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PROCEEDINGS of the FORTY-FIFTH MEETING, at Bristol, 

 August 1875, Published at £1 6s. (Out of Print.) 



Contents: — Eleventh Report on Kent's Cavern; — Seventh Ileport on Under- 

 ground Temperature; — Report on tl)e Zoological Station at Naples; — Report of a 

 Committee appointed to inquire into the Methods ensployed in the Estimation of 

 Votash and Piiosphoric Acid in Commercial Products ; — Report on the present state 

 of our Knowledge of the Crustacea; — Second Report on the Thermal Conduc- 

 tivities of certain Rocks ; — Preliminary Report of the Committee for extending the 

 Observations on tiie Specific Volumes of Liquids; — Sixth Report on Earthquakes 

 in Scotland; — Seventh Report on the Treatment and Utilization of Sewage;— Re- 

 port of the Committt'c for furthering the Palestine Explorations ;— Third Report of 

 the Committee for recording the position, height above the sea, lithological 

 characters, size, and origin of the Erratic Blocks of England and Wales, ic. ; — 

 Report of the Rainfall Committee; — Report of the Committee for investigating 

 Isomeric Cresols and their Derivatives; — Report of the Committee for investigating 

 the Circulation of the Undei^ound Waters in the New Red Sandstone and Permian 

 Formations of England ; — On the Steering of Screw-Steamers ; — Second Report of 

 the Committee on Combinations of Capital and Labour; — Report on the Method of 

 making Gold-assays ; — Eighth Report on Underground Temperature ;— Tides in the 

 River Mersey ; — Sixth Report of the Committee on the Structure of Carboniferous 

 Corals ;— Report of the Committee appointed to explore the Settle Caves ; — On 

 the River Avon (Bristol), its Drainage-Area, &c. ; — Report of the Committee op 

 the possibility of establishing a ' Close Time ' for the Protection of Indigenous 

 Animals; — Report of the Committee appointed to superintend the Publication of 

 tlie Moiithlj' Reports of the Progress of Chemistry ;— Report on Dredging off the 

 Coasts of Durham and North Yorkshire in 1874 ; — Report on Luminous Meteors ; — On 

 the Analytical Forms called Trees ;— Report of the 'Committee on Mathematical 

 Tables; — Report of the Committee on Mathematical Notation and Printing; — Second 

 Report of the Committee for investigating Intestinal Secretion; — Third Report of 

 the Sub-Wealden Exploration Committee. 



Together with the Transactions of the Sections, Sir John Hawkshaw"s Address, 

 and Recommendations of the Association and its Committees. 



PROCEEDINGS of the FORTY-SIXTH MEETING, at Glasgow, 

 September 1876, Published at £1 5s. 



Contents: — Twelfth Report on Kent's Cavern; — Report on Improving the 

 ^Methods of Instruction in Elementarj- Geometry; — Results of a Comparison of the 

 Rritish-Association Units of Electrical Resistance; — Third Report on tlie Thermal 

 Conductivities of certain Rocks; — Report of the Committee on the practicability of 

 udopting a Common Measure of Value in the Assessment of Direct Taxation ; — 

 Report of the Committee for testing experimentally Ohm's Law; — Report of the 

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

 Indigenous Animals; — Report of the Committee on the Effect of Propellers on the 

 Steering of Vessels; — On the Investigation of th.e Steering Qualities of Ships; — 

 Seventh Report on Earthquakes in Scotland; — Report on the present state of our 

 Knowledge of the Crustacea; — Second Report of tlie Committee for investigating 

 the Circulation of the Underground Waters in the New Red Sandstone and Permian 

 Formations of England ; — Fourth Report of the Committee on the Erratic Blocks of 

 England and Wales, &c. ; — Fourth Report of the Committee on the Exploration of 

 tlie Settle Caves (Victoria Cave); — Report on Oliservations of Luminous Meteors, 

 1 875-76 ;— Report on the Rainfall of the IMtish Isles, 1875-76 ;— Ninth Report on 

 Underground Temperature; — Nitrous Oxide in the Gaseous and Liquid States; — 

 Eighth Report on the Treatment and Utilization of Sewage ; — Improved Investiga- 

 tions on the Flow of Water through Orifices, with Objections to the modes of treat- 

 ment commonly adopted ; — Report of the Anthropometric Committee ; — On Cyclone 

 and Rainfall Periodicities in connection with the Sun-spot Periodicity; — Report of 

 the Committee for determining the Jlechanical Equivalent of Heat ; — Report of the 

 Committee on Tidal Observations;— Thi.-d Report of the Committee on the Condi- 

 tions of Intestinal Secretion and Movement ;— Report of the Committee for collect- 

 ing and suggesting subjects for Chemical Research. 



Together with the Transactions of the Sections, Dr. T. Andrews's Address, and 

 Recommendations of the Association and its Committees. 



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