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Report on the Teaching of Science in Elementary Schools .... 268 

 Report on the Preparation of a New Series of Wave-length Tables of the Spectra 



of the Elements 273 



Report on the Proximate Constituents of Coal 340 



Interim Report on the Production of Haloids from Pure Materials . . . 347 



Report on the Action of Light upon Dyed Colours 347 



Third and Final Report on the Stonesfield Slate 356 



Seventh Report on the Collection, Preservation, and Systematic Registration of 



Photographs of Geological Interest in the United Kingdom . . . 357 



First Report on the Erratic Blocks of the British Isles 366 



Interim Report on the Structure of a Coral Reef 377 



Report on the Character of the High-level Steel-bearing Deposits in Kintyre . 378 



Preliminary Report on the Selangor Caves 399 



Report on the Relation of Paleolithic Man to the Glacial Epoch . . . 400 



Report on the Life-zones in the British Carboniferous Rocks .... 415 

 Fourth and Final Report on the Marine Zoology, Botany and Geology of the 



Irish Sea 417 



Report on the Investigation into the Life-history and Economic Relations of 



the Coccidce of Ceylon, by Mr. E. E. Geeen 450 



Report on making a Digest of the Observations on the Migration of Birds at 



Lighthouses and Light- vessels, 1880-1887 451 



Report on the Post Office Regulations regarding the Carriage of Natural History 



Specimens to Foreign Countries 477 



Report on the Occupation of a Table at the Zoological Station at Naples . . 478 



Report on African Lake Fauna 484 



Report on Investigations made at the Laboratory of the Marine Biological 



Association at Plymouth 485 



Report on the Necessity for the Immediate Investigation of the Biology of 



Oceanic Islands 487 



Report on the Compilation of an Index Generum et Specierum Animalium . 489 



Report on Zoological Bibliography and Publication 490 



Sixth Report on the Zoology of the Sandwich Islands 492 



Ninth Report on the Present State of our Knowledge of the Zoology and 

 Botany of the West India Islands, and on taking Steps to Investigate ascer- 

 tained Deficiencies in the Fauna and Flora 493 



Interim Report on the Position of Geography in the Educational System of the 



Country 494 



Fifth Report on the Climatology of Africa 495 



Report on the Effect of Wind and Atmospheric Pressure on the Tides . . 503 

 Report on the means by which Practical Effect can be given to the Introduc- 

 tion of the Screw Gauge proposed by the Association in 1884 , . . 527 

 Report on the Calibration of Instruments used in Engineering Laboratories . 538 

 On the Physical and Engineering Features of the River Mersey and Port of 



Liverpool. By George Fosbeey Lystee, M.Inst.C.E 548 



Eleventh Report on the North- Western Tribes of Canada 569 



Report on the Mental and Physical Defects of Children 592 



Fourth Report on an Ethnographical Suryey of the United Kingdom . . 607 



Third Report on the Lake Village at GlastonUury 656 



Report on the Linguistic and Anthropological Characteristics of the North 



Dravidian and Kolarian races — the Urawws 659 



First Report on the Elucidation of the Life Conditions of the Oyster nnder 

 Normal and Abnormal Environment, including in the latter the effect of 



sewage matter and pathogenic organisms 663 



Report on the Physiological Applications of the Phonograph .... 669 



On the Ascent of Water in Trees. By Fbancis Daewin, F.R.S. . . . 674 

 Report on the best Methods of Preserving Vegetable Specimens for E.xhibition 



in Museums 684 



The Transactions of the Sections 697 



Index 1027 



List of Publications ] 053 



(Appendix, List of Members, pp. 1-116). 



