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-"Fifth Report on the Selection and Nomenclature of Dynamical and Electrical 

 Units ; — Report of the Committee on the Labyrinthodonts of the Coal-measures ; — 

 Report of the Committee a]3pointed to construct and print Catalogues of Spectral 

 Rays ;— Report of the Committee appointed to explore the Settle Caves ; — Sixth Report 

 on Underground Temperature ; — Report on the Rainfall of the British Isles ; — Seventh 

 Report on Researches in Fossil Crustacea ; — Report on Recent Progress in Elliptic 

 and Hyperelliptic Functions ; — Report on the desirability of establishing a ' Close 

 Time ' for the preservation of Indigenous Animals ; — Report on Luminous Meteors ; 

 —On the Visibility of the Dark Side of Venus ; — Report of the Committee for the 

 Foundation of Zoological Stations in different parts of the World ; — Second Report of 

 the Committee for collecting Fossils from North-western Scotland ; — Fifth Report 

 on the Treatment and Utilization of Sewage ; — Report of the Committee on Monthly 

 Reports of the Progress of Chemistry ; — On the Bradford Waterworks ; — Report on 

 the possibility of Improving the Methods of Instruction in Elementary Geometry ; 

 — Interim Report of the Committee on Instruments for Measuring the Speed of 

 Ships, &c. ; — Report of the Committee for Determinating High Temperatures by 

 means of the Refrangibility of Light evolved by Fluid or Solid Substances ; — On a 

 Periodicity of Cyclones and Rainfall in connexion with Stmspot Periodicity ; — Fifth 

 Report on the Structure of Carboniferous- Limestone Corals ; — Report of the Com- 

 mittee on preparing and publishing brief fonns of Instructions for Travellers, 

 Ethnologists, &c. ; — Preliminary Note from the Committee on the Influence of Forests 

 on the Rainfall ;— Report of the Sub-Wealden Exploration Committee ; — Report of 

 the Committee on Machinery for obtaining a Record of the Roughness of the Sea 

 and Measurement of Waves near shore ; — Report on Science Lectures and Organi- 

 zation ; — Second Report on Science Lectures and Organization. 



Together with the Transactions of the Sections, Prof. A. W. Williamson's Addreas, 

 and Recommendations of the Association and its Committees; 



PROCEEDINGS of the FORTY-FOURTH MEETING, at Belfast, 

 August 1874, Published at £\ 5s. 



Contents: — Tenth Report on Kent's Cavern: — Report for investigating the 

 Chemical Constitution and Optical Properties of Essential Oils ; — Second Report of 

 the Sub-Wealden Exploration Committee ; — On the Recent Progress and Present 

 State of Systematic Botany; — Report of the Committee for investigating the Nature 

 of Intestinal Secretion ; — Report of the Committee on the Teaching of Physics in 

 Schools ; — Preliminary Report for investigating Isomeric Cresols and their Deriva- 

 tives ; — Third Report of the Committee for collecting Fossils from localities in 

 North-western Scotland ; — Report on the Rainfall of the Britisli Isles ; — On the Bel- 

 fast Harbour ; — Report of Inquiry into the Method of making Gold-assays ; — Report 

 of a Committee on Experiments to determine the Thermal Conductivities of certain 

 Rocks ; — Second Report on tlie Exploration of the Settle Caves ; — On the Industrial 

 uses of the Upper Bann River; — Report of the Committee on the Structure and 

 Classification of the Labp'inthodonts ; — Second Report of the Committee for record- 

 ing the position, height above the sea, lithological characters, size, and origin of the 

 Erratic Blocks of England and Wales, &c. ; — Sixth Report on the Treatment and 

 Utilization of Sewage ; — Report on the Anthropological Notes and Queries for the 

 use of Travellers ; — On Cyclone and Rainfall Periodicities ; — Fifth Report on Earth- 

 quakes in Scotland ; — Report of the Committee appointed to prepare and print 

 Tables of Wave-numbers ; — Report of the Committee for testing the new Pyrometer 

 of Mr. Siemens ; — Report to the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty on Experi- 

 ments for the Determination of the Frictional Resistance of Water on a Surface 

 &c. ; — Second Report for the Selection and Nomenclature of DjTiamical and Elec- 

 trical Units ;— On Instruments for measuring the Speed of Ships ; — Report of the 

 Committee on the possibility of establishing a ' Close Time ' for the Protection 

 of Indigenous Animals ; — Report of the Committee to inquire into the economic 

 eifects of Combinations of Labourers and Capitalists ; — Preliminary Report on 

 Dredging on the Coasts of Durham and North Yorkshire ; — Report on Luminous 

 Meteors ; — Report on the best means of providing for a Uniformity of Weights and 

 Measures. 



Together with the Transactions of the Sections, Prof. John Tyndall's Address, and 

 Recommendations of the Association and its Committees. 



