NOTICES 
AND 
ABSTRACTS OF COMMUNICATIONS 
TO 
THE BRITISH ASSOCIATION 
FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF SCIENCE, 
AT 
THE DUBLIN MEETING, AUGUST 1835. 
[From the London and Edinburgh Philosophical Magazine and Journal of Science.~\ 
TPHE contributions to science received at the annual meet- 
ings of the British Association are of two classes,—the one 
consisting of reports and researches executed under its im¬ 
mediate impulse and direction, the other of miscellaneous 
communications, the authors of which choose this method of 
bringing new facts or theories into notice, and of submitting 
them to public discussion. 
Without undervaluing in any degree the latter class of con¬ 
tributions, the Association deems it.advisable to deal with 
them in such a manner as to avoid any interference with the 
Transactions of other Institutions : with this view it has dis¬ 
couraged the production, at its meetings, of papers in a state 
for publication in such Transactions ; and whilst it prints at 
full length those reports and researches which are directly 
its own, it has refrained from publishing the miscellaneous 
communications in any other form than that of notices and 
abstracts. 
At the last meeting it was determined to draw the line of 
distinction still more completely, and at the same time to af¬ 
ford a speedier opportunity of publishing views brought for¬ 
ward for the sake of early notice and discussion, by transfer¬ 
ring the abstracts of all the miscellaneous papers communi¬ 
cated to the Meeting from the annual Report of the Association 
to the periodical journals of science. 
As in regard to the number and value of scientific contri¬ 
butions, so in other respects the meeting at Dublin fulfilled 
