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PROCEEDINGS of the FORTY-FOURTH MEETING, at Belfast, 

 August 1874, Published at £1 5s. 



Contents: — Tenth Report on Kent's Cavern; — Report for investigating the 

 Chemical Constitution and Optical Properties of Essential Oils ; — Second Report of 

 the Sub-Wealden Exploration Committee ; — On the Recent Progress and Present 

 State of Sj'Stematic Botany ; — Report of the Committee for investigating the Nature 

 of Intestinal Secretion ; — Report of the Committee on the Teaching of Physics in 

 Schools ; — Preliminary Report for investigating Isomeric Cresols and their Deriva- 

 tives; — Third Report of the Committee for collecting Fossils from localities in 

 North-western Scotland; — Report on the Rainfall of the British Isles ; — On the Bel- 

 fast Harbour ; — Report of Inquiry into the Method of making Gold-assays ; — Report 

 of a Committee on Experiments to determine the Thermal Conductivities of certain 

 Rocks ; — Second Report on the Exploration of the Settle Caves ; — On the Industrial 

 uses of the Upper Bann River ; — Report of the Committee on the Structure and 

 Classification of the Labyrinthodont ; — Second Report of the Committee for record- 

 ing the position, height above the sea, lithological characters, size, and origin of the 

 Erratic Blocks of England and Wales, &c. ; — Sixth Report on the Treatment and 

 Utilization of Sewage ; — Report on the Anthropological Notes and Queries for the 

 use of Travellers ; — On Cyclone and Rainfall Periodicities ; — Fifth Report on Earth- 

 quakes in Scotland ; — Report of the Committee appointed to prepare and print 

 Tables of Wave-numbers ; — Report of the Committee for testing the new P3rrometer 

 of Mr. Siemens ; — Report to the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty on Experi- 

 ments for the Determination of the Frictional Resistance of Water on a Surface, 

 tic. ; — Second Report for the Selection and Nomenclature of Dynamical and Elec- 

 trical Units; — On Instruments for measuring the Speed of Ships; — Report of the 

 Committee on the possibility of establishing a ' Close Time ' for the Protection -of 

 Indigenous Animals ; — Report of the Committee to inquire into the economic effects 

 of Combinations of Labourers and Capitalists ; — Preliminary Report on Dredging on 

 the Coasts of Durham and North Yorkshire ; — Report on Luminous Meteors ; — Re- 

 port on the best means of providing for a Uniformity of Weights and Measures. 



Together with the Transactions of the Sections, Prof. John Tyndall's Address, and 

 Recommendations of the Association and its Committees. 



PROCEEDINGS of the FORTY-FIFTH MEETING, at Bristol, 

 August 1876, Published at £1 6s. 



Contents : — Eleventh. Report on Kent's Cavern ;— Seventh Report on Under- 

 ground Temperature ;— Report on the Zoological Station at Naples ;— Report of a 

 Committee appointed to inquire into the Methods employed in the Estimation of 

 Potash and Phosphoric Acid in Commercial Products ; — Report on the present state 

 of our Knowledge of the Crustacea ;— Second Report on the Thermal Conduc- 

 tivities of certain Rocks ;— Preliminary Report of the Committee for extending the 

 Observations on the Specific Volumes of Liquids ;— Sixth Report on Earthquakes 

 in Scotland ; — Seventh Report on the Treatment and Utilization of Sewage ; — Re- 

 port of the Committee for furthering the Palestine Explorations ;— Third Report of 

 the Committee for recording the position, height above the sea, lithological 

 characters, size, and origin of the Erratic Blocks of England and Wales, &c. ; — 

 Report of the Rainfall Committee ;— Report of the Committee for investigating 

 Isomeric Cresols and their Derivatives; — Report of the Committee for investigating 

 the Circulation of the Underground Waters in the New Red Sandstone and Permian 

 Formations of England ;— On the Steering of Screw- St earners ;— Second Report of 

 the Committee on Combinations of Capital and Labour ;— Report on the Method of 

 making Gold-assays;— Eighth Report on Underground Temperature ;— Tides in the 

 River Mersey ;~Sixth Report of the Committee on the Structure of Carboniferous 

 Corals ;— Report of the Committee appointed to explore the Settle Caves ;— On the 

 River Avon (Bristol), its Drainage-Area, &c. ;— Report of the Committee on the 

 possibility of establishing a ' Close Time ' for the Protection of Indigenous 

 Animals ; — Report of the Committee appointed to superintend the Publication of 

 the Monthly Reports of the Progress of Chemistry ;— Report on Dredging off the 

 Coasts of Durham and North Yorkshire in 1874 ;— Report on Luminous Meteors ;— On 

 the Analytical Forms called Trees ;— Report of the Committee on Mathematical 



