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mentary Schools ;— Report on the Regulation of Wages by means of Sliding Scales ; 

 —Report on the Endurance of Metals under repeated and varying Stresses, and the 

 proper working Stresses on Railway Bridges and other structures subject to varying 

 loads ;— Report on the Prehistoric Race in the Greek Islands ;— Report of the Com- 

 mittee for investigating and publishing reports on the physical characters, languages, 

 and industrial and social condition of the North-western Tribes of the Dominion of 

 Canada ;— Report to the Council of the Corresponding Societies Committee;— Report 

 on Electrolysis in its Physical and Chemical Bearings;— Sixth Report on the Vol- 

 canic Phenomena of Japan ;— Second Report on the Rate of Erosion of the Sea-coasts 

 of England and Wales, and the Influence of the Artificial Abstraction of Shingle or 

 other Material in that action ;— The Modern Development of Thomas Young's 

 Theory of Colour- vision ;— On the Explicit Form of the Complete Cubic Differential 

 Resolvent ;— On the Phenomena and Theories of Solution ;— On the Exploration of 

 the Raygill Fissure in Lothersdale, Yorkshire ;— An Accurate and Rapid Method of 

 estimating the Silica in an Igneous Rock :— On some Points for the Consideration 

 of English Engineers with reference to the Design of Girder Bridges ;— The Sphere 

 and Roller Mechanism for Transmitting Power;— On Improvements in Electric 

 Safety Lamps ;— On the Birmingham, Tame, and Rea District Drainage. 



Together with the Transactions of the Sections, Sir J. William Dawson's Address, 

 and Recommendations of the Association and its Committees. 



REPORT OF THE FIFTY-SEVENTH MEETING, at Manchester, 

 August and September 1887, Published at £1 4s. 



Contents : Third Report of the Committee for promoting Tidal Observations in 



Canada ;— Fourth Report on the best methods of recording the direct Intensity of 

 Solar Radiation ;— Report of the Committee for co-operatiog with the Scottish 

 Meteorological Society in making Meteorological Observations on Ben Nevis;— 

 Fourth Report of the Committee for co-operating with Mr. E. J. Lowe in his project 

 of establishing on a permanent and scientific basis a Meteorological Observatory near 

 Chepstow ;— Final Report of the Committee for co-operating with the Meteorological 

 Society of the Mauritius in the publication of Daily Synoptic Charts of the Indian 

 Ocean for the year 1861 ;— Second Report- of the Committee for inviting designs for 

 a good Differential Gravity Meter in supersession of the Pendulum ;— Report on the 

 desirability of combined action for the purpose of Translation of Foreign Memoirs ; 

 —Report on the Action of the Silent Discharge of Electricity on Oxygen and other 

 Gases ;— Report on the Influence of Silicon on the properties of Steel ;— Third Report 

 on Standards of Light ;— Third Report on certain Physical Constants of Solution, 

 especially the Expansion of Saline Solutions ;— Report on the Nature of Solution ;— 

 Report on the Bibliography of Solution ;— Report of the Committee for making 

 arrangements for assisting the Marine Biological Association Laboratory at Ply- 

 mouth ;— Fifth Report on the Fossil Phyllopoda of the Paleeozoic Rocks ;— Report on 

 the Migration of Birds ;— Report on the Flora and Fauna of the Cameroons Moun- 

 tain ;— Report on the occupation of a Table at the Zoological Station at Naples ;— 

 Report of the Committee for aiding in the maintenance of the establishment of a 

 Marine Biological Station at Granton, Scotland ;— Report of the Committee for con- 

 tinuing the preparation of a Report on our present knowledge of the Flora of China ; 

 — Report on the question of accurately defining the term ' British ' as applied to the 

 Marine Fauna and Flora of our Islands ;— Report of the Committee for taking steps 

 for the establishment of a Botanical Station at Peradeniya, Ceylon ;— Report on the 

 Provincial Museums of the United Kingdom ;— First Report on the Disappearance of 

 Native Plants from their Local Habitats ;— Report on the Mechanism of the Secretion 

 of Urine ;— Report on the Herds of Wild Cattle in Chartley Park and other parks in 

 Great Britain ;— Report on the Physiology of the Lymphatic System ;— Report on the 

 Depth of Permanently Frozen Soil in the Polar Regions, its Geographical Limits and 

 relation to the present poles of greatest cold ;— Report of the Committee for co- 

 operating with the Royal Geographical Society in endeavouring to bring before the 

 authorities of the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge the advisability of pro- 

 moting the study of Geography by establishing special Chairs for the purpose ;— 

 Final Report of the Committee for considering the combination of the Ordnance and 

 Admiralty Surveys, and the production of a Bathy-hypsographical Map of the British 

 Islands ;— Report on the teaching of Science in Elementary Schools ;— Report on the 

 Prehistoric Inhabitants of the British Islands ;— Report of the Committee for editing 



