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vations on the Electrical Eesistauce and Electrification of some Insulating Materials 

 under Pressures up to 300 Atmospheres ; — C. M. Palmer, on the Construction of Iron 

 Ships and the Progress of Iron Shipbuilding on the Tyne, Wear, and Tees ; — Messrs. 

 Kichardson, Stevenson, and Clai3ham,on tlie Chemical Manufactures of the Northern 

 Districts ; — Messrs. Sopwith and Kichardson, on the Local Manufacture of Lead, 

 Copper, Zinc, Antimony, Sec. ; — Messrs. Daglish and Forster, on the Magnesian Lime- 

 stone of Durham ; — I. L. Bell, on the Manufacture of Iron in connexion with the 

 Northumberland and Durham Coal-field ; — T. Spencer, on the Manufacture of Steel 

 in the Northern District ; — Prof. H. J. S. Smith, Eejjort on the Theory of Numbers, 

 Part V. 



Together with the Transactions of the Sections, Sir William Armstrong's Address, 

 and Recommendations of the Association and its Committees. 



PROCEEDINGS of the THIRTY-FOURTH MEETING, at Bath, 

 September 1864, Published at 18s. 



Contents: — Report of the Committee for Observations of Luminous Meteors; — 

 Report of the Committee on the best means of providing for a Uniformity of Weights 

 and Measures ; — T. S. Cobbold, Report of Experiments respecting the Development 

 and Migration of tlic Entozoa; — U. W. Richardson, Report on tlie Physiological 

 Action of Nitrite of Amyl ; — J. Oldham, Report of the Committee on Tidal Observa- 

 tions ; — G. S. Brady, Report on DeeiD-sea Dredging on the Coasts of Northumberland 

 and Durham in 1864 ; - J. (ilaisher, Account of Nine Balloon Ascents made in 1863 

 and ISG-l; — J. G. Jeffreys, Further Report on Shetland Dredgings ; — Report of the 

 Committee on the Distribution of the Organic Remains of the North Staffordshire 

 Coal-field ; — Report of the Committee on Standards of Electrical Resistance ; — G. J. 

 Symons, on the Fall of Rain in the British Isles in 1862 and 1863; — W. Fairbairn, 

 Preliminary Investigation of the Mechanical Properties of the proposed Atlantic 

 Cable. 



Together with the Transactions of the Sections, Sir Charles Lyell's Address, and 

 Recommendations of the Association and its Committees. 



PROCEEDINGS of the THIRTY-FIFTH MEETING, at Birming- 

 ham, September 1865, PiMislied at £\ 6s. 



Contents: — J. G. .leffreys. Report on Dredging among the Channel Isles; — F. 

 Buckland, Report on the Cultivation of Oysters by Natural and Artificial Methods ; — 

 Report of the Committee for exploring Kent's Cavern ; — Ref)ort of the Committee 

 on Zoological Nomenclature ; — Report on the Distribution of the Organic Remains 

 of the North Staffordshire Coal-field ; — Report on the Marine Fauna and Flora of 

 the South Coast of Devon and Cornwall ; — Interim Report on the Resistance of 

 Water to Floating and Immersed Bodies ; — Report on Observations of Luminous 

 Meteors ; — Report on Dredging on the Coast of Aberdeenshire ; — J. Glaisher, Account 

 of Three Balloon Ascents; — Interim Report on the Transmission of Sound under 

 Water ; — G. J. Symons, on the Rainfall of the British Isles ; — W. Fairbairn, on the 

 Strength of Materials considered in relation to the Construction of Iron Ships ; — 

 Report of the Gun-Cotton Committee ; — A. F. Osier, on the Horary and Diurnal 

 Variations in the Direction and Motion of the Air at Wrottesley, Liverpool, and 

 Birmingham ; — B. W. Richardson, Second Report on the Physiological Action of 

 certain of the Amyl Compounds ;— Report on further Researches in the Lingula- 

 flags of South Wales ; — Report of the Lunar Committee for Mapping the Surface of 

 the Moon ; — Report on Standards of Electrical Resistance ; — Report of the Com- 

 mittee appointed to communicate witli the Russian Government respecting Mag- 

 netical Observations at Tiflis ; — Appendix to Reporton the Distribution of the Verte- 

 brate Remains from the North Staffordshire Coal-field; — H. Woodward, First Report 

 on the Structiire and Classification of tlie Fossil Crustacea; — Prof. H. J. S. Smith, 

 Report on tlie Tlieory of Numbers, Part VI. ; Report on the best means of providing 

 for a Uniformity of Weiglitsand Measures, with reference to the interests of Science; 

 — A. G. Findlajr, on the Bed of tlie Ocean ; — Prof. A. W. Williamson, on the Com- 

 position of Gases evolved by the Bath Spring called King's Bath. 



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 commendations of the Association and its Committees. 



