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the Committee on Balloon Ascents; — Prof. W. Thomson, Report of Committee appointed to 

 prepare a Self-recording Atmospheric Electrometer for Kew, and Portable Apparatus for ob- 

 serving Atmospheric Electricity ; — William Fairbairn, Experiments to determine the Effect of 

 Vibratory Action and long-continued Changes of Load upon VVrought-iron Girders ; — R. P. 

 Greg, Catalogue of Meteorites and Fireballs, from a.d. 2 to a.d. 1860 ; — Prof. H. J. S. Smith, 

 Report on the Theory of Numbers, Part II.; — Vice-Admiral Moorsom, on the Performance of 

 Steam- vessels, the Functions of the Screw, and the Relations of its Diameter and Pitch to the 

 Form of the Vessel ; — Rev. \V. V, Harcourt, Report on the Effects of long-continued Heat, 

 illustrative of Geological Phenomena ; — Second Report of the Committee on Steamship Per- 

 formance ; — Interim Report on the Gauging of Water by Triangular Notches ; — List of the 

 British Marine Invertebrate Fauna. 



Together with the Transactions of the Sections, Lord Wrottesley's Address, and Recom- 

 mendations of the Association and its Committees. 



PROCEEDINGS of the THIRTY-FIRST MEETING, at Manches- 

 ter, September 1861, Published at £1. 



Contents: — James Glaisher, Report on Observations of Luminous Meteors; — Dr. E. 

 Smith, Report on the Action of Prison Diet and Discipline on the Bodily Functions of Pri- 

 soners, Part I. ; — Charles Atherton, on Freight as affected by Differences in the Dynamic 

 Properties of Steamships ; — Warren De la Rue, Report on the Progress of Celestial Photo, 

 graphy since the Aberdeen Meeting; — B. Stewart, on the Theory of Exchanges, and its re- 

 cent extension; — Drs. E. Schunck, R. Angus Smith, and H. E. Roscoe, on the Recent Pro- 

 gress and Present Condition of Manufacturing Chemistry in the Souih Lancashire District; — 

 Dr. J. Hunt, on Ethno-Climatology ; or, the Acclimatization of Man ; — Prof. J. Thomson, on 

 Experiments on the Gauging of Water by Triangular Notches ; — Dr. A. Voelcker, Report on 

 Field Experiments and Laboratory Researches on the Constituents of Manures essential to 

 cultivated Crops ; — Prof. H. Hennessy, Provisional Report on the Present State of our Know- 

 ledge respecting the Transmission of Sound-signals during Fogs at Sea; — Dr. P. L. Sclater 

 and F. von Hochstetler, Report on the Present State of our Knowledge of the Birds of the 

 Genus Apteryx living in New Zealand ; — J. G. Jeffreys, Report of the Results of Deep-sea 

 Dredging in Zetland, with a Notice of several Species of Mollusca new to Science or to the 

 British Isles; — Prof J. Phillips, Contributions to a Report on the Physical Aspect of the 

 Moon ; — W. R. Birt, Contribution to a Report on the Physical Aspect of the Moon ; — Dr. 

 CoUingwood and Mr. Byerley, Preliminary Report of the Dredging Committe of the Mersey 

 and Dee ; — Third Report of the Committee on Steamship Performance ; — J. G. Jeffreys, 

 Preliminary Report on the Best Mode of preventing the Ravages of Teredo and other Animals 

 in our Ships and Harbours ; — R. Mallet, Report on the Experiments made at Holyhead to 

 ascertain the Transit-Velocity of Waves, analogous to Earthquake Waves, through the local 

 Rock Formations ; — T. Dobson, on the Explosions in British Coal-Mines during the year 1859; 

 — J. Oldham, Continuation of Report on Steam Navigation at Hull ; — Professor G. Dickie, 

 Brief Summary of a Report on the Flora of the North of Ireland ; — Professor Owen, on the 

 Psychical and Physical Characters of tlie Mincopies, or Natives of the Andaman Islands, and 

 on the Relations thereby indicated to other Races of Mankind ; — Colonel Sykes, Report of the 

 Balloon Committee; — Major-General Sabine, Report on the Repetition of the Magnetic Sur- 

 vey of England ; — Interim Report of the Committee for Dredging on the North and East 

 Coasts of Scotland ; — W. Fairbairn, on the Resistance of Iron Plates to Statical Pressure and 

 the Force of Impact by Projectiles at High Velocities ; — W. Fairbairn, Continuation of Report 

 to determine the effect of Vibratory Action and long-continued Changes of Load upon 

 Wrought-Iron Girders ; — Report of the Committee on the Law of Patents ; — Prof. H. J. S. 

 Smith, Report on the Theory of Numbers, Part III. 



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

 dations of the Association and its Committees. 



PROCEEDINGS of the THIRTY-SECOND MEETING, at Cam- 

 bridge, October 1862, Published at £\. 



Contents : — James Glaisher, Report on Observations of Luminous Meteors, 1861-62 ; — 

 G. B. Airy, on the Strains in the Interior of Beams ; — Archibald Smith and F. J. Evans, 

 Report on the three Reports of the Liverpool Compass Committee ; — Report on Tidal Ob- 

 servations on the Humber ; — T. Aston, on Rifled Guns and Projectiles adapted for Attacking 



