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Experiments to determine the Efficiency of Continuous and Self-acting 

 Breaks for Railway Trains. By William Fairbairn, F.R.S 76 



Report of Dublin Bay Dredging Committee for 1858-59. By Pro- 

 fessor J. R. Kinahan, M.D., F.L.S., M.R.I.A 80 



Report on Observations of Luminous Meteors, 1858-59. By the Rev. 

 Baden Powell, M.A., F.R.S., F.R.A.S., F.G.S., Savilian Professor 

 of Geometry in the University of Oxford 81 



Report on a Scries of Skulls of various Tribes of Mankind inhabiting 

 Nepal, collected, and presented to the British Museum, by Bryan 

 H. Hodgson, Esq., late Resident in Nepal, &c. &c. By Professor 

 Owen, F.R.S., Superintendent of the Natural History Departments 

 in the British Museum 95 



Report of the Committee, consisting of Messrs. Maskelyne, Hadow, 

 Hardwich, and Llewelyn, on the Present State of our Knowledge 

 regarding the Photographic Image 103 



Report of the Belfast Dredging Committee for 1859. By George C. 

 Hyndman, President of the Belfast Natural History and Philoso- 

 phical Society 11G 



Continuation of Report of the Progress of Steam Navigation at Hull. 

 By James Oldham, Esq., Hull, M.I.C.E 119 



Mercantile Steam Transport Economy as affected by the Consumption 

 of Coals. By Charles Atherton, Chief Engineer, Royal Dock- 

 yard, Woolwich 121 



Report on the present state of Celestial Photography in England. By 

 Warren de la Rue, Ph.D., F.R.S., Sec. R.A.S. &c ISO 



On the Orders of Fossil and Recent Reptilia, and their Distribution in 

 Time. By Professor Owen, F.R.S 153 



On some Results of the Magnetic Survey of Scotland in the years 1857 

 and 1858, undertaken, at the request of the British Association, by the 

 late John Welsh, Esq., F.R.S. By Balfour Stewart, A.M. ... 167 



The Patent Laws. — Report of Committee on the Patent Laws. Pre- 

 sented by W. Fairbairn, F.R.S 191 



Lunar Influence on the Temperature of the Air. By J. Park Har- 

 rison, M.A 193 



An Account of the Construction of the Self-recording Magnetographs 

 at present in operation at the Kew Observatory of the British Asso- 

 ciation. By Balfour Stewart, M.A 200 



Report on the Theory of Numbers. — Part I. By H. J. Stephen Smith, 

 M.A., F.C.S., Fellow of Balliol College, Oxford 228 



Report of the Committee on Steam-ship performance 268 



Report of the Proceedings of the Balloon Committee of the British As-. 

 sociation appointed at the Meeting at Leeds 289 



Preliminary Report on the Sulubility of Salts at Temperatures above 

 100° Cent., and on the Mutual Action of Salts in Solution. By 

 William K. Sullivan, Professor of Chemistry to the Catholic 

 University of Ireland, and the Museum of Irish Industry 291 



