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mittee ; — Keport on the Chemical Nature of Cast Iron ; — Report on the Marine Fauna 

 and Flora of the South Coast of Devon and Cornwall ; — Report on the Practicability 

 of establishing a ' Close Time ' for the Protection of Indigenous Animals ; — Experi- 

 mental Researches on the Mechanical Properties of Steel; — Second Report on 

 British Fossil Corals; — Report of the Committee appointed to get cut and prepared 

 Sections of Mountain-Limestone Corals for Photographing ; — Report on the Rate of 

 Increase of Underground Temperature; — Fifth Report on Kent's Cavern, Devon- 

 shire ; — Report on the Connexion between Chemical Constitution and Physiological 

 Action ; — On Emission, Absorption, and Reflection of Obscure Heat ; — Report on 

 Observations of Luminous Meteors ; — Report on Uniformity of Weights and Measures ; 

 — Report on the Treatment and Utilization of Sewage ; — Supplement to Second 

 Report of the Steamship- Performance Committee; — Report on Recent Progress in 

 Elliptic and Hyperelliptic Functions ; — Report on Mineral Veins in Carboniferous 

 Limestone and their Organic Contents ; — Notes on the Foraminifera of Mineral 

 Veins and the Adjacent Strata ; — Report of the Rainfall Committee ; — Interim Re- 

 port on the Laws of the Flow and Action of \yater containing Solid Matter in 

 Suspension ; — Interim Report on Agricultural Machinery ; — Report on the Physio- 

 logical Action of Methyl and Allied Series ; — On the Influence of Form considered 

 in Relation to the Strength of Railway-axles and other portions of Machinery sub- 

 jected to Rapid Alterations of Strain; — On the Penetration of Armour-plates with 

 Long Shells of Large Capacity fired obliquely ; — Report on Standards of Electrical 

 Resistance. 



Together with the Transactions of the Sections, Prof. Stokes's Address, and Re- 

 commendations of the Association and its Committees. 



PROCEEDINGS of the FORTIETH MEETING, at Liverpool, 

 September 1870, Puhlishecl at 18s. 



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

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

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

 port on the practicability of establishing a ' Close Time ' for tlie 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, Propulsion, and Seagoing Qualities of 

 Ships; — Report on Earthquakes in Scotland ; — Report on the Treatment and Utili- 

 zation of Sewage ; — Report on Observations of Luminous Meteors, 1869-70; — Report 

 on Recent Progress in Elliptic and Hyperelliptic Functions; — Report on Tidal Ob- 

 servations ; — 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 Address, and Re- 

 commendations of the Association and its Committees. 



PROCEEDINGS of the EORTY-FIRST MEETING, at Edinburgh, 

 August 1871, Published at 16s. 



Contents : — Seventh Report on Kent's Cavern ; — Fourth Report on Under- 

 ground Temperature; — Report on Observations of Luminous Meteors, 1870-71; — 

 Fifth Report on the Structure and Classification of the Fossil Criistacea ; — Report 

 of the Committee appointed for the purpose of urging on Her Majesty's Government 

 the expediency of arranging and tabulating the results of the apisroaching Census 

 in the three several parts of the United Kingdom in such a manner as to admit of 

 ready and effective comparison ; — Report of the Committee appointed for the purpose 

 of Superintending the Publication of Abstracts of Chemical Papers ; — Report of the 

 Committee for discussing Observations of Lunar Objects suspected of change ; — 

 Second Provisional Report on the Tliermal Conductivity of Bletals ; — Report on 

 the Rainfall of the British Isles ; — Third Report on the British Fossil Corals ; — 

 Report on the Heat generated in the Blood during the Process of Arterialization ; 

 — Report of the Committee appointed to consider the subject of Physiological 



