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Lnminons Meteors, 1871-72; — Experiments on the Surface-friction experienced by 

 a Plane moving through Water ; — Report of the Committee on the Antagonism be* 

 tween the Action of Active Substances ; — Fifth Report on Underground Tempera- 

 ture ; — Preliminary Report of the Committee on Siemens's Electrical-Resistance 

 P3rrometer : — Fourth Report on the Treatment and Utilization of Sewage ; — Interim 

 Report of the Committee on Instruments for Measuring the Speed of Ships and 

 Currents ; — Report on the Rainfall of the British Isles ; — Report of the Committee 

 on a Geographical Exploration of the Country of Moab ; — Snr I'elimination des 

 Fonctions Arbitraires; — Report on the Discovery of Fossils in certain remote parts 

 of the North-western Highlands ; — Report of the Committee on Earthquakes in 

 Scotland ; — Fourth Report on Carboniferous-Limestone Corals ; — Report of the Com- 

 mittee to consider the mode in which new Inventions and Claims for Reward in 

 respect of adopted Inventions are examined and dealt with by the different Depart- 

 ments of Government ; — Report of the Committee for discussing Observations of 

 Lunar Objects suspected of change ; — Report on the Mollusca of Europe ; — Report of 

 the Committee for investigating the Chemical Constitution and Optical Properties 

 of Essential Oils ; —Report on the practicability of establishing a 'Close Time ' for 

 the preservation of Indigenous Animals ; — Sixth Report on the Structure and Classi- 

 lication of Fossil Crustacea ;— Report of the Committee appointed to organize an Ex- 

 pedition for observing the Solar Eclipse of Dec. 12, 1871 ; — Preliminary Report of 

 a Committee on Terato-embryological Inquiries ; — Report on Recent Progress in 

 Elliptic and Hyperelliptic Functions ; — Report on Tidal Observations ; — On the 

 Brighton Waterworks ; — On Amsler's Planimeter. 



Together with the Transactions of the Sections, Dr. Carpenter's Address, and 

 Recommendations of the Association and its Committees. 



PROCEEDINGS of the FORTY-THIRD MEETING, at Bradford, 

 September 1873, Published at £1 5s. 



Contents : — Report of the Committee on Matliematical Tables ; — Observations 

 on the Application of Machinery to the Cutting of Coal in Mines ; — Concluding Re- 

 port on the Maltese Fossil Elephants ; — Report of the Committee for ascertaining 

 the Existence in different parts of the United Kingdom of any Erratic Blocks or 

 Boulders ; — Fourth Report on Earthquakes in Scotland ; — Ninth Report on Kent's 

 Cavern ; — On the Flint and Chert Implements found in Kent's Cavern ; — Report of 

 the Committee for Investigating the Chemical Constitution and Optical Properties 

 of Essential Oils ; — Report of Inquiry into the Method of making Gold-assays ; 

 — Fifth Report on the Selection and Nomenclature of Dynamical and Electrical 

 Units ; — Report of the Committee on the Labyrinthodonts of the Coal-measures ; — 

 Report of the Committee appointed to construct and print Catalogues of Spectral 

 Rays ; — Report of the Committee appointed to explore the Settle Caves; — Sixth Report 

 on Underground Temperature ; — Report on the Rainfall of the British Isles ; — Seventh 

 Report on Researches in Fossil Crustacea ; — Report on Recent Progress in Elliptic 

 and Hyperelliptic Functions ; — Report on the desirability of establishing a ' Close 

 Time ' for the preservation of Indigenous Animals ; — Report on Luminous Meteors ; 

 • -On the Visibility of the Dark Side of Venus ; — Report of the Committee for the 

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

 the Committee for collecting Fossils from North-western Scotland ; — Fifth Report 

 on the Treatment and Utilization of Sewage ; — Report of the Committee on Monthly 

 Reports of the Progress of Chemistry ;- — On the Bradford Waterworks ; — Report on 

 the possibility of Improving the Methods of Instruction in Elementary Geometry ; 

 — Interim Report of the Committee on Instruments for Measuring the Speed of 

 Ships, &c. ; — Report of the Committee for Determinating High Temperatures by 

 means of the Refrangibility of Light evolved by Fluid or Solid Substances ; — On a 

 periodicity of Cyclones and Rainfall in connexion with Sun-spot Periodicity; — Fifth 

 Report on the Structure of Carboniferous-Limestone Corals ; — Report of the Com- 

 mittee on preparing and publishing brief forms of Instructions for Travellers, 

 Ethnologists, &c. ; — Preliminary Note from the Committee on the Influence of Forests 

 on the Rainfall ; — Report of the Sub-Wealden Exploration Committee ; — Report of 

 the Committee on Machinery for obtaining a Record of the Roughness of the Sea 

 and Measurement of Waves near shore ; — Report on Science Lectures and Organi- 

 zation ; — Second Report on Science Lectures and Organization. 



Together with the Transactions of the Sections, Prof. A. W. Williamson's Address, 

 and Recommendations of the Association and its Committees. 



