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internal structure of their Spinning Organs ; — W. Fairbairn, Report of the Committee on the 

 Patent Laws; — S. Eddy, on the Lead Mining Districts of Yorkshire ; — W. Fairbairn, on the 

 Collapse of Glass Globes and Cylinders ; — Dr. E. Perceval Wright and Prof. J. Reay Greene, 

 Report on the Marine Fauna of the South and West Coasts of Ireland ; — Prof. J. Thomson, on 

 Experiments on the Measurement of Water by Triangular Notches in Weir Boards; — Major- 

 General Sabine, Report of the Committee on the Magnetic Survey of Great Britain ; — Michael 

 Connal and William Keddie, Report on Animal, Vegetable, and Mineral Substances imported 

 from Foreign Countries into the Clyde (including the Ports of Glasgow, Greenock, and Port 

 Glasgow) in the years 1853, 1854, 1855, 1856, and 1857 ; — Report of the Committee on Ship- 

 ping Statistics; — Rev. H. Lloyd, D.D., Notice of the Instruments employed in the Mag- 

 netic Survey of Ireland, with some of the Results; — Prof. J. R. Kinahan, Report of Dublin 

 Dredging Committee, appointed 1857-58 ; — Prof. J. R. Kinahan, Report on Crustacea of Dub- 

 lin District; — Andrew Henderson, on River Steamers, their Form, Construction, and Fittings, 

 with reference to the necessity for improving the present means of Shallow Water Navigation 

 on the Rivers of British India; — George C. Hyndman, Report of the Belfast Dredging Com- 

 mittee; — Appendix to Mr. Vignoles' paper "On the Adaptation of Suspension Bridges to sus- 

 tain the passage of Railway Trains;" — Report of the Joint Committee of the Royal Society and 

 the British Association, for procuring a continuance of the Magnetic and Meteorological Ob- 

 servatories ; — R. Beckley, Description of a Self-recording Anemometer. 



Together with the Transactions of the Sections, Prof. Owen's Address, and Recommenda- 

 tions of the Association and its Committees. 



