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Experimentation; — llepoit on the Physiological Action of Organic Chemical Com- 

 pounds; — Report of the Committee appointed to get cut and prepared Sections of 

 Mountain-Limestone Corals; — Second lleport on Steam-Boiler Explosions; — Re- 

 port on the Treatment and Utilization of Sewage ; — Report on promoting the Foun- 

 dation of Zoological Stations in different parts of the World ; — Preliminary Report 

 on the Tliermal Equivalents of the Oxides of Chlorine ; — Report on tlie practica- 

 bility of establishing a ' Close Time ' for the protection of Indigenous Animals ; 

 — Report on Earthquakes in Scotland; — Report on the best means of providing for 

 a Uniformity of Weights and Measures ; — Report on Tidal Observations. 



Togetlier with the Transactions of the Sections, Sir William Thomson's Address, 

 and Recommendations of the Association and its Committees. 



PROCEEDINGS of the FORTY-SECOND MEETING, at Brighton, 

 August 1872, Puhlished at £1 4«. 



Contents : — Report on the Gaussian Constants for the Year 1829 ; — Second Sup- 

 plementary Report on the Extinct Birds of the Mascarene Islands ; — Report of the 

 Committee for Superintending the Monthly Reports of the Progress of Chemistry ; — 

 Report of the Committee on the best means of providing for a Uniformity of 

 Weights and Measures ; — Eighth Report on Kent's Cavern ; — Report on promoting the 

 Foundation of Zoological Stations in different parts of the World ; — Fourth Report 

 on the Fauna of South Devon ; — Preliminary Report of the Committee appointed to 

 Construct and Print Catalogues of Spectral Rays arranged upon a Scale of Wave- 

 numbers ; — Third Report on Steam-Boiler Explosions ; — Report on Observations of 

 Luminous Meteors, 1871-72 ; — Experiments on the Surface-friction experienced by 

 a Plane moving through Water ; — Report of the Committee on the Antagonism be- 

 tween the Action of Active Substances ; — Fifth Report on Underground Tempera- 

 ture ; — Preliminary Report of the Committee on Siemens's Electrical-Resistance 

 Pyrometer; — Fourth Report on the Treatment and Utilization of Sewage ;— Interim 

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

 Currents ; — Report on the Rainfall of the British Isles ; — Report of the Committee 

 on a Geographical Exploration of the Country of Moab ; — Sur I'filimination des 

 Fonctions Arbitraires ;^Report on the Discovery of Fossils in certain remote parts 

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

 Scotland ; — Fourth 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 5s. 



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

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

 port on the Maltese Fossil Elephants ; — Report of the Committee for ascertaining 

 the Existence in different parts of the United Kingdom of any Erratic Blocks or 

 Boulders; — Foiirth 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 tlie Method of making Gold-assays; 



