PROCEEDINGS of the EIGHTH MEETING, at Newcastle, 1838, 
Published at 1 5s. 
Contents :—Rev. W. Whewell, Account of a Level Line, measured from the Bristol Chan¬ 
nel to the English Channel, by Mr. Bunt;—Report on the Discussions of Tides, prepared 
under the direction of the Rev. W. Whewell;—W. S. Harris, Account of the Progress and 
State of the Meteorological Observations at Plymouth ;— Major E. Sabine, on the Magnetic 
Isoclinal and Isodynarnic Lines in the British Islands ; — D. Lardncr, I.L.D., on the Determi¬ 
nation of the Mean Numerical Values of Railway Constants; — R. Mallet, First Report upon 
Experiments upon the Action of Sea and River Water upon Cast and Wrought Iron ;—R. 
Mallet, on the Action of a Heat of 212° Fahr., when long continued, on Inorganic and Or¬ 
ganic Substances, 
Together with the Transactions of the Sections, Mr. Murchison's Address, ami Recommen¬ 
dations of the Association and its Committees. 
PROCEEDINGS of the NINTH MEETING, at Birmingham, 1839, 
Published at 13s. 6d. 
Contents: —Rev. B. Powell, Report on the Present State of our Knowledge of Refractive 
Indices, for the Standard Rays of the Solar Spectrum in different media;—Report on the Ap¬ 
plication of the Sum assigned for Tide Calculations to Rev. W. Whewell, in a Letter from T. G. 
Bunt, Esq. ;— H. L-. Pattinson, on some galvanic Experiments to determine the Existence or 
Non-Existence of Electrical Currents among Stratified Rocks, particularly those of the Moun- 
j?' ,n Limestone formation, constituting the Lend Measures of Alston Moor;—Sir D. Brewster, 
Reports respecting the tw o series of Hourly Meteorological Observations kept in Scotland ;— 
Report on the subject of a series of Resolution* nil up led by the British Association at their 
Meeting in August 1838, at Newcastle;—R. Owen, Report on British Fossil Reptiles; — E. 
Forbes, Report on the Distribution of pulntonlferous Mollusca in the British Isles; — W. S. 
Harris, Third Report on the Progress of the Hourly Meteorological Register at the Plymouth 
Dockyard. ’ 
Together with the Transactions of the Section*, Rev. W. Vernon Harcourt's Address, and 
Kecorametulations of the Association and it* Committees. 
PROCEEDINGS of the TENTH 
Published at 1 5s. 
MEETING, at Glasgow, 1810, 
licit TEN ™ : —^ ev ' Keport on the recent Progress of discovery relative to Radiant 
n ’ 1 SU Pi; , f lent ?'7 *0 a former Report on the same subject inserted in the first volume of the 
he Rri,ish Association fur the Advancement of Science;—J. D. Forbes, Supple- 
nuw ; ry R T rt Meteorology ;—W. S. Harris, Report on Prof. Whewell** Anemometer, 
Loud" °P eral ") n at Plymouth ;—Report on " The Motions and Sounds of the Heart,” by the 
• miUe<? 0f l,ie Br5,isl * Association, for 1839-40 ;—Prof. Scbdnbein, an Account of 
"'ater' 1 h*'? E1 ® c,l0 -Ch e mi8try [—R. Mallet, Second Report upon the Action of Air and 
WmjJt er < ? csl1 or sa,t » c| e*r or foul, and at various temperatures, upon Cast Iron, 
peratifrp. i ! —" ‘ Fox ’ Kl T < "' t 0,1 some Observations on Subterranean Tcm- 
and IfiJo i n ‘ o !p r * Ue l ,or ‘ on tbe Observation* recorded during the years 1837, 1838, 1839 
minjthamV ' re S»iering Anemometer erected at the Philosophical Institution, Re¬ 
servation,,' v . U * ,* WSter ' Report respecting the two Series of Hourly Meteorological Ob- 
Thomnsnn n * l 1,,Vc 1 rn08S and Kingussie, from Nov. 1st, 1838 to Nov. 1st, 1839;—W 
^torkSSS “• , l a VsV a V f , ,rcland: Div * P^tebruta C. J. B. Williams, M.D., 
Report ofSRES; ° n ‘ he , 1 ty aWo W 1 of thc Kung* and Air-Tube*;—Rev. J. S. Henslow, 
Together *s,i lx 11 ,hc l f e*ervulion ol Animal and Vegetable Substance*. 
jSLSSiTfi; Sr* 1 “** E - **«-•• 
^Sms.V 1 ELEVENTH MEETING. Plymouth, 
°" thc , J resent * ,ate of °" r Theoretical and Experimental 
T *O.Bun t ,Re l !ort^ 1 “[^ nduc ‘ , " n , of Hca, ^ G - L - Houpcll, M.D., Report on Poisons — 
Roas. Report onthTnie?* f ^T J T !?W d * r lhe «»*"ft*o"ofthc Rev.W. Whewell; 
?*!• Whewell ;-l! s D | r° ni 1"}° Observation*, under the direction of the 
tl'T ,he P a « year —Renmtnf " P r ‘ ,h °. WOrk,n B of Whewell** Anemometer at Plymouth 
ln 8 tlic scientifie^n .port of n Committee appointed for the purpose of *unerinto>.d 
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