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the Physical Aspect of the Moon ;— "W. K. Birt, Contribution to a Report on the Phy- 

 sical Aspect of the Moon;— Dr. Collingwood and Mr. Byerley, Preliminary Report 

 of the Dredging Committee of tlie Mersey and Dee ;- Third Report of the Committee 

 on Steamship Performance ;— J. G. Jeffreys, Preliminary Report on the Best Mode ot 

 preventing the Ravages of Teredo and other Animals in our Ships and Harlxiurs ;— 

 K, Mallet, Report on the Experiments made at Holyhead to ascertain the Transit- 

 Velocity of Waves, analogous to Earthquake Waves, through the local Rock Format ions : 

 — T, Dobson, on the Explosions in British Coal-Mines during the year 1859 ;— J. OkU 

 ham, Continuation of Report on Steam Navigation at Hull ;— Prof. G. Dickie, Briet 

 Summary of a Report on the Flora of the North of Ireland ;— Prof. Owen, on the 

 Psychical and Physical Characters of the Mincopies, or Natives of the Aiiclaman 

 Islands, and on the Relations there})y indicated to other Races of Mankind ;— Colonel 

 Sykes, Report of the Balloon Committee ;—Major-General Sabine, Report on the Re- 

 petition of the Magnetic Survey of England ;— Interim Report of the Committee tor 

 Dredging on the North and East Coasts of Scotland ;— W. Fairbairn, on the Resist- 

 ance of Iron Plates to Statical Pi-essure and the Force of Impact by Projectiles at 

 High Velocities ;— W. Fairbairn. Continuation of Report to determine the effect ot 

 Vibratory Action and long-continued Changes of Load upon Wrought-Iron Girders ; 

 —Report of the Committee on the Law of Patents;— Prof. H. J. S. Smith, Report on 

 the Theorv of Numbers, Part III. 



Together with the Transactions of the Sections, Mr. Fairbairn's Address, and iie- 

 commendations of the Association and its Committees. 



PROCEEDINGS of the THIRTY- SECOND MEETING at Cam- 

 bridge, October 1862, Puhlished at £1. 



Contents :— James Glaisher, Report on Observations of Luminous Meteors, 1861- 

 62 ;— G. B. Airy, on the Strains in the Interior of Beams ;— Archibald Smith and F._ 

 J. Evans, Report on the three Reports of the Liverpool Compass Committee ;— Report 

 on Tidal Observations on the Humber;— T. Aston, on Rifled Guns and Projectiles - 

 adapted for Attacking Armour-plate Defences ;— Extracts, relating to the O'^sei-va- 

 tory at Kew, from a Report presented to the Portuguese Government, by Dr. J. A, 

 de Souza ;— H. T. Mennell, Report on the Dredging of the Northumberland Coast 

 and Dogger Bank ;— Dr. Cuthbert Collingwood, Report upon the best means of ad- 

 vancing Science through the agency of the Mercantile Marine ;— Messrs. Williamson, . 

 "\NTieatstone, Thomson, Miller, Matt hiessen, and Jenkin, Provisional Report on Stan- 

 dards of Electrical Resistance ;— Preliminary Report of the Committee for investiga^ 

 ting the Chemical and Mineralogical Composition of the Granites of Donegal ; — Prof. 

 H. Hennessy, on the Vertical Movements of the Atmosphere considered in connec- 

 tion with Storms and Changes of Weather ;— Report of Committee on the application 

 of Gauss's General Theory of Terrestrial Magnetism to the Magnetic Variations;— 

 Fleeming Jenkin, on Thermo-electric Currents in Circuits of one Metal ;— W. Fair- 

 bairn, on the Mechanical Properties of Iron Projectiles at High Velocities ;— A. Cay- 

 ley, Report on the Progress of the Solution of certain Special Problems of Dynamics; 

 — Prof. G. G. Stokes, Report on Double Refraction ;— Fourth Report of the Comimittee 

 on Steamship Performance ;— G. J. Symons, on the Fall of Rain in the British Isles, 

 in 1860 and 1861 ;— J. Ball, on Tliermometric Observations in the Alps ;— J. G. 

 -Jeffreys, Report of the Committee for Dredging on the North and East Coasts of 

 Scotland ;— Report of the Committee on Technical and Scientific Evidence in Courts 

 of Law;— James Glaisher, Account of Eight Balloon Ascents in 1862;— Prof. H. J. S.. 

 Smith, Rejjort on the Theory of Numbers, Part IV. 



Together with the Transactions of the Sections, the Rev. Prof. R. Willis's Address 

 and Recommendations of the Association and its Committees. 



PROCEEDINGS of the THIRTY-THIRD MEETING, at New- 

 castle-npon-Tyne, August and September 1863, Published at £1 5s. 



Contents : — Report of the Committee on the Application of Gun-cotton to War- 

 like Purposes ; — A. Matthiessen, Report on the Chemical Nature of Alloys ;~Beport 

 of the Committee on the Chemical and Mineralogical Constitution of the Granites of' 

 Donegal, and on the Rocks associated with them ; — J. G. Jeffreys, Report of the €om.- 

 Baittee appointed for exploring tlie Coasts of Shetland hy means of the Dredge ; — 



