PROCEEDINGS of the TWELFTH MEETING, at Manchester, 
Jests :-Report of tU Conitnittoc appoinU-d lo conducUlio 
Association in tbe System of Simultanrous Magnclical 
John Richardson, M.D., Report on the present Stale of tlic pivmouth — 
W. Snow Harris, Report on the Progress of Meteorological **, VU ility 
Secood Report of a Committee appointed to make Experiments on ^ Renort of th« 
of seeds ;-C. Vignolles, Esq.. Report of the Comm.ltec on Rail^aj 
Committee for the Preservation of Animal and Vegeulitc SuUtances :-Ly«n 
Abstract of Professor Liebigs Ucporlon “Organic Chemntry applied to 1 ^ 
.hology;--Richard Owct.rRsq.. Report on the British Fossil \ 
Hunt, Researches on the InBuencc of Light on the Gcriojuuimti of Seeds and the Growth ol 
Plants ;-LouisAgM.i*, Report on the Fossil Fishes of the Devonian S>f'n «r Old Red 
Sandstone i-WillSni Fairbairti. Esq., Appendix to a Report on J 
ponies of Cast Iron obtained from the Hot and Cold BU»t i— David Miltie, L. q.t P . - 
Committee appointed at the Meeting of the British Assomatmn hold a ‘® 
registering Shocks of Earthquakes in Creut Britain ;-Ueport of a (.omn,i tee '‘PP®'"';" ** 
llm Tenth Meeting of the Aviation for Uie Constmciion oi a ^‘*7'*"’ 
Engines, and for the determination of the Velocity of the 1 isfon of the Self K ^hins • 
different periods of the Stroke ;-J. S. Ro,«ll. Report of a Cormnillcc on the form of Ships . 
—Report of a Committee appointed lo coniider of the rules by which 
Zoology may be established on a uniform and permanent bams: —llcpori of n Committee on 
the Vital StatisUcs of large Towns in Scotland; Provisional ReporU, and NoUces of Progre. 
in Special Rescarchss entrusted to Conuniitcci and Individuals. .... , 
Together with the Trunsaciioiis of the Sections, Lord Francis Lgertons Address, and Re- 
commendations of the Association and its Committees. 
PROCEEDINGS of the THIRTEENTH MEETING, at Cork, 
1843,85. 
Contexts :-Robert Mallet, Esq., Third Report upon the Action of Air and Water, 
whether fresh or salt, clc.-»r or fwnl, and of Various Temprraturrs, upon Last Iron, » rougnt 
Iron and SteelReport of the CnmmiUcc appointed to conduct the co-nperation ot me 
British Association In ihc Syatem of Simulianeous MugnctiCAl and Mctenrulo^eiU Observa¬ 
tions Sir J. F. W. llerschel. Bart., Report of the Cmnmittep appointed for the Reduction 
of Meteorological Observntionsllepnri of tlie Coimnluec iippmnicil lor Experiments on 
Steam-Engines;— Report of tin- Couuniliee appoinicd to coiititiue their Experiments on ^he 
Vitality of SeedsJ. S. Itnssell, Esq.. Report of a Series of Ohservation* on the Tides ol the 
Frith of Furcli and the EnstCoaR ofScoilond i—J. S. Uiis«?ll, Esq., Notice of a Report of the 
Committee on the Form of ShipsL Diskr, lUq.. Report un tin- Physiological Action of Me- 
dicines!—Report of tiie Committee appoiiued to print and circulate a Report on Zoological 
Nomeiiclatiirc i-~Report of the Coniiiiiilec appoinu-il in IR42, for Registering the Shocks ot 
Earthquakes, and making such Meteorological Observations ns may appear to them desirable ; 
—Report of tlie Commiitre for coinlucting Expcriineiils with Captire Balloons i---irotebsor 
WheaUtoiie, Appendix to the Report (-licpurl of the Committee for the Translahoti and 
Pubiication of Foreign Seiuntific Mi-moirs!— C. W. I’eiich. mi the llHliits of the Marine les- 
UceaEdward Forhe.s, E»q., Beporl on the Mollusea luid !t ailiotii of the Algean Sea, and 
on their distribution, considered us hrariog on Geology ;—M. Agassix. Synoptical 
Briiisli Fossil Fishes, arranged in the order of ihe Gcolcqtiral Formations; Richard Owen, 
Esq, Report on the Britisli Fo«dl Mamnialia. Part II.;— E. W. RiiiiiBy, Report on the ex¬ 
cavation muds at ihr jnnclion of the Loner New Red Sund'.Ume with the Coal Measures at 
Collyhural, near Munrheater ; —W. Thompson, Esq., Report on the Fauna of [(^land : Div. 
— Provtslonal lleporw, and hoikea of Progress in Special Researches entrusted 
tu Conmihtees aiui Indivtdnais. 
Together with the TrnitMwlions of the Sections, Karl of Kosae's Address, and Reconinien- 
daiioiis of the Assod ition nnd Us Committees. 
PROCEEDINGS of tuf. EOUHTEENTH MEETING, at York, 1844, 
13*. Id. 
Contents:-W. B. Carpenter. M.D.,F.R.S.,on the MicroscopicStnictureofShells; —Joshua 
Alder and Albany Hancock, Report on the British NuiUbrancliiatc Mollnsea; — Robert Hunt, 
Researches on the Influence of l.ight on Ihe ncrminnllon of Seeds and the Growth of Plants; 
—Report of a Cominiitee appointed by the British Asaocintiim in 1840, for revising the No¬ 
menclature of the Siarss—l.ii'Ut.-Coliind F.dward Sabine, R.A., F.R.R., on the Meteorology 
of Toromo in Caniid.i ;— John Bluckwall, F.L.S , Report into some recent researches into the 
Structure, Functions and CEconoiny of the Araneidea made in Great Britain 5 the Earl of 
Rossc, on the Construction of large Reflecting Telescopes ;^tlie Rev. William Vernon Har-> 
