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Luminous Meteors, 1871-72 ; — Experiments on the Surface-friction experienced by 

 a Plane moving through Water ; — Keport of the Committee on the Antagonism be- 

 tween the Action of Active Substances ; — Fifth Keport on Underground Tempera- 

 ture ;— Preliminary Eeport of the Committee on Siemens's Electrical- Resistance 

 Pjrrometer : — Fourth Eeport on the Treatment and Utilization of Sewage ; — Interim 

 Eeport of the Committee on Instruments for Measuring the Speed of Ships and 

 Currents ; — Report on the Rainfall of the British Isles ; — Eeport of the Committee 

 on a Geographical Exploration of the Country of Moab ; — Siu: Telimination des 

 Fonctions Arbitraires ; — Eeport on the Discovery of Fossils in certain remote parts- 

 of the North-western Highlands ; — Report of the Committee on Earthquakes in 

 Scotland ; — Fourth Eeport on Carboniferous-Limestone Corals ; — Eeport of the Com- 

 mittee to consider the mode in which new Inventions and Claims for Eeward in 

 respect of adopted Inventions are examined and dealt with by the diilerent Depart- 

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

 Lunar Objects suspected of change ; — Report on the Mollusca of Europe ; — Report of 

 the Committee for investigating the Chemical Constitution and Optical Properties- 

 of Essential Oils ; — Report on the practicability of establishing a ' Close Time ' for 

 the preservation of Indigenous Animals ; — Sixth Report on the Structure and Classi- 

 tication of Fossil Crustacea ; — Report of the Committee appointed to organize an Ex- 

 pedition for observing the Solar Eclipse of Dec. 12, 1871 ; — Preliminary Report of 

 a Committee on Terato-embryological Inquiries ; — Eeport on Eecent Progress in 

 Elliptic and Hyperelliptic Functions ; — Eeport on Tidal Observations ; — On the 

 Brighton Waterworks ; — On Amsler's Planimeter. 



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

 Recommendations of the Association and its Committees. 



PROCEEDINGS of the FORTY- THIRD MEETING, at Bradford,. 

 September 1873, Published at £1 6s. 



Contents : — Eeport of the Committee on Matliematical Tables ; — Observations 

 on the Application of Machinery to the Cutting of Coal in Mines ; — Concluding Ee- 

 port on the Maltese Fossil Elephants ; — Report of the Committee for ascertaining 

 the Existence in different jDarts 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 Implements found in Kent's Cavern ; — Report of 

 the Committee for Investigating the Cliemical Constitution and Optical Properties- 

 of Essential Oils ; — Report of Inquiry into the Method of making Gold-assays p 

 — Fifth Report on the Selection and Nomenclature of Dynamical and Electrical 

 Units ; — Report of the Committee on the Labyrinthodonts of the Coal-measures ; — 

 Eeport of the Committee appointed to construct and print Catalogues of Spectral 

 Eays ; — Report of the Committee api^ointed to explore the Settle Caves; — Sixth Eeport 

 on Underground Temperature ; — Eeport on the Rainfall of the British Isles ; — Seventh 

 Eeport on Eesearches in Fossil Crustacea ; — Eeport on Eecent Progress in Elliptic 

 and Hj^erelliptic Functions ; — Eeport 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 Venvis ; — Report of the Committee for the 

 Foundation of Zoological Stations in different parts of the World ; — Second Report of 

 tlie Committee for collecting Fossils from North-western Scotland ; — Fifth Report 

 on the Treatment and Utilization of Sewage ; — Report of the Committee on Monthly 

 Reports of the Progress of Chemistry ; — 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, iScc. ; — Report of the Committee for Determinating High Temperatures by 

 means of the Refrangibility of Light evolved by Fluid or Solid Substances ; — On a 

 periodicity of Cyclones and Rainfall in connexion with Sim-spot Periodicity ; — Fifth 

 Eeport on the Structure of Carboniferous- Limestone Corals; — Eeport of the Com- 

 mittee on preparing and publishing brief forms of Instructions for Travellers, 

 Ethnologists, &c. ;— Preliminary Note from the Committee on the Influence of Forests 

 on the Eainfall ; — Report of the Sub-Wealden Exploration Committee ;^Report of 

 the Committee on Machinery for obtaining a Record of the Roughness of the Sea 

 and Measurement of Waves near shore ; — Report on Science Lectures and Organi- 

 •zation ; — Second Report on Science Lectures and Organization. 



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

 and Recommendations of the Association and its Committees, 



