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rEOCEEDTXGS of the FORTIETH MEETIKG, at Liverpool, Septem- 

 ber 1870, Published at 18s. 



Contents: — Eeport on Steam-boiler Explosiors ; — Beport of the Con^niittee on tlie 

 Haematite Iron-ores of Great Britain and Irelaiui ; — Kei'ort on the Sedimentary DfjOMts of 

 tlie River Onny; — Peport on the t lieniical Nature of Cast Iron; — Report on the i>raclica- 

 bility of cstahlishing " A Close Time " for the protection of Iridigcnrns Animals ; — Report 

 on Standards of Electrical Resistance; — Sixth Repoit on Kent's Cavern ; — Third Rejjort < n 

 Underground Ttmperature;— Second Report of the Committee 8pi>ointed to get cut and 

 prepared Sections of Mountain-Limestone Corals; — Second Report on the Stability, F'lo- 

 pulsion, and Sea-going Qualities of Ships ;— Report on Earthquskes in Scotland; — Re]iort 

 on the Treatment and Utilization of Sewage; — Report on Ohservatiotis of Luminous Me- 

 teors, 1869-70 ;— Report on Recent Progress in Elliptic and Hypeieliiptic Functions; — 

 Report on Tidal Observations;— On a new Steam-power Meter ;—r>eport 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 ; — Heport on the best means of 

 providing for Uniformity of Weights and Measures. 



Together with the Transactions of the Sections, Prof. Huxley's Address, and Recoraraen- 

 dations 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 Underground Tem- 

 perature; — Report on Observations of Luminous Meteors, 1870-71 ; — Fifth Report on the 

 Structure and Classification of the Fossil Crustacea; — Report for the purpose of ur-^ing on 

 Her Majesty's Government the expediency of arranging and tabulating the results of the 

 api)roaching Census in the three several parts of the United Kingdom in such a manner as 

 to admit of ready and effective comparison ; — Report for the purpose of Superintending the 

 publication of Abstracts of Chemical papers; — Report of the Committee for discussing 

 Observations of Lunar Objects susjjected of change ; — Second Provisional Report on tiie 



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 subjict of 

 physiological Experimentation;— Report on the Physiological Action of Organic Clieniiciil 

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

 Mountain-Limestone Corals; — Second Report on Steam-Boi!er Explosions; — Report on the 

 Treatment and Utilization of Sewage; — Report on promoting the Foundation of Zoolosita! 

 Stations in different parts of the World ; — Preliminary Report on i! e Thermal Equivalents cf 

 the Oxides of Chlorine ; — Report on the practicaliihty of establishing a " Close Tinic " for 

 the protection of Indigenous Animals : — Report on Earthquakes in Scotland ; Report on 

 the best means of providing. for a Uniformity of Weights and Measures ; — Report on Tidal 

 Observations. 



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

 Recommendations of the Association and its Committees. 



PROCEEDINGS or the FORTY -SECOND MEETING, at 

 Brighton, August 1872, Fuhlished at £1 4s. 



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

 tary 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 Com- 



mittee on the best means of providing for a Uniformity of Weights and Measures ; Eighth 



Re];ort on Kent's Cavern ; — Repoit on promoting the Foundation of Zoological Stations in 

 different parts of the World; — Fourth heport on the Fauna of South Devon ; — Prehminaiv 

 Report of the Committee apjiointed to Construct and Print Catalogues of Spectral Rav's 

 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-Resisiance 

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

 ot the Committee on Instruments for Measuring the Speed of Ships and Currents ;— Report 

 on the Rainfall of tl e British Isles; — Report of the Committee on a Gcograj h.ical Exnleia- 

 tiou of the Country of Moab; — Sur relimination des Fonctioiis Arbitraircs ;— Report on tl.e 



