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^PROCEEDINGS OP the THIRTY- SIXTH MEETING, at Notting- 

 kam, August 1866, Ptohlished at £1 4s. 



Contents : — Second Report on Kent's Cavern, Devonshire ; — A. Matthiessen, 

 Preliminary Report on tlie Chemical Nature of Cast Iron ; — Report on Observations 

 of Luminous Jleteors ;— W. S. Mitchell, Report on the Alum Bay Leaf-bed ; — 

 Report on the Resistance of Water to Floating: and Immersed Bodies; — Dr. Norris, 

 Report on Muscular Irritability ;— Dr. Richardson, Report on the Physiological 

 Action of certain compounds of Amyl and Ethyl ;— H. Woodward, Second Report on 

 the Structure and Classification of the Fossil Crustacea ;— Second Report on 

 the ' Menevian Group,' and the other Formations at St. David's, Pembrokeshire ; 

 — J. G. Jeffreys, Report on Dredging among the Hebrides ; — Rev. A. M. Norman, 

 Report on the Coasts of the Hebrides, Part II. ;— J. Alder, Notices of some Inverte- 

 brata, in connexion with Mr. Jeffreys's Report ;—G. S. Brady, Report on the 

 Ogfracoda dredged amongst the Hebrides ; — Report on Dredging in the Moray Firth ; 

 — Report on the Transmission of Sound- Signals under Water ; — Report of the Lunar 

 Committee ;— Report of the Rainfall Committee ; — Report on the best means of 

 providing for a Uniformity of Weiglits and Measures, with reference to the Interests 

 of Science ; — J. Glaisher, Account of Three Balloon Ascents ; — Report on the Extinct 

 Birds of the Mascarene Islands ; — Report on the Penetration of Ironclad Ships by 

 Steel Shot ; — J. A. Wanklyn, Report on Isomerism among the Alcohols; — Report on 

 Scientific Evidence in Coiu-ts of Law;— A. L. Adams, Second Report on Maltese 

 Fossiliferous Caves, &c. 



Together with tlie Transactions of the Sections, Mr. Grove's Address, and Recom- 

 mendations of the Association and its Committees. 



PROCEEDINGS of the THIRTY- SEVENTH MEETING, at 

 Dundee, September 1867, Published at £1 Gs. 



Contents :— Report of the Committee for Mapping the Surface of the Moon ;— 

 Third Report on Kent's Cavern, Devonshire ; — On the present State of the Manu- 

 facture of Iron in Great Britain ; — Third Report on the Structure and Classification 

 of the Fossil Crustacea ;~Report on the Physiological Action of the Methyl Com- 

 pounds ;— Preliminary Reijort on the Exploration of the Plant-Beds of North Green- 

 land;— Report of the Steamship Performance Committee ;— On the Meteorology of 

 Port Louis, in the Island of Mauritius ;— On the Construction and Works of the 

 Highland Railway; — Experimental Researches on the Mechanical Properties of 

 Steel ;~Report on the Marine Fauna and Flora of the South Coast of Devon and 

 Cornwall ;— Supplement to a Report on the Extinct Didine Birds of the Mascarene 

 Islands ;^Report on Observations of Luminous Meteors ; — Fourth Report on Dredging 

 among the Shetland Isles ;— Preliminary Report on the Crustacea, &c., procured by 

 the Slietland Dredging Committee in 1867 ;— Report on the Foraminifera obtained 

 in the Shetland Seas ;— Second Report of the Rainfall Committee ;— Report on the 

 best means of providing for a Uniformity of Weights and Measures, with reference 

 to llie interests of Science ;— Report on Standards of Electrical Resistance. 



Together with the Transactions of the Sections, and Recommendations of the 

 Association and its Committees. 



PROCEEDINGS op the THIRTY-EIGHTH MEETING, at Nor- 

 wicli, August 1868, PuhUshed at £1 5s. 



Contents :— Report of the Lunar Committee ;— Fourth Report on Kent's 

 Cavern, Devonshire ;— On Puddling Iron ;— Fourth Report on the Structure and 

 Classification of the Fossil Crustacea ;— Report on British Fossil Corals ;— Report on 

 Spectroscopic Investigations of Animal Substances ;— Report of Steamship Perform- 

 ance Committee ;— Spectrum Analysis of the Heavenly Bodies ;— On Stellar Spectro- 

 metry ;~Report on tlie Physiological Action of the Methyl and allied Compounds ;— 

 Report on the Action of Mercury on the Biliary Secretion ;— Last Report on Dredg- 

 ing among the Shetland Isles ;— Reports on the Crustacea, Sec, and on the Annelida 

 and Foraminifera from the Shetland Dredgings ;— Report on the Chemical Nature of 

 Cast Iron, Part I.;— Interim Report on the Safety of Merchant Ships and their 

 Passengers ;— Report on Observations of Luminous Meteors ;— Preliminary Report 



