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Report on the three Reports of the Liverpool Compass Committee
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Report on Tidal Observations on the Humber Presented by JAMES
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Mr A D BARTLETT on the Habits of the Ayeaye living in the Gardens
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Mr J NASMYTH on some Peculiar Features in the Structure of the Suns Sur
107
Extracts relating to the Observatory at Kew from a Report presented
109
Report on the Dredging of the Northumberland Coast and Dogger Bank
116
Report of the Committee appointed at Manchester to consider and report
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Mr THOMAS WRIGHT on the Human Remains found in the course of the
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Preliminary Report of the Committee for Investigating the Chemical
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Report of a Committee consisting of the Rev Dr LLOYD General SABINE
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On the Mechanical Properties of Iron Projectiles at High Velocities
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Report on the Progress of the Solution of certain Special Problems
184
Mr R W WOOLLCOMBE on Oblate Projectiles with Cycloidal Rotation con
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Report on Double Refraction By G G STOKES M A D C L Sec R S
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APPENDIX II
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Fourth Report of the Committee on Steamship Performance Plate III
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On the Fall of Rain in the British Isles during the Years 1860 and 1861
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On Thermometric Observations in the Alps By J BALL M R I A
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Report of the Committee for Dredging on the North and East Coasts
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Report on the Theory of Numbers Part IV By H J STEPHEN SMITH
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APPENDIX I
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MATHEMATICS AND PHYSICS
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Mr W H L RUSSELL on Recent Discoveries made in the Calculus
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Mr NORMAN POGSONS Observations on Three of the Minor Planets in 1860
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ASTRONOMY
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Dr W LAUDER LINDSAY on the Geology of the Goldfields of Auckland
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Mr T A READWIN on the Goldbearing Strata of Merionethshire 87
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Mr S P SAVILLE on a Skull of the Rhinoceros tichorhinus 94
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Rev W S SYMONDS on the Occurrence of Asplenium viride on an Isolated
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Dr CLELAND on Ribs and Transverse Processes with special relation to
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Rev W N MOLESWORTH on the Influence of Changes in the Conditions
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pterus niloticus 118
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Dr JOHN DAVY on the Coloured Fluid or Blood of the Common Earthworm
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Mr JAMES DOWIE on the Loss of Muscular Power arising from the ordi
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Mr J W OSBORNES Observations made at Sea on the Motion of the Vessel
133
Dr CHARLES T BEKES Journey to Harran in PadanAram and thence over
141
Mr W MATHEWS jun on Serious Inaccuracies in the Great Survey of
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STATISTICAL SCIENCE
150
Mr W S JEVONS on the Study of Periodic Commercial Fluctuations 157
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Mr HENRY ROBERTS Statistics showing the Increased Circulation of a Pure
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Mr CHARLES M WILLICH on Expectation of Life 178
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Mr JOHN CORYTON on VerticalWaveLine Ships SelfReefing Sails
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Professor SYLVESTER on the Solution of the Linear Equation of Finite Dif
188
Rev W EMERY on the Past and Present Expenses and Social Condition
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remarks on the Brown Coals of the Danube
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Rev Professor CHALLIS on the Augmentation of the Apparent Diameter
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Mr J P GASSIOT on the Mode of preparing Carbonic Acid Vacua in large
203
Dr A CARTE and Mr W H BAILY on a New Species of Plesiosaurus from
205
Mr WILLIAM LASSELL on a Brilliant Elliptic Ring in the Planetary Nebula
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الصفحة 141 - And Jacob came to Shalem, a city of Shechem, which is in the land of Canaan, when he came from Padan-aram; and pitched his tent before the city.
الصفحة xix - RECOMMENDATIONS. The General Committee shall appoint at each Meeting a Committee, which shall receive and consider the Recommendations of the Sectional Committees, and report to the General Committee the measures which they would advise to be adopted for the advancement of Science.
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الصفحة 248 - Recherches sur la précession des equinoxes et sur la nutation de l'axe de la terre, dans le système Newtonien.
الصفحة xlvii - Publication of the British Association Catalogue of Stars 351 14 6 Meteorological Observations at Inverness 30 18 11 Magnetic and Meteorological Cooperation 16 16 8 Meteorological Instruments at Edinburgh 18 11 9...
الصفحة 110 - Such facts show how indirectly the conditions of life must act. Again, innumerable instances are known to every naturalist of species keeping true, or not varying at all, although living under the most opposite climates. Such considerations as these incline me to lay very little weight on the direct action of the conditions of life.
الصفحة xlii - Resistance ; and that the sum of £50 be placed at their disposal for the purpose." This was the afterwards well-known Committee on Electrical Standards, which, with various additions to its list of members, continued in existence till 1870, and in furtherance of whose labours sums amounting altogether to £590 were paid by the Association. I need scarcely remind the Society that...
الصفحة xvii - General Meeting. COMPOSITIONS, SUBSCRIPTIONS, AND PRIVILEGES. LIFE MEMBERS shall pay, on admission, the sum of Ten Pounds. They shall receive gratuitously the Reports of the Association which may be published after the date of such payment. They are eligible to all the offices of the Association. ANNUAL SUBSCRIBERS shall pay, on admission, the sum of Two Pounds, and in each following year the sum of One Pound. They shall receive gratuitously the Reports of the Association for the year of their admission...
الصفحة xlii - Fox be the secretary, and that the sum of £25 be placed at their disposal for the purpose.
الصفحة 385 - I then drew up my legs, which had been extended, and took a pencil in my hand to begin observations. Mr. Coxwell told me that he had lost the use of his hands, which were black, and I poured brandy over them. I resumed my observations at 2h.

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