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Erratic Blocks of England, Wales, and Ireland ; — Ninth Eeport on the Circulation of 

 the Underground Waters in the Permeable Formations of England, and the Quality 

 and Quantity of the Water supplied to various Towns and Districts from these For- 

 mations ; — Report on the Fossil Plants of Halifax ;— Fourth Report on Fossil 

 Polj^zoa ;— Fourth Report on the Tertiarj' Flora of the North of Ireland; — Report on 

 the Earthquake Phenomena of Japan ; — Report on the Fossil Phyllopoda of the 

 Palaeozoic Rocks ; — Third Report on the Natural History of Timor Laut ; — Eeport on 

 the Natural History of Socotra and the adjacent Highlands of Arabia and Somali 

 Land ; — Report on the Exploration of Kilima-njaro and the adjoining mountains of 

 Eastern Equatorial Africa ; — Report on the Migration of Birds ; — Report on the 

 Maintenance of the Scottish Zoological Station ; — Report on the Occupation of a Table 

 at the Zoological Station at Naples ; — Report on the Influence of Bodily Exercise on 

 the Elimination of Nitrogen; — Report on the Ancient Earthwork in Epping Forest, 

 known as the ' Loughton ' or ' Cowper's ' Camp ; — Final Report of the Anthropometric 

 Committee ; — Report of the Committee for defining the Facial Characteristics of the 

 Races and Principal Crosses in the British Isles, and obtaining Illustrative Photo- 

 graphs ; — Report on the Survey of Eastern Palestine; — Report on the workings of 

 the proposed revised New Code, and of other legislation affecting the teaching 

 of Science in Elementary Schools ; — Report on Patent Legislation ; — Report of the 

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

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

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

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

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

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

 Eecommendations of the Association and its Committees. 



REPORT OF THE FIFTY-FOURTH MEETING, at Montreal, 

 August and September, 1884, Puhlished at \l. 4s. 



Contents : — Eeport 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 ; — Eeport of the Committee for considering the best methods of 

 recording the direct intensity of Solar Eadiation ; — Eeport of the Committee for 

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

 Eeport 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 1801 ; — Second Eeport on the Harmonic Analysis of Tidal 

 Observations ; — Eeport 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 Nomenclature: — Report on Isomeric Naphtha- 

 lene Derivatives ;— Second Eeport on the Fossil Phyllopoda of the Palfeozoic Rocks ; — 

 Tenth Eeport 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 Eeport on Fossil 

 Polyzoa; — Twelfth Eeport on the Erratic Blocks of England, Wales, and Ireland ; — 

 Eeport upon the National Geological Surveys of Europe; — Eeport on the Eate 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 ; — Eeport on the Exploration 

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

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

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

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

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

 of Invertebrata ; — Eeport on the Exploration of Kilima-njaro, and the adjoining 

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

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

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



