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Collapse of Glass Globes and Cylinders ;— Dr. E. Perceval Wriglit and Prof. J. Reay Greene, 

 Report on the Marine Fauna of the South and West Coasts of Ireland; — Prof. J. Thomson, on 

 Experiments on the Measurement of Water by Triangular Notches in Weir Boards; — Major- 

 General Sabine, Report of the Committee on the Magnetic Survey of Great Britain ; — Michael 

 Connal and William Keddie, Report on Animal, Vegetable, and Mineral Substances imported 

 from Foreign Countries into the Clyde (including the Ports of Glasgow, Greenock, and Port 

 Glasgow) in the years 1853, 1854, 1855, 1855, and 1857 ;— Report of the Committee on Ship- 

 ping Statistics;— Rev. H. Lloyd, D.D., Notice of the Instruments employed in the Mag- 

 netic Survey of Ireland, with some of the Results; — Prof. J. R. Kinahan, Report of Dublin 

 Dredging Committee, appointed 1857-58 ;— Prof. .1. R. Kinahan, Report on Crustacea of Dub- 

 lin District; — Andrew Henderson, on River Steamers, their Form, Construction, and Fittings, 

 with reference to the necessity for improving the present means of Sliallow-Water Navigation 

 on the Rivers of British India;— George C. Hyndman, Report of the Belfast Dredging Com- 

 tnittee ; — Appendix to Mr. Vignoles's paper " On the Adaptation of Suspension Bridges to sus- 

 tain tlie passage of Railway Trains ;"— Report of the Joint Committee of the Royal Society and 

 tlie British Association, for procuring a continuance of the Magnetic and Meteorological Ob- 

 servatories; — R. Becklcy, Description of a Self-recording Anemometer. 



Together with the Transactions of the Sections, Prof. Owen's Address, and Recommenda- 

 tions of the Association and its Committees. 



PROCEEDINGS of the TWENTY-NINTH MEETING, at Aberdeen, 

 September 1859, Published at \5s. 



Contents : — George C. Foster, Preliminary Report on the Recent Progress and Present 

 State of Organic Chemistry; — Professor Buckman, Report on the Growtli of Plants in the 

 Garden of the Royal Agricultural College, Cirencester; — Dr. A. Voelcker, Report on Field 

 Experiments and Laboratory Researches on the Constituents of Manures essential to cultivated 

 Crops ; — A. Thomson, Esq., of Banchory, Report on the Aberdeen Industrial Feeding Schools; 

 — On the Upper Silurians of Lesmahago, Lanarkshire ; — Alphonse Gages, Report on the Re- 

 sults obtained by the Mechanico-Cheniical Examination of Rocks and Minerals ; — William 

 Fairbairn, Experiments to determine the Efliciency of Continuous and Self-acting Breaks for 

 Railway Trains; — Professor J. R. Kinahan, Report of Dublin Bay Dredging Committee for 

 1858-59; — Rev. Baden Powell, Report on Observations of Luminous Meteors for 1858-59; 

 — Professor Owen, Report on a Series of Skulls of various Tribes of M;mkind inhabiting 

 Nepal, collected, and presented to the British Museum, by Bryan H. Hodgson, Esq., lale Re- 

 sident in Nepal, &c. &c. ; — Messrs. Maskelyne, Iladow, Hardwich, and Llewelyn, Report on 

 the Present State of our Knowledge regarding the Photographic Image ; — G. C. Hyndman, 

 Report of the Belfast Dredging Committee for 1859 ; — James Oldham, Continuation of Report 

 of the Progress of Steam Navigation at Hull; — Charles Atberton, Mercantile Steam Trans- 

 port Economy as afFectcd by the Consumption of Coals; — Warren de la Rue, Repot t on the 

 present state of Celestial Photography in England; — Professor Owen, on the Orders of Fossil 

 and Recent Reptilia, and tlieir Distribution in Time ; — Balfour Stewart, on some Results of the 

 Magnetic Survey of Scotland in tlie years 1857 and 1858, undertaken, at the request of the 

 British Association, by the late John Welsh, Esq., F.R.S. ;— W. Fairbairn, The Patent Laws : 

 Report of Committee on the Patent Laws; — J. Park Harrison, Lunar Influence on the Tem- 

 perature of the Air; — Balfour Stewart, an Account of the Construction of the Self-recording 

 Magnetographs at present in operation at the Kew Observatory of the British Association; — 

 Prof. H. J. Stephen Smith, Report on the Theory of Numbers, Part I. ; — Report of the 

 Committee on Steamship performance; — Report of the Proceedings of the Balloon Committee 

 of the British Association appointed at the INIeeting at Leeds ; — Prof. William K. Sullivan, 

 Preliminary Report on the Solubility of Salts at Temperatures above 100° Cent., and on the 

 Mutual Action of Salts in Solution. 



Together with the Transactions of the Sections, Prince Albert's Address, and Recommenda- 

 tions of the Association and its Committees. 



PROCEEDINGS of the THIRTIETH MEETING, at Oxford, Juno 



and July I860, Published at \5s. 



Contents: — James Glaisher, Report on Observations of Luminous Meteors, 1S59-G0; — 

 J. R. Kinahan, Report of Dublin Bay Dredging Committee ;— Rev. J. Anderson, Report on 

 the Excavations in Dura Den; — Professor Buckman, Report on the Experimental Plots in the 

 Botanical Garden of the Royal Agricultural College, Cirencester ; — Rev. R. Walker, Report of 

 the Committee on Balloon Ascents; — Prof. W. Thomson, Report of Committee appointed to 

 prepare a Self-recording Atmospheric Electrometer for Kew, and Portable Apparatus for ob- 

 serving Atmospheric Electricity ; — William Fairbairn, E.xperiments to determine the Effect of 



