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Experimentation ; — Report on the Physiological Action of Organic Chemical Com- 

 pounds ; — Eeport of the Committee appointed to get cut and prepared Sections of 

 Mountain-Limestone Corals ; — Second Report on Steam-Boiler Explosions ; — Re- 

 port on the Treatment and Utilization of Sewage ;— Report on promoting the Foun- 

 dation of Zoological Stations in different parts of the World ;— Preliminary Report 

 on the Thermal Equivalents of the Oxides of Chlorine ; — Report on the practica- 

 bility of establishing a ' Close Time ' for the protection of Indigenous Animals ; 

 —Report on Earthquakes in Scotland ;— Report on the best means of providing for 

 a Uniformity of Weights and Measures ; — Report on Tidal Observations. 



Together with the Transactions of the Sections, Sir William Thomson's Address, 

 and Recommendations of the Association and its Committees. 



PEOCEBDIN'GS of the FORTY-SECOND MEETING, at Brighton, 

 August 1872, PuUished at £1 4s. 



Contents : — Report on the Gaussian Constants for the Tear 1829 ; — Second Sup- 

 plementary Eeport on the Extinct Birds of the Mascarene Islands ; — Eeport of the 

 Committee for Superintending the Monthly Reports of the Progress of Chemistry ;— 

 Report of the Committee on the best means of providing for a Uniformity of 

 Weights and Measures ; — Eighth Report on Kent's Cavern ; — Report on promoting the 

 Foundation of Zoological Stations in different pa1:ts of the World ;— Fourth Report 

 on the Fauna of South Devon ; — Preliminary Report of the Committee appointed to 

 Construct and Print Catalogues of Spectral Rays arranged upon a Scale of Wave- 

 numbers ; — Third Report on Steam-Boiler Explosions : — Report on Observations of 

 Luminous Meteors, 1871-72 ; — Experiments on the Surface-friction experienced by 

 a Plane moving through Water ; — Report of the Committee on the Antagonism be- 

 tween the Action of Active Substances ;— Fifth Report on Underground Tempera- 

 tttre ; — Preliminary Report of the Committee on Siemens's EleCtrical-Resistance 

 Pyrometer : — Fourth Report on the Treatment and Utilization of Sewage ;— Interim 

 Report of the Committee on Instruments for Measiuring the Speed of Ships and 

 Currents ; — Report on the Rainfall of the British Isles ; — Report of the Committee 

 on a Geographical Exploration of the Country of Moab ; — Sur I'elimination des 

 Fonctions Arbitraires ; — Report on the Discovery of Fossils in certain remote parts 

 of the North-western Highlands ; — Eeport of the Committee on Earthquakes in 

 Scotland ; — Fourth Eeport on Carboniferous-Limestone Corals ; — Eeport of the Com- 

 mittee to consider the mode in which new Inventions and Claims for Eeward in 

 respect of adopted Inventions are examined and dealt with by the different Departs 

 ments of Government ; — Eeport of the Committee for discussing Observations of 

 Lunar Objects suspected of change ; — Eeport on the Mollusca of Europe ; — Eeport of 

 the Committee for investigating the Chemical Constitution and Optical Properties 

 of Essential Oils ; —Eeport on the practicability of establishing a ' Close Time ' for 

 the preservation of Indigenous Animals ; — Sixth Eeport on the Structure and Classi- 

 fication of Fossil Crustacea ; — Eeport of the Committee appointed to organize an Ex- 

 pedition for observing the Solar Eclipse of Dec. 12, 1871 ; — Preliminary Eeport of 

 a Committee on Terato-embryological Inquiries ; — Eeport on Recent Progress in 

 Elliptic and Hyperelliptic Functions ; — Eeport on Tidal Observations ; — On the 

 Brighton Waterworks ; — On Amsler's Planimeter. 



Together with the Transactions of the Sections, Dr. Carpenter's Address, and 

 Recommendations of the Association and its Committees. 



PROCEEDINGS op the EORTT-THIRD MEETING, at Bradford, 

 September 1873, Published at £1 5*. 



CONTENTB : — Eeport of the Committee on Mathematical Tables ; — Observations 

 on the Application of Machinery to the Cutting of Coal in Mines ; — Concluding Ee- 

 port on the Maltese Fossil Elephants ; — Eeport of the Committee for ascertaining 

 the Existence in different parts of the United Kingdom of any Erratic Blocks or 

 Boulders ; — Fourth Eeport on Earthquakes in Scotland ; — Ninth Eeport on Kent's 

 Cavern ; — On the Flint and Chert Implements found in Kent's Cavern ; — Eeport of 

 the Committee for Investigating the Chemical Constitution and Optical Properties 

 of Essential Oils ; — Eeport of Inquiry into the Method of making Gold-assays ; 



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