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Conrents :—Report on Steam-boiler Explosions ;—Report of the Committee on the 
Hematite Iron-ores of Great Britain and Ireland ;—Report on the Sedimentary Deposits of 
the River Onny ;—Report on the Chemical Nature of Cast Iron ;—Report on the practica- 
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on Standards of Electrical Resistance ;—Sixth Report on Kent’s Cavern ;—Third Report on 
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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 
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ConTENTs :—Seventh Report on Kent’s Cayern ;—Fourth Report on Underground Tem- 
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Structure and Classification of the Fossil Crustacea ;—Report for the purpose of urging on 
Iler 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 
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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 
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the protection of Indigenous Animals ;—Report on Earthquakes in Scotland; Report on 
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Brighton, August 1872, Published at £1 4s. 
Contents :—Report on the Gaussian Constants for the Year 1829 ;—Second Supplemen- 
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Superintending the Monthly Reports of the Progress of Chemistry ;—Report of the Com- 
mittee 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 Luminous Meteors, 1871-72 ;—Experiments on the Surface- 
friction experienced by a Plane moving through water;—Report of the Committee on the 
Antagonism between the Action of Active Substances ;—Fifth Report on Underground 
Temperature ;—Preliminary Report of the Committee on Siemens’s Electrical-Resistance 
Pyrometer ;—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 Explora. 
tion of the Country of Moab ;—Sur l’élimination des Fonctions Arbitraires ;— Report on the 
