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REPORT OF THS SIXTY-SECOND MEETING, at Edinburgh, 

 August 1892, Published at £1 4s. 



Contents :— Keport of the Corresponding Societies Committee ;— Keport 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 

 Analysis 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 en 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 

 1895. 3 L 



