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REPORT OF THE SIXTY-THIRD MEETING, at Nottingham, 

 September 1893, Published at £1 is. 



Contents :— Address by the President, Professor Bnrdon Sanderson; — Report 

 of the Corresponding Societies Committee ; — Report on the Tables connected with 

 the Pellian Equation from the Point where the work was left by Degen in 1817 ; — 

 Interim Report on the Establishment of a National Physical Laboratory ;— Interim 

 Report on the best means of Comparing and Reducing Magnetic Observations ; — 

 Report on Electro-optics ; — Report on Magnetic Work at the Falmouth Observatory; 

 — Report on Practical Standards for Electrical Measurements ; — Third Report on 

 the Application of Photography to the Elucidation of Meteorological Phenomena ; — 

 Ninth Report on the best methods of recording the direct Intensity of Solar Radia- 

 tion ; — Report on the present state of our Knowledge in Electrolysis and Electro- 

 chemistry ; — Thirteenth Report on the Earthquake and Volcanic Phenomena of 

 Japan ; — Interim Report on the Bibliography of Spectroscopy ; — Report of the Com- 

 mittee for Calculating Tables of certain Mathematical Functions ;— Report on 

 Meteorological Observations on Ben Nevis ;— Report on Earth Tremors;— The Action 

 of Magnetism on Light, with a critical correlation of the various Theories of Light- 

 propagation, by J. Larmor;— Interim Report on the Bibliography of Solution; — 

 Report on the Action of Light upon Dyed Colours;— Seventh Report on Isomeric 

 Naphthalene Derivatives; — Report on Wave-length Tables of the Spectra of the 

 Elements and Compounds : — Fifth Report on establishing an International Standard 

 for the Analysis of Iron and Steel; — Report on Solution ;— Report on the Influence 

 of the Silent Discharge of Electricity on Oxygen and other Gases ; — Bacteriology in 

 its Relations to Chemical Science, by Percy Frankland ; — Nineteenth Report on the 

 Circulation of Underground Waters ; — Tenth Report on the Phyllopoda of the 

 Palasozoic Rocks ; — Report on the Eurypterid-bearing Deposits of the Pentland Hills ; 

 — Report on the Volcanic Phenomena of Vesuvius and its Neighbourhood ; — Report 

 on the Collection, Preservation, and Systematic Registration of Photographs of 

 Geological Interest in the United Kingdom ;— Fourth Report on the Registration of 

 the Type Specimens of British Fossils ;— Report on the Character of the High-level 

 Shell-bearing Deposits at Clava, Chapelhall, and other localities ; — Twenty-first 

 Report on the Erratic Blocks of England, Wales, and Ireland ; —Third Report on the 

 present state of our Knowledge of the Zoology of the Sandwich Islands ; — Interim 

 Report of the Committee for making a Digest of the Observations on the Migration 

 of Birds at Lighthouses and Light-vessels; — Sixth Report on the present state of our 

 Knowledge of the Zoology and Botany of the West India Islands ; — Report on the 

 Marine Zoology of the Irish Sea ; — Report on the Occupation of a Table at the Zoolo- 

 gical Station at Naples ;— Report on Investigations made at the Laboratory of the 

 Marine Biological Association, Plymouth ; — Report on the Physiological Action 

 of the Inhalation of Oxygen in Asphyxia, more especially in Coal Mines ; — Report on 

 the Legislative Protection of Wild Birds' Eggs; — Report on the Compilation of 

 an Index Generum et Specierum Aniiualium ; — Report on Scottish Place-names; 

 — Report on the Exi^loration of Ancient Remains in Abyssinia ; — Report on the 

 Exploration of the Glacial Region of the Karakoram Mountains ; — Report on 

 the Teaching of Science in Elementary Schools ; — Interim Report on the Methods 

 of Economic Training adopted in this and other Countries ; — Report on the 

 Climatological and Hydrographical Conditions of Tropical Africa ; — Interim Report 

 on the Dryness of Steam in Boiler Trials ; — Report on the Development of Graphic 

 Methods in Mechanical Science, by H. Hele-Shaw ; — Report on the Physical Deviations 

 from the Normal among Children in Elementary and other Schools ; — First Report 

 on the Ethnographical Survey of the United Kingdom ; — Interim Report on the 

 North-Western Tribes of Canada ; — Report of the Anthropometric Laboratory Com- 

 mittee ; — Report on Uniformity in the Spelling of Barbaric and Savage Languages 

 and Race-names ; —The Automatic Balance of Reciprocating Mechanism, by W. 

 Worby Beaumont. 



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