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PROCEEDINGS of the EIGHTH MEETING, at Newcastle, 1838, 

 Published at i 5s. 



Contents : — Rev. VV. Whewell, Account of a Level Line, measured from the Bristol Chan- 

 nel to the Bnglish Channel, by Mr. Bunt; — Report on the Discussions of Tides, prepared 

 under the direction of the Rev. W. Whewell; — \V. S. Harris, Account of the Progress and 

 Slate of the Meteoroloj^ical Observations at Plymouth; — Major ['.. Sabine, on the Magnetic 

 Isoclinal and Isodynamic Lines in the British Islands; — D. Lardner, LL.D., on the Determi- 

 nation of the Mean Numerical Values of Railway Constants; — R. Mallet, First Report upon 

 Experiments upon the Action of Sea and River Water upon Cast and Wrought Iron ; — R. 

 Mallet, on the .-Vction of a Heat of 212° Fahr., when long continued, on Inorganic and Organic 

 Substances. 



Together with llie Transactions of the Sections, Mr. Murchison's Address, and Recommen- 

 dations of the Association and its Committees. 



^ PROCEEDINGS of the NINTH MEETING, at Birmingham, 1839, 

 Published at 1 3s. 6d. 



CoNTKNTs: — Rev. B. Powell, Report on the Present State of our Knowledge of Refractive 

 Indices, for the Standard Rays of the Solar Spectrum in ditferent media ; — Report on the Ap- 

 plication (if the Sum assigned for Tide Cal< ulations to Rev. W. Whe«ell, in a Letter from T. G. 

 Bunt, lisq. ; — II. L. I'attinson, on some Galvnnic Experiments to determine the Existence or 

 Non-Existence of Electrical Currents among Stratified Rocks, particularly those of the Moun- 

 tain Limestone formation, constituting the Lead Measures of Alton Moor; — Sir D. Brewster, 

 Reports respecting the two series of Hourly Meteorological Observations kept in Scotland ; — 

 Report on the subject of a series of Resolutions adopted by the British Association at their 

 Meeting in August 1838, at Newcastle ;—R. Owen, Report on British Fossil Reptiles; — E. 

 Forbes, Report on the Distribution of Pulmoniferous .Mollusca in the British Isles; — W. S. 

 Harris, I'hird Report on the Progress of the Hourly Meteorological Register at Plymouth 

 Dockyard. 



Together with the Transactions of the Sections, Rev. VV. Vernon Harcourt's Address, and 

 Recommendations of the Association and its Committees. 



PROCEEDINGS of the TENTH MEETING, at Glasgow, 1840, 

 Published at \as. 



Contents : — Rev. B. Powell, Report on the recent Progress of discovery relative to Radiant 

 Heat, supplemeniary to a former Report on the same subject inserted in the first volume of the 

 Reports of the British Association for the Advancement of Science; — J. D. Forbes, Supple- 

 mentary Report on Meteorology ; — VV. S. Harris, Report on Prof. WhewcU's Anemometer, 

 now in operation at Plymoutli ; — Report on " 'I he Motion and Sounds of the Heart," by the 

 London Committee of the British Association, for 1839-40 ;— Prof. SchiJnbein, an Account of 

 Researches in Electro-Chemistry ; — H. Mallet, Second Report upon the Action of Air and 

 Water, whether fresh or salt, clear or foul, and at various temperatures, upon Cast Iron, 

 Wrought Iron ai\d Steel ; — R. W. Fox, Report on some Observations on Subterranean Tem- 

 perature ; — A. F. Osier, Report on the Observations recorded during the years 1837, 1838, 1839, 

 and 1840, by the Self-registering Anemometer erected at the Philosophical Institution, Bir- 

 mingham ; — Sir D. Brewster, Report respecting the two Series of Hourly Meteorological Ob- 

 servations kept at Inverness and Kingussie, from Nov. 1st, 1838 to Nov. 1st, 1839; — W. 

 Thompson, Report on the Fauna of Ireland : Div. Vertehruta \^C. J. B. Williams, M.D., 

 Report of Experiments on the Physiology of the Lungs and Air-Tubes ;^Rev. J. S. Hen«low, 

 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 Rtcoromendations of the Association and its Committees. 



PROCEEDINGS of the ELEVENTH MEETING, at Plymouth, 



1841, Published at 13s. 6d. 



Contents: — Rev. P. Kelland, on the Present state of our Theoretical and Experimental 

 Knowledge of the Laws of Conduction of Heat ;—G. L. Roupell, M.D., Report on Poisons; — 

 T. G. Bunt, Report on Discussions of Bristol Tides, under the direction of the Rev. VV. Whe\yell; 

 — D. Ross, Report on the Discussions of Leith Tide Observations, under the direction of the 

 Rev. W. Whewell; — W. S. Harris, upon the woiking of Whewell's Anemometer at Plymouth 

 during the past year ; — Report of a Committee appointed for the purpose of superintend- 

 ing the scientific cooperation of the British Association in the System of Simultaneous Obser- 

 vations in Terrestrial Magnetism and Meteorology ^— Reports of Committees appointed to pro- 

 vide Meteorological Instruments for the use of M. .Agjissiz and Mr. M'Cord ; — Report of a Com- 



