CONTENTS. 
Preface .. vii 
FIRST REPORT—1831. 
Preface to the First Report .... 9 
Proceedings of the General Meeting ... 15 
Proceedings of the General Committee . 45 
Recommendations of the Sub-Committees .. 48 
Transactions. 56 
SECOND REPORT—1832. 
Proceedings of the General Meeting ....... 95 
Proceedings of the General Committee .... Ill 
Recommendations of the Committees.. 115 
TRANSACTIONS 
Report on the Progress of Astronomy during the present Century. 
By G. B. Airy, M.A., F.R. Ast. Soc., F.G.S., Fellow of the 
American Academy of Arts and Sciences; late Fellow of Trinity 
College, Cambridge ; and Plumian Professor of Astronomy and 
Experimental Philosophy in the University of Cambridge .... 125 
Report on the Tides. By J. W. Lubbock, V.P. & Treas. R.S... 189 
Report upon the Recent Progress and Present State of Meteorology. 
By James D. Forbes, Esq., F.R.S. L.&TE. F.G.S., Member of 
the Royal Geographical Society, of the Society of Arts for Scot¬ 
land, and Honorary Member of the Yorkshire Philosophical So¬ 
ciety. 
Introduction, Discoveries on Heat; Systematic Works on Meteorology. 
Constitution of the Atmosphere . Temperature, Thermometers; At¬ 
mospheric Temperature ; Climatology ; Decrease with Height; Proper 
Temperature of the Globe. Atmospheric Pressure, Barometers; Perio¬ 
dical Variations; Accidental Variations; Variation with Height. Humi¬ 
dity, Hygrometers; Distribution of Vapour in the Atmosphere. At¬ 
mospheric Phcenomena and Precipitations, Winds; Rain ; Atmospherical 
Electricity, Hail; Aurora Borealis, its Influence on the Magnetic Needle. 196 
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