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Discovery of Fossils in certain remote parts of tlic North-western Highlands ; — Report of the 

 Committee on Earthquakes in Scotland; — Fourth Report on Carboniferous-Limestone Corals ; 

 — Report of the Committee to consider the mode in which new Inventions and Claims for 

 Reward in respect of adopted Inventions are examined and dealt with by the different 

 Departments of Government ; — Report of the Committee for discussing Observations of 

 Lunar Objects suspected of cliange; — Report ou the MoUusca of Europe; — Report of the 

 Committee for investigating the Chemical Constitution and Optical Properties of Essential 

 Oils ; — Report on the pracdcability of establishing a " Close Time " for the preservation 

 of indigenous animals ; — Sixth Report on the Structure and Classification of Fossil Crustacea ; 

 — Report of the Committee to organize an Expedition for observing the Solar Eclipse of Dec. 

 12, 1871 ; Preliminary Report of a Committee on Terato-cmbryological Inquiries ; — Report 

 on Recent Progress in Elliptic and Ilyperclliptic Functions ; — Report on Tidal Observations j 

 — On the Brighton Waterworks ; — On Amsler's Plaiiimeter. 



Together with the Transactions of the Sections, Dr. Carpenter's Address, and Recom- 

 mendations of the Association and its Committees. 



PROCEEDINGS of the FOETy-THIRD MEETING, at Bradford, 

 September 1873, PuhUshed at £1 5s. 



Contents : — Report of the Committee on Mathematical Tables ; — Observations on the 

 Application of Machinery to the cutting of Coal in Mines ; — Concluding Report on the 

 Maltese Fossil Elephants ; — Report of the Committee for ascertaining the existence in diffe- 

 rent parts of the United Kingdom of any Erratic Blocks or Boulders ; — Fourth Report on 

 Earthquakes in Scotland ; — Ninth Report on Kent's Cavern ; — On the Flint and Chert Imple- 

 ments found in Kent's Cavern ; — Report of the Committee for investigating the Chemical 

 Constitution and Optical Properties of Essential Oils ; — Report of inquiry into the Method of 

 making Gold-assays ; — Fifth Report on the Selection and Nomenclature of Dynamical and 

 Electrical Units ; — Report of the Committee on the Lahyrinthodonts of the Coal-measures ; 

 — Report of the Committee to construct and print Catalogues of Spectral Rays; — Report 

 of the Committee appointed to explore the Settle Caves ; — Sixth Report on Underground 

 Temperature; — Report on the Rainfall of the British Isles ; — Seventh Report on Researches 

 in Fossil Crustacea ; — Report on Recent Progress in Elliptic and llyperelliptic Functions ; — • 

 Report on the desirability of establishing a " Close Time " for the preservation of indigenous 

 animals ; — Report on Luminous Meteors;— On the visibility of the dark side of Venus; — 

 Report of the Committee for the foundation of Zoological Stations in different parts of the 

 world ; — Second Report of the Committee for collecting Fossils from North-western Scot- 

 land; — Fifth Report on the Treatment and Utilization of Sewage; — Report of the Com- 

 mittee on Monthly Reports of the Progress of Chemislry ; — On the Bradford Waterworks ;— 

 Report on the possibility of Improving the Methods of Instruction in Elementary Geometry ; 

 — Interim Report of the Committee on Instruments for Measuring the Speed of Ships, &c. ; 

 — Report of the Committee for Determinating High Temperatures by means of the Refran- 

 gibility of Light, evolved by Fluid or Solid Substances; — On a periodicity of Cyclones and 

 Rainfall in connexion with Sun-spot periodicity ; — Fifth Report on the Structure of Carbo- 

 niferous-Limestone Corals ; — Report of the Committee on preparing and publishing brief 

 forms of Instructions for Travellers, Ethnologists, &c. ; — Preliminary Note from the Com- 

 mittee on the Influence of Forests on the Rainfall; — Report of Sub-Wealden Exploration 

 Committee ; — Report of the Committee on Machinery for obtaining a Record of the Rough- 

 ness of the Sea and Measurement of Waves near shore ; — Report on Science-Lectures and 

 Organization ; — Second Report on Seieuce-Lectmcs and Organization. 



Together with the Transactions of the Sections, Professor A. W. Williamson's Address, 

 and Recommendations of the Association and its Committees. 



PROCEEDINGS of the FORTY-FOITRTH MEETING, at Belfast, 

 August 1874, Pahlislied at £1 os. 



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 Systematic Botany; 

 — Report of the Committee for investigating the Nature of Intestinal Secretion ; — Report of 

 the Committee on the Teaching of Ph>sies in Schools; — Preliminary Report for investiga- 

 ting Isomeric Cresols and tlieir derivatives ; — Third Report of the Committee for Collecting 

 Fossils from localities in North- Western Scotland; — Report on the Rainfall of the British 

 I.-lcs ; — On the Belfast Harbour ; — Report of inquiry into the Method of making Gold- 

 assays ; — Report of a Committee on Experiments to determine the Thermal Conductivities 



