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PROCEEDINGS op the FORTY-FOURTH MEETING, at Belfast, 

 August 1874, Published at £1 5s. 



Contents :— Tenth Eeport on Kent's Cavern ;—Eeport for investigating the 

 Chemical Constitution and Optical Properties of Essential Oils ;— Second Keport oif 

 the Sub-Wealden Exploration Committee ;— On the Recent Progress and Present 

 State of Systematic Botany ; — Report of the Committee for investigating the Nature 

 of Intestinal Secretion ;— Report of the Committee on the Teaching of Physics in 

 Schools ;— Preliminary Report for investigating Isomeric Cresols and their Deriva- 

 tives ; — Third Report of the Committee for collecting Fossils from localities in< 

 North-western Scotland; — Report on the Rainfall of the British Isles ; — On the Bel- 

 fast Harbour ; — Report of Inquiry into the Method of making Gold-assays ; — Eeport 

 of a Committee on Experiments to determine the Thermal Conductivities of certain^ 

 Rocks ;— Second Report on the Exploration of the Settle Caves ;— On the Industrial 

 uses of the Upper Bann River ; — Report of the Committee on the Structure and 

 Classification of the Labyrinthodonts ; — Second Report of the Committee for record- 

 ing the position, height above the sea, lithological characters, size, and origin of the 

 Erratic Blocks of England and Wales, &c. ; — Sixth Report on the Treatment and 

 Utilization of Sewage ; — Report on the Anthropological Notes and Queries for th& 

 use of Travellers ;— On Cyclone and Rainfall Periodicities ; — Fifth Report on Earth- 

 quakes in Scotland ; — Report of the Committee appointed to prepare and print 

 Tables of Wave-numbers ; — Report of the Committee for testing the new Pyrometer 

 of Mr. Siemens ; — Report to the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty on Experi- 

 ments for the Determination of the Frictional Resistance of Water on a Surface- 

 to. ; — Second Report for the Selection and Nomenclature of Dynamical and Elec- 

 trical Units ; — On Instruments for measuring the Speed of Ships ; — Report of the 

 Committee on the possibility of establishing a ' Close Time ' for the Protection of 

 Indigenous Animals ; — Report of the Committee to inquire into the economic eifects 

 of Combinations of Labourers and Capitalists ; — Preliminary Report on Dredging on 

 the Coasts of Durham and North Yorkshire ;— Report on Luminous Meteors ; — Re- 

 port on the best means of providing for a Uniformity of Weights and Measures. 



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

 Recommendations of the Association and its Committees. 



PROCEEDINGS of the FORTY-FIFTH MEETING, at Bristol, 

 August 1875, Puhlishecl at £1 5s. 



Contents :— Eleventh Eeport on Kent's Cavern ; — Seventh Report on Under- 

 ground Temperature; — Eeport on the Zoological Station at Naples; — Eeport of a 

 Committee appointed to inquire into the Methods employed in the Estimation of 

 Potash and Phosphoric Acid in Commercial Products ; — Eeport on the present state 

 of our Knowledge of the Crustacea; — Second Report on the Thermal Conduc- 

 tivities of certain Eocks ;— Preliminary Eeport of the Committee for extending the 

 Observations on the Specific Volumes of Liquids ;— Sixth Report on Earthquakes 

 in Scotland ; — Seventh Report on the Treatment and Utilization of Sewage ; — Re- 

 port of the Committee for furthering the Palestine Explorations ;— Third Report of 

 the Committee for recording the position, height above the sea, lithological 

 characters, size, and origin of the Erratic Blocks of England and Wales, &c. ; — 

 Eeport of the Eainfall Committee ;— Report of the Committee for investigating 

 Isomeric Cresols and their Derivatives ; — Report of the Committee for investigating 

 the Circulation of the Underground Waters in the New Red Sandstone and Permian- 

 Formations of England ; — On the Steering of Screw-Steamers ; — Second Report cf 

 the Committee on Combinations of Capital and Labour ; — Report on the Method of 

 making Gold-assays; — Eightli Report on Underground Temperature ; —Tides in the 

 River Mersey ; — Sixth Eeport of the Committee on the Structure of Carboniferous- 

 Corals ; — Eeport of the Committee appointed to explore the Settle Caves ; — On 

 the Eiver Avon (Bristol), its Drainage-Area, &c. ; — Eeport of the Committee on 

 the possibility of establishing a ' Close Time ' for the Protection of Indigenous 

 Animals ; — Eeport of the Committee appointed to superintend the Publication of 

 the Monthly Eeports of the Progress of Chemistry ;— Report on Dredging ofl: the- 

 Coasts of Durham and North Yorkshire in 1874 ; — Report on Luminous Meteors ; — On 



