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REPORT OF THE SIXTT-SECOND MEETING, at Edinburgh, 

 August 1892, Published at £1 4s. 



Contents : — Report of the Corresponding Societies Committee ; — Report on 

 Meteorological Observations on Ben Nevis ; — Seventh Report on Electrolysis in its 

 Physical and Chemical Bearings ; — Report on the Phenomena accompanying the 

 Discharge of Electricity from Points ; — Second Report on the Ultra-violet Rays of 

 the Solar Spectrum ; — Second Report on the Application of Photography to the Elu- 

 cidation of Meteorological Phenomena ; — Twelfth Report on the Earthquake and 

 Volcanic Phenomena of Japan ; — Nineteenth Report on the Rate of Increase of 

 Underground Temperature downwards in various Localities of Dry Land and under 

 Water ; — Report of the Committee for constructing and issuing Practical Standards 

 for use in Electrical Measurements ; — Report on Electro-optics ; — Eighth Report on the 

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

 stants and Units ; — On the Application of Interference Methods to Spectroscopic 

 Measurements ; — Fourth Report on establishing an International Standard for the 

 Analj'sis of Iron and Steel ; — Sixth Report on Isomeric Naphthalene Derivatives ; — 

 Fourth Report on the Bibliography of Spectroscopy ; — Report on the Action of Light 

 on the Hydracids of the Halogens in presence of Oxygen; — Report on Wave-length 

 Tables of the Spectra of the Elements and Compounds ; — Sixth Report on the Biblio- 

 graphy of Solution ; — Sixth Report on the Nature of Solution ; — Report (provisional) 

 on the Formation of Haloids from pure Materials ; — Report (provisional) on the 

 Influence of the Silent Discharge of Electricity on Oxygen and other Gases ; — Report 

 (provisional) on the Action of Light upon Dyed Colours ; — Report on the Proximate 

 Constituents of the various kinds of Coal ; — Eighteenth Report on the Circulation of 

 the Underground Waters in the Permeable Formations of England, and the Quality 

 and Quantity of the Waters supplied to various Towns and Districts from these For- 

 mations ; — Report on the Investigation of the Cave at Elbolton ; — Twentieth Report on 

 Erratic Blocks ; — Third Report on the Registration of the Type Specimens of British 

 Fossils ; — Third Report on the Collection, Preservation, and Systematic Registration of 

 Photograplis of Geological Interest ;— Ninth Report on the Fossil Phyllopoda of the 

 Palseozoic Rocks; — Report on the Cretaceous Polyzoa ; — Report on the Volcanic Pheno- 

 mena of Vesuvius and its neighbourhood ; — 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 connection with coal-mine 

 explosions ; — Report on work done at the Zoological Station at Naples ; — Fifth Report 

 on the present state of our Knowledge of the Zoology and Botany of the West India 

 Islands, and the steps taken to investigate ascertained deficiencies in the Fauna and 

 Flora ; — Second Report on the present state of our Knowledge of the Zoology of the 

 Sandwich Islands, and the steps taken to investigate ascertained deficiencies in the 

 Fauna ; — Report on the occupation of a Table at the Laboratory of the Marine Biolo- 

 gical Association at Plymouth ; — Sixth Report on the establishment of a Botanical 

 Laboratory at Peradeniya, Ceylon ; — Report of the Committee for making a Digest 

 of the Observations on the Migration of Birds at Lighthouses and Light-vessels ; — 

 Report on a Deep-sea Tow-net for opening and closing under Water ; — Report on 

 proposals for the Legislative Protection of Wild Birds' Eggs ; — Report on the Clima- 

 tological and Hydrographical Conditions of Tropical Africa ; — Report on the Teaching 

 of Science in Elementary Schools ; — Second Report on the Development of Graphic 

 Methods in Mechanical Science ; — Shield Tunnelling in Loose Ground under Water 

 Pressure, with special reference to the Yyrnwy Aqueduct Tunnel under the Mersey ; — 

 Report of the Committee for editing a new Edition of 'Anthropological Notes and 

 Queries ; ' — Report on the Ruins of Mashonaland and the Habits and Customs of the 

 inhabitants ; — Report on the Prehistoric and Ancient Remains of Glamorganshire ;— 

 Eighth Report on the Physical Characters, Languages, and Industrial and Social Con- 

 dition of the North- Western Tribes of the Dominion of Canada; — Report on the 

 Habits, Customs, Physical Characteristics, and Religions of the Natives of India; — 

 Report on the work done in the Anthropometric Laboratory. 



Together with the Transactions of the Sections, Sir Archibald Geikie's Address, 

 and Resolutions of the General Committee of the Association. 



