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ai)d Port Glasgow) in the years 1853, 1854, 1855, 1856, and 1 857 ;— Report of the 

 CJommittee on Shipping Statistics; — Rev. H. Lloyd, D.D., Notice of the Instruments 

 employed in the Magnetic Survey of Ireland, with some of the Results; — I'rof. J. R. 

 Kinahan, Report of Dublin Dredging Committee, appointed 1857-58; — Prof . J. R. 

 Kinahan, Report on Crustacea of Dublin District; — Andrew Henderson, on River 

 Steamers, their Form, Construction, and Fittings, withreference to the necessityfor 

 improving the present means of Shallow-Water Navigation on the Rivers of British 

 India ; — George C. Hyndman, Report of the Belfast Dredging Committee ; — Appendix 

 to Mr. Vignoles' Paper 'On the Adaptation of Suspension Bridges to sustain the 

 passage of Railway Trains;' — Report of the Joint Committee of the Royal Society 

 and the British Association, for procuiing a continuance of the Magnetic and 

 Meteorological Observatories; — R. Beck ley. Description of a Self-recording Ane- 

 mometer. 



Together with the Transactions of the Sections, Prof. Owen's Address, and Re- 

 commendations of the Association and its Committees. 



PROCEEDINGS op the TWENTY-NINTH MEETING, at Aberdeen, 

 September 1859, Published at 15s. 



Contents :— George C. Foster, Preliminary Report on the Recent Progress and 

 Present State of Organic Chemistry ; — Professor Buckman, Report on the Growth of 

 Plants in the Garden of the Royal Agricultural College, Cirencester ;— Dr. A. Voelcker, 

 Report on Field Experiments and Laboratory Researches on the Constituents of 

 Manures essential to Cultivated Crops ; — A. Thomson, of Banchorj', Report on 

 the Aberdeen Industrial Feeding Schools ; — On the Upper Silurians of Lesmahagow, 

 Lanarkshire ; — Alphonse Gages, Report on the Results obtained by the Mechanico- 

 Chemical Examination of Rocks and Minerals ; — William Fairbairn, Experiments to 

 determine the Efficiency of Continuous and Self-acting Brakes for Railway Trains ; — 

 Professor J. R. Kinahan, Report of Dublin Bay Dredging Committee for 1858-59 ; — 

 Rev. Baden Powell, Report on Observations of Luminous Meteors for 1858-59; — 

 Professor Owen, Report on a Series of Skulls of various Tribes of Mankind inhabiting 

 Nepal, collected, and presented to the British Museum, by Bryan H. Hodgson, Esq., 

 late Resident in Nepal, &c. &c. ; — Messrs. Maskelyne, Hadow, Hardwich, and Llewelyn, 

 Report on the Present State of our Knowledge regarding the Photographic Image; — 

 G. C. Hyndman, Report of the Belfast Dredging Committee for 1859; — James 

 Oldham, Continuation of Report of the Progress of Steam Navigation at Hull; — 

 Charles Atherton, Mercantile Steam Transport Economy as alTected by the Con- 

 sumption of Coals; — AVarren De La Rue, Report on the present state of Celestial 

 Photography in England ; — Professor Owen, on the Orders of Fossil and Recent 

 Reptilia, and their Distribution in Time ; — Balfour Stewart, on some Results of the 

 Magnetic Survey of Scotland in the years 1857 and 1858, undertaken, at the request 

 of the British Association, by the late John Welsh, Esq., F.R.S. ; — W. Fairbairn, The 

 Patent Laws: Report 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 JIagnetographs at present in operation at the Kew 

 Observatory of the British Association ; — Professor H. J. Stephen Smith, Report 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 of the THIRTIETH MEETING, at Oxford, June 

 and July 1860, Published at 15s. 



CoNTKNTS: — 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- 



