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PROCEEDINGS of the FORTIETH MEETING, at Liverpool, Septem- 

 ber 1870, Published at 18s. 



Contents : — Report on Steam-boiler Explosions ; — Report of the Committee on the 

 Haematite Iron-ores of Great Britain and Ireland; — Report on the Sedimentary Deposits of 

 the River Onny ; — Report on the themical Nature of Cast Iron ; — Report on the practica- 

 bility of establishing " A Close Time" for the protection of Indigenous Animals ; — Report 

 on Standards of Electrical Resistance; — Sixth Report on Kent's Cavern j — Third Report on 

 Underground Temperature; — Second Report of the Committee appointed to get cut and 

 prepared Sections of Mountain- Limestone Corals; — Second Report on the Stability, Pro- 

 pulsion, and Sea-going Qualities of Ships; — Report on Earthquakes in Scotland; — Report 

 on the Treatment and Utilization of Sewage ; — Report on Observations of Luminous Me- 

 teors, 1869-70; — Report on Recent Progress in Elliptic and Hyperelliptic Functions; — 

 Report on Tidal Observations ; — On a new Steam-power Meter ; — Report on the Action of 

 the Methyl and Allied Series ; — Report of the Rainfall Committee; — Report on the Heat 

 generated in the Blood in the process of Arterialization ; — Report on the best means of 

 providing for Uniformity of Weights and Measures. 



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

 dations of the Association and its Committees. 



PROCEEDINGS of the FORTY-FIRST MEETING, at Edinburgh, 



August 1871, Published at 16s. 



Contents : — Seventh Report on Kent's Cavern ; — Fourth Report on Underground Tem- 

 perature ; — Report on Observations of Luminous Meteors, 1870-71 ; — Fifth Report on the 

 Structure and Classification of the Fossil Crustacea ; — Report for the purpose of urging on 

 Her Majesty's Government the expediency of arranging and tabulating the results of the 

 approaching Census in the three several parts of the United Kingdom in such a manner as 

 to admit of ready and effective comparison ; — Report for the purpose of Superintending the 

 publication of Abstracts of Chemical papers ; — Report of the Committee for discussing 

 Observations of Lunar Objects suspected of change ; — Second Provisional Report on the 

 Thermal Conductivity of Metals ; — Report on the Rainfall of the British Isles ; — Third 

 Report on the British Fossil Corals ; — Report on the Heat generated in the Blood during the 

 process of Arterialization ; — Report of the Committee appointed to consider the subject of 

 physiological Experimentation; — Report on the Physiological Action of Organic Chemical 

 Compounds ; — Report of the Committee appointed to get cut and prepared Sections of 

 Mountain-Limestone Corals ; — Second Report on Steam-Boiler Explosions ; — Report on the 

 Treatment and Utilization of Sewage; — Report on promoting the Foundation of Zoological 

 Stations in different parts of the World ; — Preliminary Report on the Thermal Equivalents of 

 the Oxides of Chlorine ; — Report on the practicability of establishing a " Close Time " for 

 the protection of Indigenous Animals ; — Report on Earthquakes in Scotland ; Report on 

 the best means of providing for a Uniformity of Weights and Measures ; — Report on Tidal 

 Observations. 



Together with the Transactions of the Sections, Sir William Thomson's Address, and 

 Recommendations of the Association and its Committees. 



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