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— Second Report on the Natural History of Timor-laut ; — Report of the Committee 

 for carrying out the recommendations of the Anthropometric Committee of 1880, 

 especially as regards the anthropometry of children and of females, and the more 

 complete discussion of the collected facts ; — Report on the Natural History of 

 Socotra and the adjacent Highlands of Arabia and Somali Land ; — Report on the 

 Maintenance of the Scottish Zoological Station ; — Report on the Migration of 

 15irds ; — Report on the Occupation of a Table at the Zoological Station at Naples ;— 

 Report on the Survey of Eastern Palestine ; — Final Report on the Appropriation of 

 Wages, &c. ; — Report on the working of the revised New Code, and of other legisla- 

 tion affecting the teaching of Science in Elementary Schools ; — Report on Patent 

 Legislation ; — Report of the Committee for determining a Gauge for the manufacture 

 of various small Screws ; — Report on the best means of ascertaining the Effective 

 Wind Pressure to which buildings and structures are exposed ; — On the Boiling 

 Points and Vapour Tension of Mercury, of Sulphur, and of some Compounds of 

 Carbon, determined by means of the Hydrogen Thermometer ; — On the Method of 

 Harmonic Analysis used in deducing the Numerical Values of the Tides of long 

 period, and on a Misprint in the Tidal Report for 1872 ; — List of Works on the 

 Geology and Paleontology of Oxfordshire, of Berkshire, and of Buckinghamshire ; — 

 Notes on the oldest Records of the Sea- Route to China from Western Asia; — The 

 Deserts of Africa and Asia ; — State of Crime in England, Scotland, and Ireland in 

 1880 ; — On the. Treatment of Steel for the Construction of Ordnance, and other p)ur- 

 poses ; — The Channel Tunnel ; — The Forth Bridge. 



Together with the Transactions of the Sections, Dr. C. W. Siemens's Address, and 

 Recommendations of the Association and its Committees. 



EEPORT OP THE FIFTY-THIRD MEETING, at Southport, 

 September 1883, PublisJied at £\ 4s. 



Contents : — Report of tlie Committee for constructing and issuing practical 

 Standards for use in Electrical Measurements ; — Sixteenth Report on Underground 

 Temperature ; — Report on the best Experimental Jlethods that can be used in ob- 

 serving Total Solar Eclipses ; — Report on the Harmonic Analysis of Tidal Observa- 

 tions ; — Report of the Committee for co-operating with the Meteorological Society of 

 the Mauritius in their proposed publication of Daily Synoptic Charts of the 

 Indian Ocean from the j'ear 1861 ; — Report on Mathematical Tables ; — Report of the 

 Committee for co-operating with the Scottish Meteorological Society in making 

 Meteorological Observations on Ben Nevis ;— Report on Meteoric Dust ; — Report of 

 the Committee appointed for fixing a Standard of White Light ; — Report on Chemical 

 Nomenclature ; — Report on the investigation by means of Photograpiij' of the Ultra- 

 violet Spark Spectra emitted by Metallic Elements, and their combinations under 

 Aarying conditions ; — Report on Isomeric Naphthalene Derivatives ; — Report on 

 Explorations in Caves in the Cai'boniferous Limestone in the South of Ireland ; — 

 Report on the Exploration of Raj'gill Fissure, Yorkshire ; — Eleventh Report on the 

 Erratic Blocks of England, Wales, and Ireland ; — Ninth Report on the Circulation of 

 the Underground Waters in the Permeable Formations of England, and the Quality 

 and Quantity of the Water supplied to various Towns and Districts from these For- 

 mations ; — Report on the Fossil Plants of Halifax ; — Fourth Report on Fossil 

 Polyzoa ; — Fourth Report on the Tertiary Flora of the North of Ireland; — Report on 

 the Earthquake Phenomena of Japan ; — Report on the Fossil Phyllopoda of the 

 Palgeozoic Rocks ; — Third Report on the Natural History of Timor Laut ; — Report on 

 the Natural History of Socotra and the adjacent Highlands of Arabia and Somali 

 Land ; — Report on the Exploration of Kilima-njaro and the adjoining mountains of 

 Eastern Equatorial Africa ; — Report on the Migration of Birds ; — Report on the 

 Maintenance of the Scottish Zoological Station ; — Report on the Occupation of a Table 

 at the Zoological Station at Naples ; — Report on the Influence of Bodily Exercise on 

 the Elimination of Nitrogen ; — Report on the Ancient Earthwork in Epping Forest, 

 known as the ' Loughton ' or ' Cowper's ' Camp ; — Final Repiort of the Anthropometric 

 Committee ; — Report of the Committee for defining the Facial Characteristics of the 

 Races and Principal Crosses in the British Isles, and obtaining Illustrative Photo- 

 graphs ; — Report on the Survey of Eastern Palestine ; — Report on the workings of 

 the proposed revised New Code, and of other legislation affecting the teaching 

 of Science in Elementary Schools ; — Report on Patent Legislation ; — Report of the 



