IV CONTENTS. 



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 Report of a Committee, consisting of Sir J. Herschel, Mr. Whewell, 

 and Mr. Baily, for revising the Nomenclature of tlie Stars 44 



Report of a Committee appointed at the Glasgow Meeting of the British 

 Association in September ISiO, for obtaining Instruments and Re- 

 gisters to record shocks of Earthquakes in Scotland and Ireland 46 



Report of tlie Committee for making Experiments on the Preservation 

 of Vegetative Powers in Seeds 50 



On Inquiries into the Races of Man, by Dr. Hocgkin 52 



Report of the Committee appointed to report how far the Desiderata in 

 our knowledge of the Condition of the Upper Strata of the Atmo- 

 sphere may be supplied by means of Ascents in Balloons or other- 

 wise, to ascertain the probable Expense of such Experiments, and to 

 draw up Directions for Observers in such circumstances 55 



Report on British Fossil Reptiles. By Richard Owen, Esq., F.R.S.. 

 F.G.S., &c. &c 60 



Reports on the Determination of the Mean Value of Railway Constants 205 



Second and concluding Report on the Determination of the Mean Value 

 of Railway Constants. By Dionysius Lardner, LL.D., F.R.S., &c. 205 



Report on Railway Constants. By Edward Woods 247 



Report of a Committee appointed at the Tenth Meeting of the Associa- 

 tion, on the Construction of a Constaut Indicator for Steam-Engines. 

 Members of the Committee, the Rev. Professor Moseley, M.A., 

 F.R.S., Eaton Hodgkinson, Esq., F.R.S., J. Enys, Esq 307 



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

 trusted to Committees and Individuals 325 



Varieties of Humaii Race. — Queries respecting the Human Race, to be 

 addressed to Travellers and others. Drawn up by a Committee of 

 the British Association for the Advancement of Science, appointed in 

 1839 332 



Observations made at the Magnetic Observatory at Toronto, during a 

 remarkable Magnetic Disturbance on the 25th and 26th of Septem- 

 ber, 1841 ; with Postscripts, containing the Observations of the same 

 Disturbance made at the Magnetic Observatories of Trevandrum, St. 

 Helena, and the Cape of Good Hope , 340 



