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BRITISH ASSOCIATION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT 
OF SCIENCE. 
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Associates for the Meeting in 1890 may obtain the Volume for the Year at two-thirds 
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REPORT or rue FIFTY-EIGHTH MEETING, at Bath, September 
1888, Published at £1 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 the 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 
1890. 3uU 
