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^Fifth Eeport on the Selection and Nomenclature of Dynamical and Electrical 



Units ; Report of the Committee on the Labyrinthodonts of the Coal-measures ; — 



Keport 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 diiferent 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 ;— On 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 connection with Sunspot Periodicity ; — Fifth 

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

 mittee on preparing and publishing brief forms of Instructions for Travellers, 

 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. 



PROCEEDINGS op the FORTY-FOURTH MEETING, at Belfast, 

 August 1874, Published at £1 5s. 



Contents: — Tenth Report on Kent's Cavern; — Report for investigating the 

 Chemical Constitution and Optical Properties of Essential Oils ;— Second Report of 

 the Sub-Wealden Exploration Committee ;— On the Recent Progress and Present 

 State of Systematic Botany ;— Eeport of the Committee for investigating the Nature 

 of Intestinal Secretion ;— Report of the Committee on the Teaching of Physics in 

 Schools ; Preliminary Report for investigating Isomeric Cresols and their Deriva- 

 tives ;— Third Report of the Committee for collecting Fossils from localities in 

 North- western Scotland ;— Report on the Rainfall of the British Isles ;— On the Bel- 

 fast Harbour ;— Report of Inquiry into the Method of making Gold-assays ;— Report 

 of a Committee on Experiments to determine the Thermal Conductivities of certain 

 Rocks ;— Second Eeport on the Exploration of the Settle Caves ;— On the Industrial 

 uses of the Upper Bann Eiver ; — Report of the Committee on the Structure and 

 Classification of the Labyrinthodonts ;— Second Report of the Committee for record- 

 ino- the position, height above the sea, lithological characters, size, and origin of the 

 Erratic Blocks of England and Wales, &c. ;— Sixth Report on the Treatment and 

 Utilization of Sewage ;— Report on the Anthropological Notes and Queries for the 

 use of Travellers ;— On Cyclone and Rainfall Periodicities ;— Fifth Eeport on Earth- 

 quakes in Scotland ;— Report of the Committee appointed to prepare and print 

 Tables of Wave-numbers ;— Report of the Committee for testing the new Pyrometer 

 of Mr. Siemens ; — Report to the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty on Experi- 

 ments'for the Determination of the Frictional Resistance of Water on a Surface 

 &c. ;— Second Report for the Selection and Nomenclature of Dynamical and Elec- 

 trical Units ;— On Instruments for measuring the Speed of Ships ;— Report of the 

 Committee on the possibility of establishing a ' Close Time ' for the Protection 

 of Indigenous Animals ;— Report of the Committee to inquire into the economic 

 effects of Combinations of Labourers and Capitalists ;— Preliminary Report on 

 Dredging on the Coasts of Durham and North Yorkshire ;— Report on Luminous 

 Meteors ;— Eeport on the best means of providing for a Uniformity of Weights and 



Together with the Transactions of the Sections, Prof. John Tyndall's Address, and 

 Recommendations of the Association and its Committees. 



