a Committee on the Preservation of Vegetative Powers in SeedsDr. Hodgkin, on Inquiries 
into the Races of ManReport of the Committee appointed to report how Ur the Desiderata 
in oar knowledge of the Condition of the Upper Strata of the Atmosphere may be supplied by 
means of Ascents in Balloons or otherwise, to ascertain the probable expense of such Expert- 
ments and to draw up Direction, for Observers in such circumstancesR. Owen,, Report 
on British Fossil Reptiles i—Reports on the Determination of the Mean Value of Railway 
Constants:—D. Lardner, LL.D., Second and concluding Report on the Determination of the 
Mean Value of Railway Constants ;—E. Woods, Report on Railway Constants Report of a 
Committee on the Construction of a Constant Indicator for Steam-Engines. 
Together with the T fractions of the Sections, Prof. WhewelTs Address, and Recommen¬ 
dations of the Association and its Committees. 
PROCEEDINGS or the TWELFTH MEETING, at Manchester, 
1812, Published at 10s. 6d. 
Contents : —Report of the Committee appointed to conduct the co-operation of the British 
Association in the System of .Simultaneous Mngncticnl and Meteorological Observations; 
J, Richardson, M.D., Report on the present State of the Ichthyology of New Zealand; 
W. S. Harris, Report on the Progress (if Meteorological Observations at Plymouth becon 
Report of a Committee appointed to make Experiments on the Growth and Vitality' of Seeds: 
—C. Vignolca, Report uf tlm Committee on Railway Sections;—Report of the Committee 
for the Preservation of Animal and Vegetable Substance* [—Lyon Playfair, M.D., Austrsc^ 
of Prof, Liebig's Report on " Organic Chemistry applied to Physiology and Pathology ; 
R. Owen, Report on the Brill. h Fossil Mammalia, Part I.;—R. Hunt, Researches on tne 
Influence of Light on the Germination of Seed, and the Growth of Plant*; — L. Agassi*, Kcpor 
on the Fossil Fishes of the Devonian System or Old [ted Sandstone :—W. Fairbaurn, p* 
pendix to a Report on the Strength ond other Properties of Cast Iron obtained front the Ho 
and Cold Blast;—U. Milne, Report of the Committee for registering Shocks of Earthquakes 
in Great Britain ;—Report of a Committee on the Construction of a Constant Indicator for Steam- 
Engine*, and for the determination of the Velocity of the Piston of the Self-acting Engine a 
different period* of the Stroke ; — J. S. Russell, Report of a Committee on the form of Ships: 
— Report of a Committee appointed " to consider of the rules by which the Nomenclature of 
Zoology may be established on a uniform and permanent basis; ”—Report of a Committee on 
the Vital Statistics of large Towns in Scotland ;—Provisional Reports, and Notices of Progress 
in Special Re.earclios entrusted to Committees and Individuals. 
Together with the Trsn.aclions of the Sections, Lord Francis Egerton’s Address, and Re¬ 
commendation* of the Asiocistion and its Committees. 
PROCEEDINGS ok the THIRTEENTH MEETING, at Cork, 
1843, Published at 12s. 
Contests -.—Robert Mallet, Third Report upon thr Action of Air and Water, whether 
fre»h or salt, clrar or foul, and of Various Temperatures, upon Cost Iron, Wrought Iren an 
Steel;— Report of the Committee appointed to conduct the co-operation of the British As¬ 
sociation in the Syrian of Siuiulutieou* Magnetics) and Meteorological Observation* t— - ,r 
J. P. W. Ilcrschcl, Bart., Report of the Committee appointed for the Redaction of Meteoro¬ 
logical Observation*;—Report of the Committee appointed for Experiments on Steam - 
Engine*;—Report of the Committee appointed to continue their Experiment* on the Vitality 
of Seed.;— J. S. RuuelI, Report of a Series of Observation* ou the Tides of the Frith of 
Forth and the Etui Coast of Scotland; —J. S. Russell, Nultre of a Report of the Committee 
on the Form of Ship*J, Blake, Report on the Physiological Action of MedicinesRepot* 
of the Committee on Zoological Nomenclature;—Report of the Committee for Registering 
the Shock* of Earthquake*, and making such Meteorological Observations as may appear 10 
them desirable p— Report of the Committee for conducting Experiments with Captive Balloons; 
—Prof. WheaUtonc. Appendix to thr Report;—Report of the Committee for the Translation 
and Publication of Foreign Scientific Memoir*;—C. W. Peach, on the Habits of the Marine 
Teitace*;—E. Forhc, Report on the Motlusca and Radiata of die zF.gean Sea, and on their 
distribution, considered a* hearing on Geology;—L. Agassiz, Synoptical Table of Britisti 
Fov.il Flahe*. arranged in the order of the Geological Formations;—R. Owen, Report on the 
British Fossil Mammalia, Part II. ;— E. W. Binney, Report on the excavation made at 1 e 
junction of the Lower New R«d Sandstone with the Coal Measures at Collyhurst;— 
Thompson, Repotr on thr Fauna of Ireland: Div. liwertebrata ;—Provisional Reports, 
Notice* of Progress In Special Researches entrusted to Committees ami Individuals. 
Together with the Transaction* of the Sections, liurl of Rosm’s Address, and Recommen¬ 
dation* of the Association and it* Committees. 
