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PROCEEDINGS of the THIRTY-EIGHTH MEETING, at Nor- 

 wicli, August 1868, Fuhlished at £\ 5s. 



Contents : — Eeport of the Lunar Committee — Fourth Eeport on Kent's Cavern, 

 Devonshire ; — On Puddling Iron ; — Fourtli Report on the Structure and Classifica- 

 tion of the Fossil Crustacea ; — Eeport on British Fossil Corals ; — Eeport on Spectro- 

 scopic Investigations of Animal Substances ; — Eeport of Steamship Performance 

 Committee ; — Spectrum Analysis of the Heavenly Bodies ; — On Stellar Spectro- 

 metry ; — Eeport on the Physiological Action of the Methyl and allied Compounds ; — 

 Eeport on the Action of Mercury on the Biliary Secretion ; — Last Eeport on Dredg- 

 ing among the Shetland Isles ; — Eeports on the Crustacea, &c., and on the Annelida 

 and Foraminifera from the Shetland Dredgings ; — Eeport on the Chemical Nature of 

 Cast Iron, Part I. ; — Interim Eeport on the Safety of Merchant Ships and their 

 Passengers ; — Eeport on Observations of Luminous Meteors ; — Preliminary Eeport 

 on Mineral Veins containing Organic Eemains ; — Eeport on the Desirability of 

 Explorations between India and China; — Eeport of Eainfall Committee; — Ee- 

 port on Synthetical Eesearches on Organic Acids^- — Eeport on Uniformity of Weights 

 and Measures ; — Eeport of the Committee on Tidal Observations ; — Eejjort of the 

 Committee on Underground Temperature ; — Changes of the Moon's Surface ; — Ee- 

 port on Polj'atomic Cyanides. 



Together with the Transactions of the Sections, Dr. Hooker's Address, and Eecom- 

 mendations of the Association and its Committees. 



PROCEEDINGS of the THIRTY-NINTH MEETING, at Exeter, 

 August 1869, Published at £1 2s. 



Contents : — Eeport on the Plant-beds of North Greenland ; — ^Ecport on the 

 existing knowledge on the Stability, Propulsion, and Seagoing qualities of Ships ; 

 — Eeport on Steam-boiler Explosions ; — Preliminary Eeport on the Determination 

 of the Gases existing in Solution in Well-waters ; — The Pressme of Taxation on 

 Eeal Property ; — On the Chemical Eeactions of Light discovered by Prof. Tyndall ; — 

 On Fossils obtained at Kiltorkan Quarry, co. Kilkenny ; — Eeport of the Lunar Com- 

 mittee ; — Eeport on the Chemical Nature of Cast Iron ; — Eeport on the Marine Fauna 

 and Flora of the South Coast of Devon and Cornwall ; — Eeport on the Practicability 

 of establishing a ' Close Time ' for the Protection of Indigenous Animals ; — ExiJeri* 

 mental Eesearches on the Mechanical Properties of Steel; — Second Eeport on 

 British Fossil Corals; — Eeport of the Committee appointed to get cut and prepared 

 Sections of Mountain-Limestone Corals for Photographing ; — Eeport on the Eate of 

 Increase of Underground Temperature ; — Fifth Report on Kent's Cavern, Devon- 

 shire ; — Eeport on the Connexion between Chemical Constitution and Physiological 

 Action; — On Emission, Absorption, and Eeflection of Obscure Heat; — Eeport on 

 Observations of Luminous Meteors ; — Eeport on Uniformity of Weights and Measures ; 

 — Eeport on the Treatment and Utilization of Sewage ; — Supplement to Second 

 Eeport of the Steamship-Performance Committee ; — Eeport on Eecent Progress in 

 Elliptic and Hyperelliptic Functions ; — Eeport on Mineral Veins in Carboniferous 

 Ximestone and their Organic Contents ; — Notes on the Foraminifera of Mineral 

 Veins and the Adjacent Strata ; — Report of the Eainfall Committee ; — Interim Ee- 

 port on the Laws of the Flow and Action of Water containing Solid Matter in 

 Suspension ; — Interim Eeport on Agricultural Machinery ; — Eeport on the Physio- 

 logical Action of Methyl and Allied Series ; — On the Intiuence of Form considered 

 in Eelation to the Strength of Eailwa3'-axles and other portions of Machinery sub- 

 jected to Eapid Alterations of Strain; — On the Penetration of Armour-plates with 

 Long Shells of Large Capacity tired obliquely; — Eeport on Standards of Electrical 

 Eesistance. 



Together with the Transactions of the Sections, Prof. Stokes's Address, and Ee- 

 commendations of the Association and its Committees. 



PROCEEDINGS of the FORTIETH MEETING, at Liverpool, 

 September 1870, Published at 18s. 



Contents : — Eeport on Steam-boiler Explosions ; — Eeport of the Committee on 

 the Haematite Iron-ores of Great Britain and Ireland ; — Eeport on the Sedimentary 



