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PROCEEDINGS of the THmTEENTH MEETING, at Cork, 

 1843, PuUished at 12s. 



Contents :— Eobert Mallet, Third Eeport upon the Action of Air and Water, 

 ■whether fresh or salt, clear or foul, and at Various Temperatures, upon Cast Iron, 

 Wrought Iron, and Steel ;— Report of the Committee appointed to conduct the Co- 

 operation of the British Association in the System of Simultaneous Magnetical and 

 Meteorological Observations ;— Sir J. F. W. Herschel, Bart., Eeport of the Committee 

 appointed for the Eeduction of Meteorological Observations ;— Eeport of the Com- 

 mittee appointed for Experiments on Steam-Engines;— Eeport of the Committee ap- 

 pointed to continue their Experiments on the Vitality of Seeds ;— J. S. Eussell, Eeport 

 of a Series of Observations on the Tides of the Frith of Forth and the East Coast of 

 Scotland ;— J. S. Eussell, Notice of a Eeport of the Committee on the Form of Ships ; 

 —J. Blake, Eeport on the Physiological Action of Medicines ;— Eeport of the Com- 

 mittee on Zoological Nomenclature ;— Eeport of the Committee for Eegistering the 

 Shocks of Earthquakes, and making such Meteorological Observations as may appear 

 to them desirable ;— Eeport of the Committee for conducting Experiments with Cap- 

 tive Balloons ;— Prof . Wheatstone, Appendix to the Eeport ;— Eeport of the Com- 

 mittee for the Translation and Publication of Foreign Scientific Memoirs ;— C. W. 

 Peach, on the Habits of the Marine Testacea ;— E. Forbes, Eeport on the MoUusca 

 and Eadiata of the iEgean Sea, and on their distribution, considered as bearing on 

 Geology ;— L. Agassiz, Synoptical Table of British Fossil Fishes, arranged in the 

 order of the Geological Formations ;— E. Owen, Eeport on the British Fossil Mam- 

 malia, Part II. ;— E. W. Binney, Report on the excavation made at the junction of 

 the Lower New Eed Sandstone with the Coal Measures at Collyhurst ;— W. Thomp- 

 son, Eeport on the Fauna of Ireland: Div. JftDerif&rftto;— Provisional Reports, and 

 Notices of Progress in Special Researches entrusted to Committees and Individuals. 



Together with the Transactions of the Sections, the Earl of Rosse's Address, and 

 Recommendations of the Association and its Committees. 



PROCEEDINGS of the FOURTEENTH MEETING, at York, 1844, 

 Fuhlished at £1. 



Contents : — W. B. Carpenter, on the Microscopic Structure of Shells ; — J. Alder 

 and A. Hancock, Report on the British Nudibranchiate MoUusca;— E. Hunt, 

 Researches on the Influence of Light on the Germination of Seeds and the Growth 

 of Plants ;— Eeport of a Committee appointed by the British Association in 1840, 

 for revising the Nomenclature of the Stars ;—Lt.- Col. Sabine, on the Meteorology 

 of Toronto in Canada ;— J. Blackwall, Report on some recent researches into the 

 Structure, Functions, and Economy of the Araneidea made in Great Britain ; — Earl 

 of Eosse, on the Construction of large Reflecting Telescopes ;—Eev. W. V. Harcourt, 

 Eeport on a Gas-furnace for Experiments on Vitrifaction and other Applications of 

 High Heat in the Laboratory ;— Eeport of the Committee for Eegistering Earth- 

 quake Shocks in Scotland ;— Eeport of a Committee for Experiments on Steam- 

 Engines ;— Eeport of the Committee to investigate the Varieties of the Human 

 Race ;— Fourth Eeport of a Committee appointed to continue their Experiments on 

 the Vitality of Seeds ;— W. Fairbairn, on the Consumption of Fuel and the Preven- 

 tion of Smoke;— F. Eonalds, Eeport concerning the Observatory of the British 

 Association at Kew ;— Sixth Eeport of the Committee appointed to conduct the 

 Co-operation of the British Association in the System of Simultaneous Magnetical 

 and Meteorological Observations ;— Prof . Forchhammer on the influence of Fucoidal 

 Plants upon the Formations of the Earth, on Metamorphism in general, and par- 

 ticularly the Metamorphosis of the Scandinavian Alum Slate ; — H. E. Strickland, 

 Report on the Eecent Progress and Present State of Ornithology ;— T. Oldham, 

 Eeport of Committee appointed to conduct Observations on Subterranean Tempera- 

 ture in Ireland ;— Prof . Owen, Eeport on the Extinct Mammals of Australia, and 

 descriptions of certain Fossils indicative of the former existence in that continent 

 of large Marsupial Eepresentatives of the Order Pachydermata ;— W. S. Harris, 

 Report on the working of Whewell and Osier's Anemometers at Plymouth, for the 

 years 1841, 1842, 1843 ;— W. E. Birt, Eeport on Atmospheric Waves ;— L. Agassiz, 

 Eapport sur les Poissons Fossiles de I'Argile de Londres, with translation; — J. S. 



