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violet Rays of the Solar Spectrum ; — Report on the best means of Comparing and 

 Reducing Magnetic Observations ; — Report of the Committee for constructing and 

 issuing Practical Standards for use in Electrical Measurements ; — Interim Report of 

 the Committee for carrying on the Tables connected with the Pellian Equation from 

 the Point where the work was left by Degen in 1817 ;— Seventh Report on the best 

 methods of recording the direct Intensity of Solar Radiation ; — Report on the 

 Preparation of a new series of Wave-length Tables of the Spectra of the Elements 

 and Compounds;— Interim Report on the Action of Light upon Dyed Colours; — 

 Report (provisional) on the Influence of the Silent Discharge of Electricity on Oxygen 

 and other Gases ; — Third Report on the Bibliography of Spectroscopy ; — Fifth Report 

 on Isomeric Naphthalene Derivatives ; — Fifth Report on the Bibliography of Solu- 

 tion ; — Third Report on the best method of establishing an International Standard 

 for the Analysis of Iron and Steel ; — Provisional Report on the direct formation of 

 Haloid Compounds from pure materials; — Report (provisional) on the Absorption 

 Spectra of Pure Compounds; — Nineteenth Report on the Erratic Blocks of England, 

 Wales, and Ireland ; — Second Report on the Registration of all the Type Specimens 

 of British Fossils ; — Seventeenth Report on the Circulation of Underground Waters 

 in the Permeable Formations of England and Wales, and the Quantity and Character 

 of the Water supplied to various Towns and Districts from these Formations; — 

 Report on the Volcanic Phenomena of Vesuvius and its neighbourhood ; — Second 

 Report on the collection, preservation, and systematic registration of Photographs 

 of Geological Interest in the United Kingdom ; — Report on the advisability and 

 possibility of establishing in other parts of the country Observations upon the 

 Prevalence of Earth Tremors similar to those now being made in Durham in connec- 

 tion with coal-mine explosions ; — Report of the Committee for working the very 

 Fossilif erous Transi' ion Bed between the Middle and Upper Lias in Northampton- 

 shire, in order to ot ain a more clear idea of its fauna, and to fix the position of 

 certain species of Fossil Fish, and more fully investigate the horizon on which they 

 occur ; — Report of the Committee to complete the investigation of the Cave at 

 Elbolton, near Skipton, in order to ascertain whether Remains of Palaeolithic Man 

 occur in the Lower Cave Earth ; — Report of the Committee for carrying on excava- 

 tions at Oldbury Hill, near Ightham, in order to ascertain the existence or otherwise 

 of Rock-shelters at 'his spot : — Fourth Report on the present state of our knowledge 

 of the Zoology and Botany of the West India Islands, and on the steps taken to 

 investigate ascerta'ned deficiencies in the Fauna and Flora; — Draft Report on the 

 present state of our knowledge of the Zoology of the Sandwich Islands, and on the 

 steps taken to inve:;tigate ascertained deficiencies in the Fauna; — Fifth Report of 

 the Committee for taking steps for the establishment of a Botanical Laboratory at 

 Peradeniya, Ceylon ; — Fourth Report on the Disappearance of Native Plants from their 

 Local Habitats; — Raport of the Committee for making a digest of the observations 

 on the Migration of Birds at Lighthouses and Light -vessels, which have been carried 

 on by the Migration Committee of the British Association; — Report on the occupa- 

 tion of a Table at the Laboratory of the Marine Biological Association at Plymouth ; 

 — Report on the occupation of a Table at the Zoological Station at Naples; — Report 

 of the Committee for improving and experimenting with a Deep-sea Tow-net for 

 opening and closing under water; — Report on the teaching of Science in Elementary 

 Schools ; — Third Report on the investigation of the Action of Waves and Currents 

 on the Beds and Foreshores of Estuaries by means of Working Models ; — Report of 

 the Committee for editing a new Edition of ' Anthropological Notes and Queries ; ' — 

 Seventh Report on the North-western Tribes of the Dominion of Canada; — Fifth 

 Report on the Prehistoric Inhabitants of the British Islands ; — Fourth and Final 

 Report of the Committee to arrange an Investigation of the Seasonal Variations of 

 Temperature in Lakes, Rivers, and Estuaries in various parts of the United Kingdom 

 in co-operation with the local societies represented on the Association; — On the 

 Capture of Comets by Planets, especially their Capture by Jupiter ; -The Recent 

 Progress of Agriculture in India. 



Together with the Transactions of the Sections, Dr. Huggins's Address, and Reso- 

 lutions of the General Committee of the Association. 



1894. 3 1 



