184 RT2P0RT — 1875. 



A drawing of this work is shown with the others. The two separate portions 

 of the work are found to bond well together, and the system is one which 

 admits of rapiditj' of construction, and without much skilled laboiir. 



In addition to the dock whicli has hccn alluded to as under construction 

 on the Gloucestershire side of the Avon, there is also another dock on the 

 Homcrsetshirc side at Portishead. As details of each of these docks have 

 already been laid before the Section, it is not necessary again to give the 

 particulars which the author had pre])ared respecting them. 



Report of the Committee, conshtiuf/ of the Rev. H. F. Barnes, H. E. 

 Dresser (Secretary), T. IIarlaxd, J. E. Harting, Professor 

 Newton, and the Rev. Canon Tristram, appointed for the purpose 

 of inquiring into the possibility of establishing a "Close Time" for 

 the protection of indigenous animals, and for ivatching Bills intro- 

 duced into Parliament affecting this subject. 



YoTJR Committee have again to express their regret that, notwithstanding 

 every exertion on their part, thcj Avere imable to obtain the introduction 

 into Parliament, in time to allow of its being successfully carried, of the 

 Eill which their former Ileports have indicated to be most desirable ; but at 

 the same time they have great pleasure in stating tliat Mr. Henry Chaplin, 

 M.P. for ]\Iid Lincolnshire, holds out to them the hope that he will at an 

 early period of the next session bring forward such a measure. 



Your Committee continue to receive assurances of the eiScient working of 

 the Sea-birds Preservation Act of 1869. 



In view of the proceedings likely to be taken in the ensuing session, as 

 above stated, your Committee respectfully solicit their reappointment. 



Report of the Committee appointed to Superintend the Publication of 

 the Monthly Reports of the progress of Chemistry, the Committee 

 consisting o/Professor A. W.Williamson, F.R.S., Professor Frank- 

 land, F.R.S.,and Professor Roscoe, F.R.S. 



The Committee have much pleasure in reporting that the Chemical Societj'- 

 has continued to publish the monthl}'^ reports of the progress of Chemistrj-, 

 which were commenced five ycaro ago bj' the aid of a grant of money from 

 the Association, and also raised by donations from members of the Society. 



These reports have been edited by Mr. Watts, to whose earnest and 

 assiduous labours much of the success of the reports must be attributed. A 

 considerable number of chemists divide among themselves the labour of 

 preparing abstracts of the chemical papers which have been published in the 

 course of each month. 



In spite of the smallness of the remuneration offered to these gentlemen, 

 the expense of publishing the abstracts is verj- considerable, and has 



