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mittee to superintend tlie reduction of Meteorological Observations; — Report of a Com- 

 mittee for revising the Nomenclature of tlie Stars ; — Report of a Committee for obtaining In- 

 struments and Registers to record Shoclcs and Eartliquakes in Scotland and Ireland ; — Report of 

 a Committee on the Preservation of Vegetative Powers in Seeds ; — Dr. Hodgkin, on Inquiries 

 into the Races of Man ; — Report of the Committee appointed to report how far the Desiderata 

 in our knowledge of the Condition of the Upper Strata of the Atmosphere may be supplied by- 

 means of Ascents in Balloons or otherwise, to ascertain the probable expense of such Experi- 

 ments, and to draw up Directions for Observers in sucli circumstances ; — R. Owen, Report 

 on British Fossil Reptiles ; — Reports on the Determination of the Mean Value of Railway 

 Constants ; — D. Lardner, LL.D., Second and concluding Report on the Determination of the 

 Mean Value of Railway Constants; — E. Woods, Report on Railway Constants; — Report of a 

 Committee on the Construction of a Constant Indicator for Steam-Engines. 



Together with the Transactions of the Sections, Prof. Whevvell's Address, and Recommen- 

 dations of the Association and its Committees. 



PROCEEDINGS of the TWELFTH MEETING, at Manchester, 

 1842, Puhlished at lOs. 6d. 



Contents : — Report of the Committee appointed to conduct the cooperation of the British 

 Association in the System of Simultaneous Magnetical and Meteorological Observations; — 

 J. Richardson, M.D., Report on the present State of the Ichthyology of New Zealand ; — 

 W. S. Harris, Report on the Progress of Meteorological Observations at Plymouth ; — Second 

 Report of a Committee appointed to make Experiments on the Growth and Vitality of Seeds ; 

 — C. Vignoles, Report of the Committee on Railway Sections ; — Report of the Committee 

 for the Preservation of Animal and Vegetable Substances ; — Lyon Playfair,';M.D., Abstract 

 of Prof. Liebig's Report on Organic Chemistry applied to Physiology and Pathology; — 

 R. Owen, Report on the British Fossil Mammalia, Parti.; — R. Hunt, Researches on the 

 Influence of Light on the Germination of Seeds and the Growth of Plants ; — L. Agassiz, Report 

 on the Fossil Fishes of the Devonian System or Old Red Sandstone ; — W. Fairbairn, Ap- 

 pendix to a Report on the Strength and other Properties of Cast Iron obtained from the Hot 

 and Cold Blast; — D. Milne, Report of the Committee for Registering Shocks of Earthquakes 

 in Great Britain ; — Report of a Committee on the construction of a Constant Indicator for 

 Steam-Engines, and for the determination of the Velocity of the Piston of the Self-acting En- 

 gine at different periods of the Stroke ; — J. S. Russell, Report of a Committee on the Form of 

 Ships ; — Report of a Committee appointed "to consider of the Rules by which the Nomencla- 

 ture of Zoology may be established on a uniform and permanent basis;" — Report of a Com- 

 mittee on the Vital Statistics of large Towns in Scotland; — Provisional Reports, and Notices 

 of Progress in special Researches entrusted to Committees and Individuals. 



Together with the Transactions of the Sections, Lord Francis Egerton's Address, and Re- 

 commendations of the Association and its Committees. 



PROCEEDINGS of the THIRTEENTH MEETING, at Cork, 

 1813, Published at 12s. 



Contents: — Robert Mallet, Third Report upon the Action of Air and Water, whether 

 fresh or salt, clear or foul, and at Various Temperatures, upon Cast Iron, Wrought Iron, and 

 gtgel; — Report of the Committee appointed to conduct the cooperation of the British As- 

 sociation in the System of Simultaneous Magnetical and Meteorological Observations ; — Sir 

 J. F. W. Herschel, Bart., Report of the Committee appointed for the Reduction of Meteoro- 

 logical Observations; — Report of the Committee appointed for Experiments on Steam- 

 Engines ; — Report of the Committee appointed to continue their Experiments on the Vitality 

 of Seeds ; — J. S. Russell, Report of a Series of Observations on the Tides of the Frith of 

 Forth and the East Coast of Scotland; — J. S, Russell, Notice of a Report of the Committee 

 on the Form of Ships; — J. Blake, Report on the Physiological Action of Medicines; — Report 

 of the Committee on Zoological Nomenclature ; — Report of the Committee for Registering 

 the Shocks of Earthquakes, and making such Meteorological Observations as may appear to 

 them desirable ; — Report of the Committee for conducting Experiments with Captive Balloons; 

 — Prof. Wheatstone, Appendix to the Report; — Report of the Committee for the Translation 

 and Publication of Foreign Scientific Memoirs; — C. W. Peach, on the Habits of the Marine 

 Testacea ; — E, Forbes, Report on the Mollusca and Radiata of the JEgean Sea, and on their 

 distribution, considered as bearing on Geology; — L. Agassiz, Synoptical Table of British 

 Fossil Fishes, arranged in the order of the Geological Formations ; — R. Owen, Report on the 

 British Fossil Mammalia, Part II.; — E. W. Binney, Report on the excavation made at the 

 junction of the Lower New Red Sandstone With the Coal Measures at Collyhurst ; — W. 



