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PROCEEDINGS of the FORTIETH MEETING, at Liverpool, Sep. 

 tember 1870, Published at 18s. 



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

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

 Deposits of the River Onny ; — Report on tlie Chemical Nature of Cast Iron ; — Re- 

 port on the practicability of establishing a 'Close Time' for the protection of 

 Indigenous Animals ; — Report on Standards of Electrical Resistance ; — Sixth Report 

 on Kent's Cavern ; — 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, Propulsion, and Sea-going Qualities of 

 Ships ; — Report on Earthquakes in Scotland ; — Report on the Treatment and Utili- 

 zation of Sewage ; — Report on Observations of Luminous Meteors, 1869-70 ; — Report 

 on Recent Progress in Elliptic and Hyperelliptic Functions; — Report on Tidal Ob- 

 servations ; — 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 Re- 

 commendations 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 Under- 

 ground Temperature ; — Report on Observations of Luminous Meteors, 1870-71 ; — 

 Fifth Report on the Structure and Classitication of the Fossil Crustacea ; — Report 

 of the Committee appointed 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 of the Committee appointed 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 Com- 

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

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

 port on the Treatment and Utilization of Sewage ; — Report on promoting the Foun- 

 dation of Zoological Stations in different parts of the World ; — Preliminary Report 

 on the Thermal Equivalents of the Oxides of Chlorine ; - Report on the practi- 

 cability of establishing a ' Close Time ' for the protection of Indigenous 

 Animals ; — Report on Earthquakes in Scotland ; — Report on the best means of pro- 

 viding for a Uniformity of Weights and Measures ; — Report on Tidal Observations. 



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

 *nd Recommendations of the Association and its Committees. 



PROCEEDINGS of the FORTY-SECOND MEETING, at Brighton, 

 August 1872, Published at £1 4s. 



Contents : — Report on the Gaussian Constants for the Year 1829 ; — Second Sup- 

 plementary Report on the Extinct Birds of the Mascarene Islands ; — Report of the 

 Committee for Superintending the Monthly Reports of the Progress of Chemistry ; — 

 Report of the Committee on the best means of providing for a Uniformity of 

 Weights and Measures ; — Eighth Report on Kent's Cavern ; — Report on promoting the 

 Foundation of Zoological Stations in different parts of the World ; — Fourth Report 

 on the Fauna of South Devon ; — Preliminary Report of the Committee appointed to 

 Construct and Print Catalogues of Spectral Rays arranged upon a Scale of Wave- 

 numbers ; — Third Report on Steam- Boiler Explosions; — Report on Observations of 



