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•Committee for determining a Gauge for the manufacture of various small Screws ; — 

 Keport of the ' Local Scientific Societies ' Committee ; — On some results of photo- 

 graphing the Solar Corona without an Eclipse ;— On Lame's DifEerential Equation ;— 

 Kecent Changes in the Distribution of Wealth in relation to the Incomes of the 

 Labouring Classes ;— Onthe Mersey Tunnel ;— On Manganese Bronze ;— Nest Gearing. 

 Together with the Transactions of the Sections, Professor Cayley's Address, and 

 Recommendations of the Association and its Committees. 



REPORT OF THE FIFTY-FOURTH MEETING, at Montreal, 

 August and September, 1884, PuhUshed at 11. 4-s. 



Contents -. — Report of the Committee for considering and advising on the best 

 means for facilitating the adoption of the Metric System of Weights and Measures 

 in Great Britain ; — Keport of the Committee for considering the best methods of 

 recording the direct intensity of Solar Radiation ; — Report of the Committee for 

 constructing and issuing practical Standards for use in Electrical Measurements ; — 

 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 year 18C1 ; — Second Report on the Harmonic Analysis of Tidal 

 Observations;— Report of the Committee for co-operating with Mr. E. J. Lowe in 

 his project of establishing a Meteorological Observatory near Chepstow on a per- 

 manent and scientific basis ; — Report of the Committee for co-operating with the 

 Directors of the Ben Nevis Observatory in making Meteorological Observations on 

 Ben Nevis ; — Report of the Committee for reducing and tabulating the Tidal Obser- 

 vations in the English Channel, made with the Dover Tide-gauge, and for connecting 

 them with Observations made on the French Coast ; — Fourth Report on Meteoric 

 Dust ; Second Report on Chemical Nomenclatm'e ; — Report on Isomeric Naphtha- 

 lene Derivatives ; — Second Report on the Fossil Phyllopoda of the Palseozoic Rocks ; — 

 Tenth Report on the Circulation of Underground Waters in the Permeable Formations 

 ■of England and Wales, and the Quantity and Character of the Water supplied to 

 various Towns and Districts from these Formations ; — Fifth and last Report on Fossil 

 Polyzoa ; — Twelfth Report on the Erratic Blocks of England, Wales, and Ii-eland ; — 

 Report upon the National Geological Surveys of Europe ;— Report onthe 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 ; — Report on the Exploration 

 of the Raygill Fissure in Lothersdale, Yorkshire ; — Fourth Report on the Earth- 

 quake Phenomena of Japan ; — Report on the occupation of a Table at the Zoological 

 Station at Naples ;— Fourth Report on the Natural History of Timor Laut; — Report 

 on the Influence of Bodily Exercise on the Elimination of Nitrogen ; — Report on the 

 Migration of Birds ; — Report on the Preparation of a Bibliography of certain groups 

 ■of Invertebrata; — Report on the Exploration of KrUma-njaro, and the adjoining 

 mountains of Eastern Equatorial Africa ; — Report on the Survey of Eastern Pales- 

 tine ; — Report of the Committee for defraying the expenses of completing the Pre- 

 paration of the final Report of the Anthropometric Committee ; — Report on the 

 teaching of Science in Elementary Schools;— Report of the Committee for deter- 

 mining a Gauge for the manufacture of the various small Screws used in Telegraphic 

 and Electrical Apparatus, in Clockwork, and for other analogous purposes ; — Report 

 on Patent Legislation ; — Report of the Committee for defining the Facial Charac- 

 teristics of the Races and Principal Crosses in the British Isles, and obtaining 

 Illustrative Photographs with a view to their publication ; — Report on the present 

 state of our knowledge of Spectrum Analysis ; — Report of the Committee for pre- 

 paring a new series of Wave-length Tables of the Spectra of the Elements ; — On the 

 Connection between Sun-spots and Terrestrial Phenomena; — On the Seat of the 

 Electromotive Forces in the Voltaic Cell ;— On the Archjean Rocks of Great Britain ; 

 — On the Concordance of the Mollusca inhabiting both sides of the North Atlantic 

 and the intermediate Seas ; — On the Characteristics of the North American Flora ; — 

 On the Theory of the Steam Engine ; — Improvements in Coast Signals, with Supj^le- 

 mentary Remarks on the New Eddystone Lighthouse ; — On American Permanent 

 Way. 



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

 Recommendations of the Association and its Committees. 



