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PROCEEDINGS of the FORTY-THIRD MEETING, at Bradford, 

 September 1873, Published at £1 5s. 



Contents : — Report of the Committee on Mathematical Tables ; — Observations 

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

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

 the Existence in different parts 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 Chemical Constitution and Optical Properties 

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

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

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

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

 Rays ; — Report of the Committee appointed to explore the Settle Caves; — Sixth Report 

 on Underground Temperature ;- — Report on the Rainfall of the British Isles ; — Seventh 

 Report on Researches in Fossil Crustacea ; — Report on Recent Progress in Elliptic 

 and Hyperelliptic Functions ; — Report 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 Venus ; — Report of the Committee for the 

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

 the 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, &c. ; — 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 Sun-spot Periodicity ; — Fifth 

 Report on the Structure of Carboniferous- Limestone Corals ; — Report 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 Rainfall ; — 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 the Sections, Prof. A. W. Williamson's Address, 

 and Recommendations of the Association and its Committees. 



PROCEEDINGS of the FORTY-FOURTH MEETING, at Belfast, 

 August 1874, Published at £1 5s. 



Contents : — Tenth Report on Kent's Cavern ; — Report for investigating the 

 Chemical Constitution and Optical Properties of Essential Oils ; — Second Report of 

 the Sub-Wealden Exploration Committee ; — On the Recent Progress and Present 

 State of Systematic Botany ; — Report of the Committee for investigating the Nature 

 of Intestinal Secretion ; — Report of the Committee on the Teaching of Physics in 

 Schools ; — Preliminary Report for investigating Isomeric Cresols and their Deriva- 

 tives ; — Third Report of the Committee for collecting Fossils from localities in 

 North-western Scotland ; — Report on the Rainfall of the British Isles ; — On the Bel- 

 fast Harbour ; — Report of Inquiry into the Method of making Gold-assays ; — Report 

 of a Committee on Experiments to determine the Thermal Conductivities of certain 

 Rocks ; — Second Report on the Exploration of the Settle Caves ; — On the Industrial 

 uses of the Upper Bann River ; — Report of the Committee on the Structure and 

 Classification of the Labyrinthodont ; — Second Report of the Committee for record- 

 ing the position, height above the sea, lithological characters, size, and origin of the 

 Erratic Blocks of England and Wales, &c. ; — Sixth Report on the Treatment and 

 Utilization of Sewage ; — Report on the Anthropological Notes and Queries for the 

 use of Travellers ; — On Cyclone and Rainfall Periodicities ; — Fifth Report on Earth- 

 quakes in Scotland ; — Report of the Committee appointed to prepare and print 

 Tables of Wave-numbers ; — Report of the Committee for testing the new Pyrometer 

 of Mr. Siemens ; — Report to the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty on Experi- 

 ments for the Determination of the Frictional Resistance of Water on a Surface, 





