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REPORT OF THE FIFTY-EIGHTH MEETING, at Bath, September 



1888, Published at £1 4s. 



Contents : — Third Report of the Committee for promoting Tidal Observations in 

 Canada; — Report of the Committee for considering the desirability of introducing 

 a Uniform Nomenclature for tlie Fundamental Units of Mechanics, and of co- 

 operating with other bodies engaged in similar work ; — Fourtli Report on the best 

 means of Comparing and Reducing Magnetic Observations ; — Fourth Report on 

 Standards of Light ;— Report of the Committee for co-operating with the Scottish 

 Meteorological Society in making Meteorological Observations on Ben Nevis ; — 

 Second Report on the Bibliogiapliy of Sohition:— Report, of the Committee for 

 constructing and issuing Practical Standards for use in Electrical Measurements ; — 

 Second Report on tlie Influence of Silicon on the properties of Steel ;— Third Report 

 of the Committee for inviting designs for a good Differential Gravity Meter in super- 

 session of the pendulum ;^-Report on the present metliods of teaching Chemistry ; — 

 Report on the action of Light on the Hydracids of Halogens in presence of Oxygen ;— 

 Second Report on the Nature of Solution ; — Report of the Committee for making 

 arrangements for assisting tlie Marine Biological Association Laboratory at Plymouth ; 

 — Third Report on Isomeric Naphthalene Derivatives ; — Third Report on the Pre- 

 historic Race in the Greek Islands ; — Report on the effects of different occupations and 

 employments on the Physical Development of the Human Body ; — Sixteenth Report 



