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a new Edition of ' Anthropological Notes and Queries' ; — Third Report on the North- 

 Western Tribes of the Dominion of Canada ; — Second Report on the Prehistoric Race 

 in the Greek Islands ; — Report of the Committee for constructing and issuing practical 

 Standards for use in Electrical Measurements; — Supplement to a Report on Optical 

 Theories ; — First Report on the ' Manure ' Gravels of Wexford ;— Seventh Report on 

 the Volcanic Phenomena of Japan ; — Report on the Volcanic Phenomena of Vesuvius 

 and its neighbourhood i^Third Report on the Fossil Plants of the Tertiary and 

 Secondary Beds of the United Kingdom ; — Report on the Microscopical Examination 

 of the Older Rocks of Anglesey ;— Second Report on Isomeric Naphthalene Deri- 

 vatives; — Report on the Carboniferous Flora of Halifax and its neighbourhood; — 

 Fifteenth Report on the Erratic Blocks of England, Wales, and Ireland ; — Report on 

 the best methods of ascertaining and measuring Variations in the Value of the 

 Monetary Standard ; — Second Report on the Cae Qwjn Cave, North Wales ; — Report 

 on the Regulation of Wages by means of Lists in the Cotton Industry; — Third Report 

 on the best means of comparing and reducing Magnetic Observations ;— Second 

 Report on Electrolysis in its Physical and Chemical Bearings ; — Thirteenth Report 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 ; — Report on the Higher Eocene Beds of the Isle of 

 Wight ; — Report on the Endurance of Metals under repeated and varying stresses, 

 and the proper working stresses on Railway Bridges and other structures subject to 

 varyino- loads ; — Report of the Committee for procuring Racial Photographs from the 

 Ancient Egyptian Pictures and Sculptures ; — Report of the Corresponding Societies 

 Committee ; — On the Vortex Theory of the Luminiferous ^ther ; — On the Theory of 

 Electric Endosmose and other Allied Phenomena, and on the Existence of a Sliding 

 Coefficient for a Fluid in contact with a Solid ; — Gold and Silver : their Geological 

 Distribution and their Probable Future Production; — Recent Illustrations of the 

 Theory of Rent, and their Effect on the Value of Land ; — On certain Laws relating to 

 the Regime of Rivers and Estuaries, and on the possibility of Experiments on a small 

 scale ; — Experiments on the Mechanical Equivalent of Heat on a large scale ; — On an 

 Electric Current Meter. 



Together with the Transactions of the Sections, Sir H. E. Roscoe's Address, and 

 Recommendations of the Association and its Committees. 



REPORT OF THE FIFTY-EIGHTH MEETING, at Bath, September 

 1888, Published at £i 4s. 



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

 Canada ;- -Report of the Committee for considering the desirability of introducing 

 a Uniform Nomenclature for the Fundamental Units of Mechanics, and of co- 

 operating with other bodies engaged in similar work ;— Fourth Report on the best 

 means of Comparing and Reducing Magnetic Observations ; — Fourth Report on 

 Standards of Light ; — Report of tlie Committee for co-operating with the Scottish 

 Meteorological Society in making Meteorological Observations on Ben Nevis ; — 

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

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

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

 of the Committee for inviting designs for a good Differential Gravity Meter in super- 

 session of the pendulum; — Report on the present methods of teaching Chemistry ; — ■ 

 Report on the action of Light on the Hydracids of Halogens in presence of Oxygen ; — 

 Second Report on the Nature of Solution; — Report of the Committee for making 

 arrangements for assisting the Marine Biological Association Laboratory at Plymouth ; 

 — Third Report on Isomeric Naphthalene Derivatives ; — Third Report on the Pre- 

 historic Race in the Greek Islands ; — Report on the effects of different occupations and 

 employments on the Physical Development of the Human Body ; — Sixteenth Report 

 on the Erratic Blocks of England, Wales, and Ireland ; — Report of the Committee 

 for preparing a further Report upon the Provincial Museums of the United Kingdom ; 

 — Second Report on the * Manure' Gravels of Wexford ;— Report of the Committee 

 for continuing the Researches on Food-Fishes at the St. Andrews Marine Laboratory ; 

 — Fourteenth Report 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 ; — Report on the 

 Migration of Birds ; — Report on the Flora of the Carboniferous Rocks of Lancashire 



