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Tables ; — Eeport of the Committee on Mathematical Notation and Printing ; — Second 

 Eeport of the Committee for investigating Intestinal Secretion ; — Third Eeport of 

 the Sub-Wealden Exploration Committee. 



Together with the Transactions of the Sections, Sir John Hawkshaw's Address, 

 and Eecommendations of the Association and its Committees. 



PROCEEDINGS of the FORTY-SIXTH MEETING, at Glasgow, 

 September 1876, Published at £1 5s. 



Contents: — Twelfth Eeport on Kent's Cavern; — Eeport on Improving the 

 Methods of Instruction in Elementary Geometry ; — Eesults of a Comparison of the 

 British-Association Units of Electrical Eesistance ; — Third Eeport on the Thermal 

 Conductivities of certain Eocks ; — Eeport of the Committee on the practicability of 

 adopting a Common Measure of Value in the Assessment of Direct Taxation ; — 

 Eeport of the Committee for testing experimentally Ohm's Law ; — Eeport of the 

 Committee on the possibility of establishing a ' Close Time ' for the Protection of 

 Indigenous Animals ; — Eeport of the Committee on tlie Effect of Projjellers on the 

 Steering of Vessels ; — On the Investigation of the Steering Qualities of Ships ; — ■ 

 Seventh Eeport on Earthquakes in Scotland ; — Eeport on the present state of our 

 Knowledge of the Crustacea; — Second Eeport of the Committee for investigating 

 the Circulation of the Underground Waters in the New Eed Sandstone and Permian 

 Formations of England ; — Fourth Eeport of the Committee on the Erratic Blocks of 

 England and Wales, &c. ; — Fourth Eeport of the Committee on the Exploration of 

 the Settle Caves (Victoria Cave) ; — Eeport on Observations of Luminous Meteors, 

 1875-76 ; — Eeport on the Eainfall of the British Isles, 1875-76 ; — Ninth Eeport on 

 Underground Temperature ; — Nitrous Oxide in the Gaseous and Liquid States ; — 

 Eighth Eeport on the Treatment and Utilization of Sewage ; — Improved Investiga- 

 tions on the Flow of Water through Orifices, with Objections to the modes of treat- 

 ment commonly adopted ; — Eeport of the Anthropometric Committee ; — On Cyclone 

 and Eainfall Periodicities in connexion with the Sun-spot Periodicity ; — Eeport of 

 the Committee for determining the Mechanical Equivalent of Heat ; — Eeport of the 

 Committee on Tidal Observations ; — Tliird Eeport of the Committee on the Condi- 

 tions of Intestinal Secretion and Movement ; — Eeport of the Committee for collect- 

 ing and suggesting subjects for Chemical Eesearch. 



Together with the Transactions of the Sections, Dr. T. Andrews's Address, and 

 Eecommendations of the Association and its Committees. 



PROCEEDINGS of the FORTY-SEVENTH MEETING, at Ply- 

 mouth, August 1877, Published at £1 4s. 



Contents : — Thirteenth Eeport on Kent's Cavern ; — Second and Third Eeports 

 on the Methods employed in the estimation of Potash and Phosphoric Acid in Com- 

 mercial Products ; — Eeport on the present state of our Knowledge of the Crustacea 

 (Part III.) ; — Third Eeport on the Circulation of the Underground Waters in the New 

 Eed Sandstone and Permian Formations of England ; — Fifth Eeport on the Erratic 

 Blocks of England, Wales, and Ireland ; — Fourth Eeport on the Thermal Conducti- 

 vities of certain Eocks ; — Eeport on Observations of Lmninous Meteors, 1876-77 ; — 

 Tenth Eeport on Underground TemiDcratiu-e : — Eeport on the Effect of Propellers on 

 the Steering of Vessels ; — Eeport on the possibility of establisliing a ' Close Time ' 

 for the Protection of Indigenous Animals ; — Eeport on some Double Compounds of 

 Nickel and Cobalt ; — Fifth Eei^ort on the Exploration of the Settle Caves (Victoria 

 Cave) ; — Eeport on the Datum Level of tlie Ordnance Survey of Great Britain ; — 

 Eeport on the Zoological Station at Naples ; — Eeport of the Anthropometric Com- 

 mittee ; — Eeport on the Conditions under which Liquid Carbonic Acid exists in 

 Eocks and Minerals. 



Together with the Transactions of the Sections, Prof. Allen Thomson's Address, 

 and Eecommendations of the Association and its Committees. 



