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PROCEEDINGS or the FORTIETH MEETING, at Liverpool, Septem- 

 ber 1870, Published at 18s. 



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

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

 the River Onny ; — Report on the Chemical Nature of Cast Iron ; — Report on the practica- 

 bility of establishing " A Close Time" for the protection of Indigenous Animals ; — Report 

 on Standards of Electrical Resistance ; — Sixth Report on Kent's Cavern ; — Third Report on 

 Underground Temperature ; — Second Report of the Committee appointed to get cut and 

 prepared Sections of Mountain-Limestone Corals ; — Second Report on the Stability, Pro- 

 pulsion, and Sea-going Qualities of Ships; — Report on Earthquakes in Scotland; — Report 

 on the Treatment and Utilization of Sewage ; — Report on Observations of Luminous Me- 

 teors, 1869-70; — Report on Recent Progress in Elliptic and Hyperelliptic Functions; — 

 Report on Tidal Observations ; — On a new Steam-power Meter ; — Report on the Action of 

 the Methyl and Allied Series; — Report of the Rainfall Committee; — Report on the Heat 

 generated in the Blood in the process of Arterialization ; — Report on the best means of 

 providing for Uniformity of Weights and Measures. 



Together with the Transactions of the Sections, Prof. Huxley's Adflress, and Recommen- 

 dations of the Association and its Committees. 



Printed Ijj Taylor and Franc:?, Kcd yon Cyuft, Fleet Street. 



