Evans, Report on the three Reports of the Liverpool Compass Committee ; — Report 

 on Tidal Observations on the Humber ;— T. Aston, on Rifled Guns and Projectiles 

 adapted for Attacking Armour-plate Defences ;— Extracts, relating to the Observa- 

 tory at Kew, from a Report presented to the Portuguese Government, by Dr. J. A. 

 de Souza ;— H. T. Mennell, Report on the Dredging "of the Northumberland Coast 

 and Dogger Bank ;— Dr. Cuthbert Collingwood, Report upon the best means of ad- 

 vancing Science through the agency of the Mercantile Marine ;— Messrs. Williamson, 

 "VVheatstone, Thomson, Miller, Matthiessen, and Jenkin, Provisional Report on Stan- 

 dards of Electrical Resistance ;— Preliminary Report of the Committee for investiga- 

 ting the Chemical and Mineralogical Composition of the Granites of Donegal ; Prof. 



H. Hennessy, on the Vertical Movements of the Atmosphere considered in connec- 

 tion with Storms and Changes of Weather ;— Report of Committee on the application 

 of Gauss's General Theory of Terrestrial Jlagnetism to the Magnetic Variations ;— 

 Fleeming Jenkin, on Thermo-electric Ciu-rents in Circuits of one Metal ;— W. Fair- 

 bairn, on the Mechanical Properties of Iron Projectiles at High Velocities ;— A. Cay- 

 ley, Eeport on the Progress of the Solution of certain Special Problems of Dynamics; 

 —Prof. G. G. Stokes, Eeport on Double Eef raction ;— Fourth Eeport of the Committee 

 on Steamship Performance ;— G. J. Symons, on the Fall of Eain in the British Isles 

 m 1860 and 1861 ;— J. Ball, on Thermometric Observations in the Alps;— J. G. 

 Jeffreys, Eeport of the Committee for Dredging on the North and East Coasts of 

 Scotland ;— Eeport of the Committee on Technical and Scientific Evidence in Courts 

 of Law;— James Glaisher, Account of Eight Balloon Ascents in 1862 ; — Prof. H. J. S. 

 Smith, Eeport on the Theory of Numbers, Part IV. 



Together with the Transactions of the Sections, the Eev.Prof. E. Willis's Address 

 and Recommendations of the Association and its Committees. ' 



PEOCBEDINGS of the THIRTY-THIRD MEETING, at New- 

 castle-upon-Tyne, August and September 1863, Published at £1 5s. 



Contents :— Report of the Committee on the Application of Gun-cotton to War- 

 like Purposes ;— A. Matthiessen, Report on the Chemical Nature of Alloys ;— Report 

 of the Committee on the Chemical and Mineralogical Constitution of the Granites of 

 Donegal, and on the Rocks associated with them ;— J. G. Jeffreys, Report of the Com- 

 mittee appointed for exploring the Coasts of Shetland by means of the Dredge ;— 

 G. D. Gibb, Report on the Physiological Effects of the Bromide of Ammonium ;— C. K. 

 Aken, on the Transmutation of Spectral Rays, Part I. ;— Dr. Robinson, Report of the 

 Committee on Fog Signals ;— Report of the Committee on Standards of Electrical 

 Resistance;— E. Smith, Abstract of Report by the Indian Government on the Foods 



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