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Account of Nine Balloon Ascents made in 1863 and 1864; — J. G. Jeffreys, Further Report 

 on Shetland Dredgings ; — Report of the Committee on the Distrihution of the Organic 

 Remains of the North Staffordshire Coal-field; — Report of the Committee on Standards of 

 Electrical Resistance; — G. J. Symons, on the Fall of Rain in the British Isles in 1862 and 

 1863 ; — W. Fairbairn, Preliminary Investigation of the Mechanical Properties of the pro- 

 posed Atlantic Cable. 



Together with the Transactions of the Sections, Sir Charles Lyell's Address, and Recom- 

 mendations of the Association and its Committees. 



PROCEEDINGS of the THIRTY-FIFTH MEETING, at Birming- 

 ham, September 1865, Published at £1 5s. 



Contents : — J. G. Jeflreys, Report on Dredging among the Channel Isles ; — F. Buckland, 

 Report on the Cultivation of Oysters by Natural and Artificial Methods ; — Report of the 

 Committee for exploring Kent's Cavern ; — Report of the Committee on Zoological Nomen- 

 clature; — Report on the Distribution of the Organic Remains of the North Staffordshire 

 Coal-field; — Report on the Marine Fauna and Flora of the South Coast of Devon and Corn- 

 wall ; — Interim Report on the Resistance of Water to Floating and Immersed Bodies ; — Re- 

 port on Observations of Luminous Meteors ; — Report on Dredging on the Coast of Aberdeen- 

 shire; — J. Glaisher, Account of Three Walloon Ascents ; — Interim Report on the Transmis- 

 sion of Sound under Water ; — G. J. Symons, on the Rainfall of the British Isles ;^W. Fair- 

 bairn, on the Strength of Materials considered in relation to the Construction of Iron Ships ; 

 — Report of the Gun-Cotton Committee ; — A. F. Osier, on the Horary and Diurnal Variations 

 in the Direction and Motion of the Air at Wrottesley, Liverpool, and Birmingham ; — B. W. 

 Richardson, Second Report on the Physiological Action of certain of the Amyl Compounds ; 

 — Report on further Researches in the Lingula-flags of South Wales ; — Report of the Lunar 

 Committee for Mapping the Surface of the Moon ; — Report on Standards of Electrical Re- 

 sistance; — Report of the Committee appointed to communicate with the Russian Govern- 

 ment respecting Magnetical Observations at Tiflis ; — Appendix to Report on the Distribution 

 of the Vertebrate Remains from the North Staffordshire Coal-field; — M. Woodward, First 

 Report on the Structure and Classification of the Fossil Crustacea ; — H. J. S. Smith, Report 

 on the Theory of Numbers, Part VI. ; — Report on the best means of providing for a Unifor- 

 mity of Weights and Measures, with reference to the interests of Science ; — A. G. Findlay, 

 on the Bed of the Ocean ; — Professor A. W. Williamson, on the Composition of Gases 

 evolved by the Bath Spring called King's Bath. 



Together with the Transactions of the Sections, Professor Phillips's Address, and Recom- 

 mendations of the Association and its Committees. 



Printed bv Taylor and Francis, Red Lion Court, Fleet Street. 



