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Patent Laws : Eeport of Committee on the Patent Laws ; — J. Park Harrison, Lunar 

 Influence on the Temperature of the Air : — Balfour Stewart, an Account of the Con- 

 struction of the Self-recording Magnetographs at present in operation at the Kew 

 Observatory of the British Association ; — Professor H. J. Stephen Smith, Eeport on 

 the Theory of Numbers, Part I. ;— Report of the Committee on Steamship Performance ; 

 —Report of the Proceedings of the Balloon Committee of the British Association 

 appointed at the Meeting at Leeds ;— Prof. William K. Sullivan, Preliminary 

 Report on the Solubility of Salts at Temperatures above 100° Cent., and on the 

 Mutual Action of Salts in Solution. 



Together with the Transactions of the Sections, Prince Albert's Address, and 

 Recommendations of the Association and its Committees. 



PROCEEDINGS op the THIRTIETH MEETING, at Oxford, June 

 and July 1860, Pioblished at 15s. 



Contents: — James Glaisher, Report on Observations of Luminous Meteors, 

 1859-60 ;— J. R. Kinahan, Report of Dublin Bay Dredging Committee ; — Rev. J. 

 Anderson, Report on the Excavations in Dura Den ; — Prof. Buckman, Report on 

 the Experimental Plots in the Botanical Garden of the Royal Agricultural College, 

 Cirencester ; — Rev. R. Walker, Report of the Committee on Balloon Ascents ; — Prof. 

 W. Thomson, Report of Committee appointed to prepare a Self-recording Atmo- 

 spheric Electrometer for Kew, and Portable Apparatus for observing Atmospheric 

 Electricity ; — William Fairbairn, Experiments to determine the Effect of Vibratory 

 Action and long-continued Changes of Load upon Wrought-iron Girders ; — R. P. 

 Greg, Catalogue of Meteorites and Fireballs, fromA.D. 2 to a.d. 1860; — Prof. H. J. S. 

 Smith, Report on the Theory of Numbers, Part 11. ; — Vice-Admiral Moorsom, on the 

 Performance of Steam- vessels, the Functions of the Screw, and the Relations of its 

 Diameter and Pitch to the Form of the Vessel ; — Rev. W. V. Harcourt, Report on the 

 Effects of long-continued Heat, illustrative of Geological Phenomena ; — Second 

 Eeport of the Committee on Steamship Performance ; — Interim Report on the Gauging 

 of Water by Triangular Notches ; — List of the British Marine Invertebrate Fauna. 



Together with the Transactions of the Sections, Lord Wrottesley's Address, and 

 Eecommendations of the Association and its Committees. 



PROCEEDINGS of the THIRTY-FIRST MEETING, at Manches- 

 ter, September 1861, Puhlished at £1. 



Contents : — James Glaisher, Report on Observations of Luminous Meteors ; — 

 Dr. E. Smith, Report on the Action of Prison Diet and Discipline on the Bodily 

 Functions of Prisoners, Part I. ; — Charles Atherton, on Freight as affected by Differ- 

 ences in the Dynamic Properties of Steamships ; — Warren De La Rue, Report on the 

 Progress of Celestial Photography since the Aberdeen Meeting ; — B. Stewart, on the 

 Theory of Exchanges, and its recent extension ; — Drs. E. Schunck, R. Angus Smith, 

 and H. E. Eoscoe, on the Recent Progress and Present Condition of Manufacturing 

 Chemistry in the South Lancashire District; — Dr. J. Hunt, on Ethno- Climatology ; 

 or, the Acclimatization of Man ; — Prof. J. Thomson, on Experiments on the Gauging 

 of Water by Triangular Notches; — Dr. A. Voelcker, Report on Field Experiments 

 and Laboratory Researches on the Constituents of Manures essential to cultivated 

 Crops ; — Prof. H. Hennessy, Provisional Report on the Present State of our Knowledge 

 respecting the Transmission of Sound -signals during Fogs at Sea; — Dr. P. L. Sclater 

 And F. von Hochstetter, Report on the Present State of our Knowledge of the Birds 

 of the Genus Ajiteryx living in New Zealr.nd ; — J. G. Jeffreys, Report of the Results 

 of Deep-sea Dredging in Zetland, with a Notice of several Species of Mollusca new 

 to Science or to the British Isles ; — Prof. J. Phillips, Contributions to a Report on 

 the Physical Aspect of the Moon ; — W. R. Birt, Contribution to a Report on the Phy- 

 sical Aspect of the Moon; — Dr. Collingwood and Mr. Byerley, Preliminary Report 

 of the Dredging Committee of the Mersey and Dee ; — Third Report of the Committee 

 on Steamship Performance ; — J. G. Jeffreys, Preliminary Report on the Best Mode of 

 preventing the Ravages of Teredo and other Animals in our Ships and Harbours ; — 

 R. Mallet, Report on the Experiments made at Holyhead to ascertain the Transit- 

 Velocity of Waves, analogous to Earthquake Waves, through the local Rock Formations ; 



