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mentary Schools ; — Report on the Regulation of Wages by means of Sliding Scales ; 

 — Report on the Endurance of Metals under repeated and varying Stresses, and tlie 

 propt-r worivinn; Stresses on Railway l^ridges and other structures subject to varying 

 loads;— Report on the Prehistoric Race in the Greek Islands; — Rcjwrt of the Com- 

 mittee for investigating and publishing reports on the pliysical characters, langnagew, 

 and industrial and social condition of the North-western Tribes of the Dominion of 

 Canada ; • Report to the Council of the Corresponding Societies Committee; — Report 

 on Electrolysis in its Pliysical and Chemical Bearings; — Sixth Report on the Vol- 

 canic Phenomena of Japan ; — Second Report en the Rate 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 ; — The Modern Development of Thomas Young's 

 Theory of Colour-vision ; — On the Explicit Form of the Complete Cubic Differential 

 Resolvent ; — On the Phenomena and Theories of Solution ;— On the Exploration of 

 the Raygill Fissure in Lothersdale, Yorkshire ; — An Accurate and Rapid Metfiod of 

 estimating the Silica in an Igneous Rook: — On some Points for the Consideration 

 of English Engineers with reference to the Design of Girder Bridges ;— The Sphere 

 and Roller Mechanism for Transmitting Power; — On Improvements in Electric 

 Safety Lamps ;— On the Birmingham, Tame, and Rea District I)raina{;e. 



Together with the Transactions of the Sections, Sir J. William Dawson's Address, 

 and Recommendations of the Association and its Committees. 



REPORT OF THE FIFTr-SEVENTH MEETING, at Manchester, 

 Augnst and September 1887, Published at £1 4». 



Contents :^-Third Report of the Committee for promoting Tidal Observations in 

 Canada; — Fourth Report on the best methods of recording the direct Intensitv of 

 Solar Radiation ; — Report of the Committee for co-operating with the Scottish 



Meteorological Society in making Meteorological O.servations on Ben Kevis ; 



Fourth Report of the Committee for co-operating with Mr. E. J. Lowe in his project 

 of establishinff on a permanent and scientific basis a Meteorological Observatorj- near 

 Chepstow; — Final Report of thu Committee for co-operating with the Meteorological 

 Society of the Mauritius in the publication of Daily Synoptic Charts of the Indian 

 Ocean for the year 1861 ; — Second Report of the Committee for inviting designs for 

 a good Differential Gravity Meter in supersession of the Pendulum ; — Report on the 

 desirability of combined action for the purpose of Translation of Forcig:n Memoirs; 

 — Report on the Action of the Silent Discharge of Electricity on Oxygen and other 

 Gases; — Report on the Influence of Silicon on the properties of Steel; — Third Report 

 on Standards of Light; — Third Report on certain Physical Constants of Solution, 

 especially tlie Expansion of Saline Solutions ; — Report on the Nature of Solution ; — 

 Report on the Bibliography of Solution ;— Report of the Committee for making 

 arrangements for a-sisting the Marine Biological Association Laboratory at Ply- 

 mouth ; — Fifth Report on the Fossil Phyllopoda of the Palaiozoic Rocks ;— Report on 

 the Migration of Birds; — Rejwrt on the Flora and Fauna of the Cameroons Moun- 

 tain ; — Report on the occupation of a Table at the Zoological Station at Naples ; — 

 Report of the Committee for aiding in the maintenance of the establishment of a 

 Marine Biological Station at Grant on, Scotland ; — Report of the Committee for con- 

 tinuing the preparation of a Report on our present knowledge of the Flora of China ; 

 — Report on the question of accurately defining the term 'British ' as applied to the 

 Marine Fauna and Flora of our Islands ; — Report of the Committee for taking steps 

 fi r the establishment of a Botanical Station at Peradeniya, Ceylon ; — Report on the 

 Provincial Museums of the United Kingdom ; — First Report on the Disappearance of 

 Native Plants from their Local Habitats ;— Report on the Mechanism of tlie Secretion 

 of Urine;— Report on the Herds of Wild Cattle in Chartley Park and other parks in 

 (Jreat Britain ;— Report on the Physiology of the Lymphatic System ;— Report on the 

 Depth of Permanently Frozen Soil in the Polar Regions, its Geographical Limits and 

 rehition to tlie present poles of greatest cold ;— Report of the Committee for co- 

 opeiatint; witli the Royal Geoeraphical Society in endeavouring to brimr before the 

 authorities of the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge the advisability of pro- 

 moting the study of Geography by establishing special Chairs for tlie purpose; 



Final Report of the Committee for considering the combination of the Ordnance and 

 Admiralty Surveys, and the production of a Bathy-hypsographical Mapof the British 

 Islands ; — Iteport on tlie teaching of Science in Elementary Schools ; — Report on the 

 Prehistoric Inhabitants of the British Islands; — Report of the Committee for editing 



