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PROCEEDINGS of the TWENTY-EIGHTH MEETING, .at Leeds,. 

 September 1858, Published at 20s. 



Contents : — R. Mallet, Fourth Report upon the Facts and Theory of E-arthquake 

 Phenomena;— Rev. Prof. Powell, Report on Observations of Luminous Meteors, 1857, 

 1858 ; — R. H. Meade, on some Points in the Anatomy of the Araneideaor true Spiders, 

 especially on the internal structure of their Spinning Organs ; — W. Fairbairn, Report 

 of the Committee on the Patent Laws ; — S. Eddy, on the Lead Mining Districts of 

 Yorkshire ; — W. Fairbairn, on the Collapse of Glass Globes and Cylinders ; — Dr. E. 

 Perceval Wright and Prof. J. Reay Greene, Report on the Marine Fauna of the South' 

 and West Coasts of Ireland ; — Prof. J. Thomson, on Experiments on the Measurement 

 of Water by Triangular Notches in Weir Boards ; — Major-General Sabine, Report of 

 the Committee on the Magnetic Survey of Great Britain ; — Michael Connel and 

 William Keddie, Report on Animal, Vegetable, and Mineral Substances imported 

 from Foreign Countries into the Clyde (including the Ports of Glasgow, Greenock, 

 and Port Glasgow) in the years 1853, 1854, 1855, 1856, and 1857; — Report of the 

 Committee on Shipping Statistics ; — Rev. H. Lloyd, D.D., Notice of the Instruments 

 employed in the Magnetic Survey of Ireland, with some of the Results ; — Prof. J. R. 

 Kinahan, Report of Dublin Dredging Committee, appointed 1857-58 ; — Prof. J. R. 

 Kinahan, Report on Crustacea of Dublin District ;^-Andrew Henderson, on River 

 Steamers, their Form, Construction, and Fittings, with reference to the necessity for 

 improving the present means of Shallow- Water Navigation on the Rivers of British 

 India ; — George C. Hyndman, Report of the Belfast Dredging Committee ; — Appendix 

 to Mr. Vignoles' Paper " On the Adaptation of Suspension Bridges to sustain the 

 passage of Railway Trains; " — Report of the Joint Committee of the Royal Society 

 and the British Association, for procuring a continuance of the Magnetic and 

 Meteorological Observatories ;— R. Beckley, Description of a. Self-recording Ane- 

 mometer. 



Together with the Transactions of the Sections, Prof. Owen's Address, and Re- 

 commendations of the Association and its Committees. 



PROCEEDINGS of the TWENTY-NINTH MEETING, at Aberdeen;. 

 September 1859, Published at 15s. 



Contents : — George C. Foster, Preliminary. Report on the Recent Progress and 

 Present State of Organic Chemistry ; — Professor Buckman, Report on the Growth of 

 Plants in the Garden of the Royal Agricultural College, Cirencester ;^Dr. A. Voelcker, 

 Report on Field Experiments and Laboratory Researches on the Constituents of. 

 Manures essential to Cultivated Crops ; — A. Thomson, of Banchory,' Report orr* 

 the Aberdeen Industrial Feeding Schools ; — On the Upper Silurians of Lesmahagow, 

 Lanarkshire ; — Alphonse Gages, Report on the Results obtained by the Mechanico- 

 Chemical Examination of Rocks and Minerals ;— William Fairbairn, Experiments to 



determine the Efficiency of Continuous and Self-acting Breaks for Railway 'Trains ; 



Professor J. R. Kinahan, Report of Dublin Bay Dredging Committee for 1858-59 ; 



Rev. Baden Powell, Report on Observations of Luminous Meteors for 1858-5,9 ;^ 

 Professor Owen, Report on a Series of Skulls of various Tribes of Mankind inhabiting 

 Nepal, collected, and presented to the British Museum, by Bryan Hi Hodgson, Esq., 

 late Resident in Nepal, &c, &c. ; — Messrs. Maskelyne, Hadow, Hardwich, and Llewelyn, . 



Report on the Present State of our Knowledge regarding the Photographic Image ; 



G. C. Hyndman, Report of the Belfast Dredging Committee for 1859 ; — James 



Oldham, Continuation of Report of the Progress of Steam Navigation at Hull ; 



Charles Atherton, Mercantile Steam Transport Economy as affected by the Con- 

 sumption of Coals ; — Warren Be La Rue, Report on the present state of Celestial 

 Photography in England ;— Professor Owen, on the Orders of Fossil and Recent 

 Reptilia, and their Distribution in Time ; — Balfour Stewart, on some Residts of the 

 Magnetic Survey of Scotland in the years 1857 and 1858, undertaken, at The request 

 of the British Association, by the late John Welsh, Esq., F.R.S.:— W. Fairbairn, The 

 Patent Laws : Report of Committee on the Patent Laws ; — J. Park Harrison, Lunar 

 Influence on the Temperature of the Air : — Balfour Stewart, an Account of the Con- 

 struction of the Self-recording Magnetographs at present in operation at the Kew 

 Observatory of the British Association ;— Professor H. J. Stephen Smith, Report on 

 the Theory of Numbers, Part I. ;*- Report of .the Committee on Steamship Performance; 



