RESEARCHES IN SCIENCE. XVll 



servations, made as commanded by the British Association, by the Rev. T. 

 R. Robinson, D.D. 



On some Experiments on the Electricity of Metallic Veins, and the Tem- 

 perature of Mines, by Robert Were Fox. 



Provisional Report of the Committee of the Medical Section of the British 

 Association, appointed to investigate the Composition of Secretions, and the 

 Organs producing them. 



Report from the Committee for inquiring into the Analysis of the Glands, 

 &c. of the Human Body, by G. O. Rees, M.D., F.G.S. 



Second Report of the London Sub-Committee of the Medical Section of 

 the British Association, on the Motions and Sounds of the Heart. 



Report from the Committee for making experiments on the Growth of 

 Plants under Glass, and without any free communication with the outward 

 air, on the plan of Mr. N. I. Ward, of London. 



Report of the Committee on Waves, appointed by the British Association 

 at Bristol in 1836, and consisting of Sir John Robison, K.H., Secretary of 

 the Royal Society of Edinburgh, and John Scott Russell, Esq., M.A., F.R.S. 

 Edin. (Reporter). 



On the relative Strength and other mechanical Properties of Cast Iron ob- 

 tained by Hot and Cold Blast, by Eaton Hodgkinson, Esq. 



On the Strength and other Properties of Iron obtained from the Hot and 

 Cold Blast, by W. Fairbairn, Esq. 



1838. 



Account of a Level Line, measured from the Bristol Channel to tlie En- 

 glish Channel, during the Year 1837-38, by Mr. Bunt, under the Direction 

 of a Committee of the British Association. Drawn up by the Rev. W. 

 Whewell, F.R.S., one of the Committee. 



A Memoir on the Magnetic Isoclinal and Isodynamic Lines in the British 

 Islands, from Observations by Professors Humphrey Lloyd and John Phil- 

 lips, Robert Were Fox, Esq., Captain James Clark Ross, R.N., and Major 

 Edward Sabine, R.A., by Major Edward Sabine, R.A., F.R.S. 



First Report on the Determination of the Mean Numerical Values of Rail- 

 way Constants, by Dionj-^sius Lardner, LL.D., F.R.S., &c. 



First Report upon Experiments, instituted at the request of the British 

 Association, upon the Action of Sea and River Water, whether clear or foul, 

 and at various temperatures, upon Cast and Wrought Iron, by Robert Mal- 

 let, M.R.LA., Ass. Ins. C.E. 



Notice of Experiments in progress, at the desire of the British Association, 

 on the Action of a Heat of 212° Fahr., when long continued, on Inorganic 

 and Organic Substances, by Robert Mallet, M.R.I.A. 



Experiments on the ultimate Transverse Strength of Cast Iron made at 

 Arigna Works, Co. Leitrim, Ireland, at Messrs. Bramah and Robinson's, 29th 

 May, 1837. 



Provisional Reports, and Notices of Progress in Special Researches en- 

 trusted to Committees and Individuals. 



1839. 



Report on the application of the sum assigned for Tide Calculations to 

 Mr. Whewell, in a Letter from T. G. Bunt, Esq., Bristol. 



Notice of Determination of the Arc of Longitude between the Observato- 

 ries of Armagh and Dublin, by the Rev. T. R. Robinson, D.D., &c. 



Report of some Galvanic Experiments to determine the existence or non- 

 existence of Electrical Currents among Stratified Rocks, particularly those of 

 the Mountain Limestone formation, constituting the Lead Measures of Alston 

 Moor, by H. L. Pattinson, Esq. 



