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brata;—C. J. B. Williams, M.D., Report of Experiments on the Physiology of the Lungs 
and Air-Tubes ;—Rev. J. S. Henslow, Report of the Committee on the Preservation 
of Animal and Vegetable Substances. 
Together with the Transactions of the Sections, Mr. Murchison and Major E. 
Sabine’s Address, and Recommendations of the Association and its Committees. 
PROCEEDINGS or tae ELEVENTH MEETING, at Plymouth, 
1841, Published at 13s. 6d, 
CoNTENTS :—Rev. P. Kelland, on the Present State of our Theoretical and Expe- 
rimental Knowledge of the Laws of Conduction of Heat ;—G. L. Roupell, M.D., Re- 
port on Poisons ;—T. G. Bunt, Report on Discussions of Bristol Tides, under the 
direction of the Rev. W. Whewell;—D. Ross, Report on the Discussions of Leith 
Tide Observations, under the direction of the Rev. W. Whewell;—W. S. Harris, 
upon the working of Whewell’s Anemometer at Plymouth during the past year ;— 
Report of a Committee appointed for the purpose of superintending the scientific 
co-operation of the British Association in the System of Simultaneous Observations in 
Terrestrial Magnetism and Meteorology ;—Reports of Committees appointed to pro- 
vide Meteorological Instruments for the use of M. Agassizand Mr. M‘Cord ;—Report of 
a Committee appointed to superintend the Reduction of Meteorological Observations ; 
—Report of a Committee for revising the Nomenclature of the Stars ;—Report of a 
Committee for obtaining Instruments and Registers to record Shocks and Earthquakes 
in Scotland and Ireland ;—Report of a Committee on the Preservation of Vegetative 
Powers in Seeds ;—Dr. Hodgkin, on Inquiries into the Races of Man;—Report of the 
Committee appointed to report how far the Desiderata in our knowledge of the Con- 
dition of the Upper Strata of the Atmosphere may be supplied by means of Ascents 
in Balloons or otherwise, to ascertain the probable expense of such Experiments, and 
to draw up Directions for Observers in such circumstances ;—R. Owen, Report on 
British Fossil Reptiles;—Reports on the Determination of the Mean Value of Rail- 
way Constants ;—Dr. D. Lardner, Second and concluding Report on the Determi- 
nation of the Mean Value of Railway Constants;—E. Woods, Report on Railway 
Constants ;—Report of a Committee on the Construction of a Constant Indicator for 
Steam Engines. 
Together with the Transactions of the Sections, Prof. Whewell’s Address, and 
Recommendations of the Association and its Committees, 
PROCEEDINGS or tars TWELFTH MEETING, at Manchester, 
1842, Published at 10s. 6d. 
CONTENTS :—Report of the Committee appointed to conduct the co-operation of 
the British Association in the System of Simultaneous Magnetical and Meteorological 
Observations ;—Dr. J. Richardson, Report on the present State of the Ichthyology 
of New Zealand ;—W. S. Harris, Report on the Progress of Meteorological Observa- 
tions at Plymouth ;—Second Report of a Committee appointed to make Experiments 
on the Growth and Vitality of Seeds;—C. Vignoles, Report of the Committee on 
Railway Sections ;—Report of the Committee for the Preservation of Animal and 
Vegetable Substances ;—Dr. Lyon Playfair, Abstract of Prof. Liebig’s Report on 
Organic Chemistry applied to Physiology and Pathology ;—R. Owen, Report on the 
British Fossil Mammalia, Part I. ;—R. Hunt, Researches on the Influence of Light on 
the Germination of Seeds and the Growth of Plants ;—L. Agassiz, Report on the Fos- 
sil Fishes of the Devonian System or Old Red Sandstone ;—W. Fairbairn, Appendix 
to a Report onthe Strength and other Properties of Cast Iron obtained from the Hot 
and Cold Blast ;— D. Milne, Report of the Committee for Registering Shocks of Earth- 
quakes in Great Britain ;—Report of a Committee on the construction of a Constant 
Indicator for Steam-Engines, and for the determination of the Velocity of the Piston 
of the Self-acting Engine at different periods of the Stroke ;—J. 8. Russell, Report of 
a Committee on the Form of Ships ;—Report of a Committee appointed ‘to consider 
of the Rules by which the Nomenclature of Zoology may be established on a uniform 
and permanent basis ;’—Report of a Committec on the Vital Statistics of Large 
Towns in Scotland ;—Provisional Reports, and Notices of Progress in Special Re- 
searches entrusted to Committees and Individuals. 
Together with the Transactions of the Sections, Lord Francis Egerton’s Address, 
and Recommendations of the Association and its Committees. 
