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oti Mineral Veins containing Organic Remains ; — Report on the Desirability of 

 Explorations between India and China ; — Report of Rainfall Committee ; — Re- 

 port on Synthetical Researches on Organic Acids ; — Report on Uniformity of Weights 

 and Measures ; — Report of the Committee on Tidal Observations ; — Report of the 

 Committee on Underground Temperatui-e ; — Changes of the Moon's Surface ; — Re- 

 port on Polyatomic Cyanides. 



Together with the Transactions of the Sections, Dr. Hooker's Address, and Recom- 

 mendations of the Association and its Committees. 



PROCEEDINGS OF the THIRTY-NINTH MEETING, at Exeter, 

 August 1869, Published at £1 2s. 



Contents : — Report on the Plant-beds of North Greenland ; — Report on the 

 existing knowledge on the Stability, Propulsion, and Sea-going qualities of Ships ; 

 ■ — Report on Steam-boiler Explosions ; — Preliminary Report on the Determination 

 of the Gases existing in Solution in Well-waters ; — The Pressure of Taxation on 

 Real Property ; — On the Chemical Reactions of Light discovered by Prof. Tyndall ; — 

 On Fossils obtained at Kiltorkan Quarry, co. Kilkenny ; — Report of tlie Lunar Com- 

 mittee ; — Report on the Chemical Nature of Cast Iron ; — Report on the Marine Fauna 

 and Flora of the South Coast of Devon and Cornwall ; — Report on the Practicability 

 of establishing a ' Close Time ' for the Protection of Indigenous Animals ; — Experi- 

 mental Researches on the Mechanical Proijerties of Steel ; — Second Report on 

 British Fossil Corals ; — Report of the Committee appointed to get cut and prepared 

 Sections of Mountain-Limestone Corals for Photographing ; — Report on the Rate of 

 Increase of UndergTound Temperature ;--Fiftli Report on Kent's Cavern, Devon- 

 shire ; — Report on the Connexion between Chemical Constitution and Physiological 

 Action ; — On Emission, Absorption, and Reflection of Obscure Heat ; — Report on 

 Observations of Luminous Meteors ; — Report on Uniformity of Weights and Measures ; 

 — Report on the Treatment and Utilization of Sewage ; — Supplement to Second 

 Report of the Steamship-Performance Committee ; — Report on Recent Progress in 

 Elliptic and Hyperelliptic Functions ; — Report on Mineral Veins in Carboniferous 

 Limestone and their Organic Contents ; — Notes on the Foraminifera of Mineral 

 Veins and the Adjacent Strata ; — Report of the Rainfall Committee ; — Interim Re- 

 port on the Laws of tlie Flow and Action of Water containing Solid Matter in 

 Suspension; — Interim Report on Agricultural Machinery ; — Report on the Physio- 

 logical Action of Methyl and Allied Series; — On the Influence of Form considered 

 in Relation to the Strength of Railway-axles and other portions of Machinery sub- 

 jected to Rapid Alterations of Strain; — On the Penetration of Armour-plates with 

 Long Shells of Large Capacity fired obliquely; — Report on Standards of Electrical 

 Resistance. 



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

 commendations of the Associatian and its Committees. 



PROCEEDINGS of the FORTIETH MEETING, at Liverpool, Sep- 

 tembcr 1870, Published at 18s. 



Contents : — Report on Steam-boiler Exjslosions ; — Report of tlie Committee on 

 the Hiematite Iron-ores of Great Britain and Ireland ; — Report on the Sedimentary 

 Deposits of the River Onny; — Report on the Chemical Nature of Cast Iron ;^Re- 

 port on the practicability of establishing a ' Close Time ' for the protection of 

 Indigenous Animals ; — Report on Standards of Electrical Resistance ; — Sixth Report 

 on Kent's Cavern ; — Third Report on Underground Temperature ; — Second Report of 

 the Committee appointed to get cut and prepared Sections of Mountain-Limestone 

 Corals ; — Second Report on the Stability, Propulsion, and Sea-going Qualities of 

 Ships; — Report on Earthquakes in Scotland ; — Report on the Treatment and Utili- 

 zation of Sewage ; — Report on Observations of Luminous Meteors, 1869-70; — Report 

 on Recent Progress in Elliptic and Hyperelliptic Functions; — Report on Tidal Ob- 

 servations ; — On a new Steam-power Meter ; — Report on the Action of the Methyl 

 and Allied Series ; — Report of the Rainfall Committee ; — Report on the Heat 

 generated in the Blood in the Process of Arterialization ; — Report on the best 

 means of providing for Uniformity of Weights and Measures. 



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

 commendations of the Association and its Committees. 



