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First Report of the Committee for exploring Kent's Cavern, Devonshire. 

 The Committee consisting of Sir Charles Lyell, Bart., Professor 

 Phillips, Sir John Lubbock, Bart., Mr. John Evans, Mr. Edward 

 Vivian, and Mr. William Pengellx- (Reporter) 16 



Report of a Committee " appointed to report on the changes which they 

 may consider desirable to make, if any, in the Rules of Zoological 

 Nomenclature drawn up by Mr. H. E. Strickland, at the instance of 

 the British Association at their Meeting in Manchester in 1842 " . . 25 



Report of the Committee on the Distribution of the Organic Remains of 

 the North Staffordshire Coal-field. — Concluding Report. By a Com- 

 mittee, consisting of Sir Philip de M. Grey Egerton, Bart., F.R.S., 

 Professor T. H. Httxlet,E.R.S. Reporter, William Moltneux,F.G.S. 42 



Report of the Committee appointed to explore the Marine Fauna and 

 Flora of the Soutb Coast of Devon and Cornwall. — No. 1. Consisting 

 of J. Gwtn Jeffreys, F.R.S., Rev. Thomas Hincks, Jonathan Couch, 

 F.L.S., Charles Stewart, J. Brooking Rowe, F.L.S., and J. Ralfs, 

 F.L.S. Reporter, C. Spence Bate, F.R.S., &c 51 



Interim Report of the Committee on the Resistance of Water to Floating 

 and Immersed Bodies. By W. J. Macquorn Rankine, C.E., LL.D., 

 F.R.S., John Scott Russell, C.E., F.R.S., James R. Napier, Marine 

 Engineer, and William Froude, C.E 56 



Report on Observations of Luminous Meteors, 1864-65. By a Com- 

 mittee, consisting of James Glaisher, F.R.S., of the Royal Observa- 

 tory, Greenwich, Secretary to the British Meteorological Society, &c. ; 

 Robert P. Greg, F.G.S., &c. ; E. W. Brayley, F.R.S., Professor of 

 Physical Geography and Meteorology in the Loudon Institution, &c. ; 

 and Alexander S. Herschel, B.A 57 



Report on Dredging on the Coast of Aberdeenshire. By the Rev. Walter 

 Gregor, and Robert Dawson 142 



An Account of Meteorological and Physical Observations in Tbree Bal- 

 loon Ascents made in the years 1864 and 1865 (in continuation of 

 twenty-two made in the years 1862, 1863, and 1864), under the 

 auspices of the Committee of the British Association for the Advance- 

 ment of Science, by James Glaisher, F.R.S., at the request of the 

 Committee, consisting of Colonel Sykcs, The Astronomer Royal, Lord 

 Wrottesley, Sir D. Brewster, Sir J. Herschel, Bart., Dr. Lloyd, Dr. Lee, 

 Dr. Robinson, Mr. Gassiot, Mr. Glaisher, Prof. Tyndall, Dr. Fair- 

 bairn, and Dr. W. A. Miller 145 



Interim Report of the Committee on the Transmission of Sound under 

 Water, consisting of the Rev. Dr. Robtnson, Prof. Wheatstone, Dr. 

 Gladstone, and Prof. Hennessy 192 



On the Rainfall of the British Isles. By G. J. Symons, M.B.M.S 192 



On the Strength of Materials considered in relation to the Construction 

 of Iron Ships. By William Fairbairn, LL.D., F.R.S., &c, and 

 Thomas Tate, Esq 243 



Maltese Caves. — Report on Mnaidra Cave. By A. Leith Adams, M.A., 

 M.B., F.G.S , 257 



