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the Analytical Forms called Trees;— Report of the Committee on Mathematical 

 Tables ; — Report of the Committee on Mathematical Notation and Printing ;— Second 

 Eeport of the Committee for investigating Intestinal Secretion ; — Third Report of 

 the Sub-Wealden Exploration Committee. 



Together with the Transactions of the Sections, Sir John Hawkshaw's Address, 

 and Recommendations of the Association and its Committees. 



PROCEEDINGS of the FORTY-SIXTH MEETING, at Glasgow, 

 September 1876, Published at £1 5s. 



Contents: — Twelfth Report on Kent's Cavern; — Eeport on Improving the 

 Methods of Instruction in Elementary Geometry ;— Results of a Comparison of the 

 British-Association Units of Electrical Resistance ; — Third Report on the Thermal 

 Conductivities of certain Rocks ; — Report of the Committee on the practicability of 

 adopting a Common Measure of Value in the Assessment of Direct Taxation ;^ 

 Report of the Committee for testing experimentally Ohm's Law ; — Report of the 

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

 Indigenous Animals ; — Report of the Committee on the Effect of Propellers on the 

 Steering of Vessels ; — On the Investigation of the Steering Qualities of Ships ; — 

 Seventh Report on Earthquakes in Scotland ; — Eeport on the present state of our 

 Knowledge of the Crustacea; — Second Report of the Committee for investigating 

 the Circulation of the Underground Waters in the Now Red Sandstone and Permian 

 Formations of England ; — Fom-th Report of the Committee on the Erratic Blocks of 

 England and Wales, &c. ; — Fourth Report of the Committee on the Exploration of 

 the Settle Caves (Victoria Cave) ; — Eeport on Observations of Luminous Meteors, 

 1 875-76 ;— Report on tlie Rainfall of the British Isles, 1875-76 ;— Ninth Report on 

 Underground Temperature ; — Nitrous Oxide in the Gaseous and Liquid States ; — 

 Eighth Report on the Treatment and Utilization of Sewage ; — Improved Investiga- 

 tions on the Flow of Water through Orifices, with Objections to the modes of treat- 

 ment commonly adopted ; — Report of the Anthropometric Committee ; — On Cyclone 

 and Rainfall Periodicities in connexion with the Sun-spot Periodicity ; — Report of 

 the Committee for determining the Mechanical Equivalent of Heat ; — Report of the 

 Committee on Tidal Observations ; — Third Report of the Committee on the Condi- 

 tions of Intestinal Secretion and Movement ; — Report of the Committee for collect- 

 ing and suggesting subjects for Chemical Research. 



Togetlicr with the Transactions of the Sections, Dr. T. Andrews's Address, and 

 Eecommendations of tlic Association and its Committees. 



PROCEEDINGS op the FORTY-SEVENTH MEETING, at Ply- 

 mouth, August 1877, Puhlishecl at £1 4s. 



Contents: — Thirteenth Eeport on Kent's Cavern; — Second and Tliird Eeports 

 on the Methods emplo3'ed in the estimation of Potasli and Pliosphoric Acid in Com- 

 mercial Products ; — Eeport on the present state of our Knowledge of the Crustacea 

 (Part III.) ;— Third Eeport on the Circulation of the Underground Waters in the New 

 Red Sandstone and Permian Formations of England ; — Fifth Eeport on the Erratic 

 Blocks of England, Wales, and Ireland; — Fourth Eeport on the Thermal Conducti- 

 vities of certain Eocks ; — Eeport on Observations of Luminous Meteors, 1876-77 ; — 

 Tenth Eeport on Underground Temperature : — Eeport on the Effect of Propellers on 

 the Steering of Vessels ; — Eeport on the possibility of establishing a ' Close Time ' 

 for tlie Protection of Indigenous Animals ; — Eeport on some Double Compounds of 

 Nickel and Cobalt; — Fifth Eeport on the Exploration of the Settle Caves (Victoria 

 Cave);^Eeport on the Datum Level of the Ordnance Survey of Great Britain; — 

 Report on the Zoological Station at Naples ;— Eeport of the Anthropometric Com- 

 mittee ; — Report on the Conditions under which Liquid Carbonic Acid exists in 

 Rocks and Minerals. 



Together with the Transactions of the Sections, Prof. Allen Thomson's Address, 

 and Recommendations of the Association and its Committees. 



