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Eussell, lieport on Waves; — Provisional Reports, and Notices of Progress in Special 

 Eesearclies entrusted to Committees and Individuals. 



Together with the Transactions of the Sections, the Dean of Ely's Address, and 

 Eecommendations of the Association and its Committees. 



PROCEEDINGS of the FIFTEENTH MEETING, at Cambridge,. 

 1845, Published at 12s. 



Contents : — Seventh Report of a Committee appointed to conduct the Co-opera- 

 tion of the British Association in the System of Simultaneous Magiietical and 

 Meteorological Observations; — Lieut. -Col. Sabine, on some Points in the Meteorology 

 of Bombay ; — J. Blake, Report on the Physiological Actions of Medicines ; — Dr. Von 

 Boguslawski, on the Comet of 1843; — R. Hunt, Report on the Actinogxaph ; — Prof. 

 Schonhein, on Ozone ; — Prof. Erman, on the Influence of Friction upon Thermo- 

 Electricity; — Baron Senftenberg, on the Self -registering Meteorological Instru- 

 ments employed in the Observatory at Senftenberg ; — W. R. Birt, Second Report on 

 Atmospheric' Waves ; — G. R. Porter, on the Progress and Present Extent of Savings" 

 Banks in the United Kingdom ; — Prof. Bunsen and Dr. Playfair, Report on the Gases 

 evolved from Iron Furnaces, with reference to the Theory of Smelting of Iron ; — 

 Dr. Richardson, Report on the Ichtliyology of the Seas of China and Japan ; — 

 Report of the Committee on the Registration of Periodical Phenomena of Animals 

 and Vegetables; — Fifth Report of the Committee on the Vitality of Seeds; — 

 Appendix, &c. 



Together with the Transactions of the Sections, Sir J. F. AV, Herschel's Address,, 

 and Recommendations of the Association and its Committees. 



PROCEEDINGS of the SIXTEENTH MEETING, at Southampton,. 



1846, Published at 15s. 



Contents : — G. G. Stokes, Report on Recent Researches in Hydrodynamics ; — 

 8ixth Report of the Committee on the Vitality of Seeds ; — Dr. Schimck, on the 

 Colouring Matters of Madder ; — J. Blake, on the Physiological Action of Medicines ; . 

 — R. Hunt, Report on the Actinograph ; — R. Hunt, Notices on the Influence of Light 

 on the Growth of Plants ; — R. L. Ellis, on the Recent Progress of Analysis ; — Prof. 

 Forchhammer, on Comparative Analytical Researches on Sea Water ; — A. Erman, on. 

 the Calculation of the Gaussian Constants for 1829; — G. R. Porter, on the Progress, 

 present Amount, and probable future Condition of the Iron Manufacture in Great 

 Britain ; — W. R. Birt, Third Report on Atmospheric Waves ; — Prof. Owen, Report on 

 the Archetype and Homologies of the Vertebrate Skeleton ; — J. Phillips, on 

 Anemometry ; — Dr. J. Percy, Report on the Crystalline Flags ; — Addenda to Mr. 

 Birt's Report on Atmospheric Waves. 



Together with the Transactions of the Sections, Sir R. I. Miu'chison's Address, . 

 and Recommendations of the Association and its Committees. 



PROCEEDINGS of the SEVENTEENTH INIEETING, at Oxford,.. 

 1847, Published at 18s. 



Contents : — Prof. Langberg, on the Specific Gravity of Sulphuric Acid at 

 different degrees of dilution, and on the relation which exists between the Develop- 

 ment of Heat and the coincident contraction of Volume in Sulphuric Acid when 

 mixed with Water ; — R. Hunt, Researches on the Influence of the Solar Rays on the 

 Growth of Plants; — R. Mallet, on the Facts of Earthquake Phenomena; — Prof. 

 Nilsson, on the Primitive Inhabitants of Scandinavia; — W. Hopkins, Report on the 

 Geological Theories of Elevation and Earthquakes ; — Dr. W. B. Carpenter, Report 

 on the Microscopic Structure of Shells ; — Rev. W. Whewell and Sir James C. Ross, 

 Report upon the Recommendation of an Expedition for the purpose of completing 

 our Knowledge of the Tides ; — Dr. Schiuick, on Colouring Matters ; — Seventh Report 

 of the Committee on the Vitality of Seeds ; — J. Glynn, on the Turbine or Horizontal 

 Water- Wheel of France and Germany ; — Dr. R. G. Latham, on the present state and 



