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Arrangement of the General Meetings
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Address of the President, the Rev. R. WILLIS, M.A., F.R.S., &c. . . . .
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REPORTS OF RESEARCHES IN SCIENCE.
Report on Observations of Luminous Meteors, 1861-62. By a Com-
mittee, consisting of JAMES GLAISHER, F.R.S., F.R.A.S., Secretary to
the British Meteorological Society, &c.; R. P. GREG, F.G.S., &c.;
E. W. BRAYLEY, F.R.S., &c.; and A. HERSCHEL
On the Strains in the Interior of Beams. By GEORGE BIDDELL AIRY,
F.R.S., Astronomer Royal
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Report on the three Reports of the Liverpool Compass Committee and
other recent Publications on the same subject. By ARCHIBALD SMITH,
M.A., F.R.S., and FREDERICK JOHN EVANS, R.N., F.R.S.
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Report on Tidal Observations on the Humber. Presented by JAMES
OLDHAM, C.E.; JOHN SCOTT RUSSELL, C.E., F.R.S.; J. F. BATEMAN,
C.E., F.R.S.; and THOMAS THOMPSON.
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On Rifled Guns and Projectiles adapted for Attacking Armour-plate
Defences. By T. ASTON, M.A., Barrister-at-Law..
Extracts, relating to the Observatory at Kew, from a Report presented
to the Portuguese Government by Dr. JACINTHO ANTONIO DE Souza,
Professor of the Faculty of Philosophy in the University of Coimbra.
(Communicated by J. P. GASSIOT, F.R.S.)
Report on the Dredging of the Northumberland Coast and Dogger Bank.
Drawn up by HENRY T. MENNELL, on behalf of the Natural History
Society of Northumberland, Durham, and Newcastle-on-Tyne, and
of the Tyneside Naturalists' Field Club ...
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Report of the Committee appointed at Manchester to consider and report
upon the best means of advancing Science through the agency of the
Mercantile Marine. By CUTHBERT COLLINGWOOD, M.B., F.L.S....... 122
Provisional Report of the Committee, consisting of Professor A. WIL-
LIAMSON, Professor C. WHEATSTONE, Professor W. THOMSON, Professor
W. H. MILLER, Dr. A. MATTHIESSEN, and Mr. FLEEMING JENKIN, on
Standards of Electrical Resistance
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Preliminary Report of the Committee for Investigating the Chemical and
Mineralogical Composition of the Granites of Donegal, and the Mine-
rals associated with them....
On the Vertical Movements of the Atmosphere considered in connexion
with Storms and Changes of Weather. By HENRY HENNESSY, F.R.S.,
M.R.I.A., &c., Professor of Natural Philosophy in the Catholic Uni-
versity of Ireland..
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Report of a Committee, consisting of the Rev. Dr. LLOYD, General SABINE,
Mr. A. SMITH, Mr. G. JOHNSTONE STONEY, Mr. G. B. AIRY, Professor
DONKIN, Professor WM. THOMSON, Mr. CAYLEY, and the Rev. Professor
PRICE, appointed to inquire into the adequacy of existing data for
carrying into effect the suggestion of GAUSS, to apply his General
Theory of Terrestrial Magnetism to the Magnetic Variations........ 170
On Thermo-electric Currents in Circuits of one Metal. By FLEEMING
JENKIN. (Plate I.) . . . . .
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On the Mechanical Properties of Iron Projectiles at High Velocities. By
W. FAIRBAIRN, F.R.S.
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Report on the Progress of the Solution of certain Special Problems of
Dynamics. By A. CAYLEY, F.R.S., Correspondent of the Institute.. 184.
Report on Double Refraction. By G. G. STOKES, M.A., D.C.L., Sec. R.S.,
Lucasian Professor of Mathematics in the University of Cambridge
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Fourth Report of the Committee on Steamship Performance. (Plate III.) 282
On the Fall of Rain in the British Isles during the Years 1860 and 1861.
By G. J. SYMONS, M.B.M.S. (Plate II.)
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On Thermometric Observations in the Alps. By J. BALL, M.R.I.A.,
F.L.S., &c.
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Report of the Committee for Dredging on the North and East Coasts of
Scotland. By J. GWYN JEFFREYS, F.R.S.
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Report of the Committee, consisting of the Rev. W. VERNON HARCOURT,
Right Hon. JOSEPH NAPIER, Mr. TITE, M.P., Professor CHRISTISON,
Mr. J. HEYWOOD, Mr. J. F. BATEMAN, and Mr. T. WEBSTER, on Tech-
nical and Scientific Evidence in Courts of Law
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An Account of Meteorological and Physical Observations in Eight Bal-
loon Ascents, made, under the Auspices of the Committee of the British
Association for the Advancement of Science at Manchester, by JAMES
GLAISHER, F.R.S., at the request of the Committee, consisting of
Colonel SYKES, Mr. G B. AIRY, Lord WROTTESLEY, Sir D. BREWSTER,
Sir J. HERSCHEL, Dr. LLOYD, Admiral FITZROY, Dr. LEE, Dr. ROBINSON,
Mr. GASSIOT, Mr. GLAISHER, Dr. TYNDALL, Mr. FAIRBAIRN, and Dr. W.
A. MILLER....
Report on the Theory of Numbers.-Part IV. By H. J. STEPHEN SMITH,
M.A., F.R.S., Savilian Professor of Geometry in the University of
Oxford
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APPENDIX I.
Errata in Report of Observations of Luminous Meteors, 1861-62