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Eeport of the Committee on Instruments for Measuring the Speed of Ships and 

 Currents ; — Eeport on the Rainfall of the British Isles ; — Keport of the Committee 

 on a Geographical Er^jloration of the Country of Moab ;^Sur I'glimination des 

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

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

 Scotland ; — Foittth Report on Carboniferous- Limestone Corals ; — Report of the Com- 

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

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

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

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

 the Committee for investigating the Chemical Constitution and Optical Properties 

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

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

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

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

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

 Elliptic and Hyperelliptic Functions ;— Report 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 of the FORTY-THIRD MEETING, at Bradford, 

 September 1873, Published at £1 bs. 



Contents : — Report of the Committee on Mathematical Tables ; — Observations 

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

 ])ort on the Maltese Fossil Elephants ; — Report of the Committee for ascertaining 

 the Existence indifferent parts of the United Kingdom of any Erratic Blocks or 

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

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

 the Committee for Investigating the Chemical Constitution and Optical Properties 

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

 — 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 appointed 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 dilferent 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 ;— 0"n 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 Sun-spot Periodicity ; — Fifth 

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

 mittee on preparing and publishing brief forms of Instructions for Ti-avellers, 

 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 Address, 

 and Recommendations of the Association and its Committees. 



