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On the Theory of Exchanges, and its recent extension. By BALFOUR

STEWART, A.M..........................

On the Recent Progress and Present Condition of Manufacturing Che-

mistry in the South Lancashire District. By Drs. E. SCHUNck,

R. ANGUS SMITH, and H. E. Roscoe

On Ethno-Climatology; or, the Acclimatization of Man. By JAMES

HUNT, Ph.D., F.S.A., F.R.S.L., Foreign Associate of the Anthropolo-

gical Society of Paris, Honorary Secretary of the Ethnological Society

of London.......

On Experiments on the Gauging of Water by Triangular Notches. By

JAMES THOMSON, M.A., Professor of Civil Engineering, Queen's

College, Belfast

Report on Field Experiments and Laboratory Researches on the Con-

stituents of Manures essential to cultivated Crops. By Dr. AUGUSTUS

VOELCKER, Royal Agricultural College, Cirencester......

Provisional Report on the Present State of our Knowledge respecting

the Transmission of Sound-signals during Fogs at Sea. By HENRY

HENNESSY, F.R.S., Professor of Natural Philosophy in the Catholic

University of Ireland.........

Report on the Present State of our Knowledge of the Birds of the

Genus Apteryx living in New Zealand. By PHILIP LUTLEY SCLA-

TER and FERDINAND VON HOCHSTETTER

Report of the Results of Deep-sea Dredging in Zetland; with a Notice

of several Species of Mollusca new to Science or to the British Isles.

By J. GWYN JEFFREYS, F.R.S., F.G.S..

Contributions to a Report on the Physical Aspect of the Moon. By

J. PHILLIPS, M.A., LL.D., F.R.S., Professor of Geology, Oxford ... 180

Contribution to a Report on the Physical Aspect of the Moon. By W.

R. BIRT, F.R.A.S.

Preliminary Report of the Dredging Committee for the Mersey and Dee.

By Dr. COLLINGWOOD and Mr. BYERLEY

Third Report of the Committee on Steam-ship Performance................. 190

Preliminary Report on the Best Mode of Preventing the Ravages of

Teredo and other Animals in our Ships and Harbours. By J. GWYN

JEFFREYS, F.R.S., F.G.S. ....

Report of the Experiments made at Holyhead (North Wales) to ascer-

tain the Transit-Velocity of Waves, analogous to Earthquake Waves,

through the local Rock Formations: by command of the Royal Society

and of the British Association for the Advancement of Science. By

ROBERT MALLET, C.E., F.R.S.

On the Explosions in British Coal-Mines during the year 1859. By

THOMAS DOBSON, B.A., Head Master of the School Frigate "Con-

way," Liverpool

Continuation of Report on Steam Navigation at Hull. By JAMES

OLDHAM, C.E., Member of the Institution of Civil Engineers......... 239

Brief Summary of a Report on the Flora of the North of Ireland. By

Professor G. DICKIE, M.D....................................

On the Psychical and Physical Characters of the Mincopies, or Natives

of the Andaman Islands, and on the Relations thereby indicated to

other Races of Mankind. By Professor OWEN, F.R.S. &c. ..... 241

Report from the Balloon Committee. By Colonel SYKES, M.P., F.R.S. 249

Report on the Repetition of the Magnetic Survey of England, made at

the request of the General Committee of the British Association.

By Major-General EDWARD SABINE, R.A., President of the Royal

Interim Report of the Committee for Dredging on the North and East

Coasts of Scotland............................

On the Resistance of Iron Plates to Statical Pressure and the Force of

Impact by Projectiles at High Velocities. By WILLIAM FAIRBAIRN,

Esq., LL.D., F.R.S. &c., President of the Association

Continuation of Report to determine the Effect of Vibratory Action and

long-continued Changes of Load upon Wrought-iron Girders. By

WILLIAM FAIRBAIRN, Esq., LL.D., F.R.S., &c., President of the

Association........

Report of the Committee on the Law of Patents.......................

Report on the Theory of Numbers.-Part III. By H. J. STEPHEN

SMITH, M.A., F.R.S., Savilian Professor of Geometry in the Uni-

versity of Oxford

NOTICES AND ABSTRACTS

MISCELLANEOUS COMMUNICATIONS TO THE SECTIONS.

MATHEMATICS AND PHYSICS.

Address by G. B. AIRY, Astronomer Royal, President of the Section

Mr. A. CAYLEY on Curves of the Third Order

Mr. THOMAS DOBSON on the General Forms of the Symmetrical Properties of

Plane Triangles

C. F. EKMAN'S Inquiry into the Fundamental Principles of Algebra, chiefly

with regard to Negative and Imaginary Quantities.......

M. BIERENS DE HAAN on Definite Integrals .......

Sir W. R. HAMILTON on Geometrical Rests in Space

Rev. T. P. KIRKMAN on the Roots of Substitutions

Professor PRICE on the Influence of the Rotation of the Earth on the Apparent

Path of a Heavy Particle .......

Mr. W. H. L. RUSSELL on the Calculus of Functions, with Remarks on the

Theory of Electricity

Mr. WILLIAM SPOTTISWOODE on Petzval's Asymptotic Method of solving Dif-

ferential Equations...

on the Reduction of the decadic Binary Quantic

to its Canonical Form ........

Professor SYLVESTER on the Involution of Axes of Rotation

[blocks in formation]

The ASTRONOMER ROYAL'S Remarks on Dr. Hincks's Paper on the Acceleration

of the Moon's Mean Motion as indicated by the Records of Ancient Eclipses 12

Mr. J. S. STUART GLENNIE on the Resistance of the Ether to the Comets and

Planets, and on the Rotation of the latter...

Mr. R. P. GREG on M. Haidinger's Communication on the Origin and Fall

M. W. HAIDINGER'S attempt to account for the Physical Condition and the

Fall of Meteorites upon our Planet

Rev. EDWARD HINCKS on the Quantity of the Acceleration of the Moon's

Mean Motion, as indicated by the Records of certain Ancient Eclipses .....

Mr. DANIEL VAUGHAN on Cases of Planetary Instability indicated by the ap-

pearance of Temporary Stars.........

Mr. J. S. STUART GLENNIE on the Application of the Principle of the Conser-

vation of Force to the mechanical explanation of the Correlation of Forces... 26

Professor W. THOMSON'S Physical Considerations regarding the Possible Age

of the Sun's Heat

Sir DAVID BREWSTER on Photographic Micrometers.......

on the Compensation of Impressions moving over the

on the Optical Study of the Retina..........

on Binocular Lustre ......

Mr. J. ALEXANDER DAVIES'S Observations upon the Production of Colour by

the Prism, the Passive Mental Effect or Instinct in comprehending the En-

largement of the Visual Angle, and other Optical Phenomena.

Mг. THOMAS ROSE on Presentations of Colour produced under novel conditions;

with their assumed relation to the received Theory of Light and Colour....... 32

Mr. WILLIAM THOMAS SHAW's Method of interpreting some of the Pheno-

mena of Light...........

Mr. JOHN SMITH on the Chromascope, and what it reveals.

Mr. THOMAS SUTTON on the Panoramic Lens.......

on the Prism and Chromascope.

Mr. H. H. VIVIAN'S Microscopic Observations on the Structure of Metals .....

Mr. J. J. WALKER'S Observations on an Iris seen in Water, near Sunset....... 35

The ASTRONOMER ROYAL on Spontaneous Terrestrial Galvanic Currents

on the Laws of the Principal Inequalities, Solar and

Lunar, of Terrestrial Magnetic Force in the Horizontal Plane, from obser-

vations at the Royal Observatory, Greenwich, extending from 1848 to 1857... 36

Mr. LATIMER CLARK and Sir CHARLES BRIGHT on the Formation of Stand-

ards of Electrical Quantity and Resistance................

Mr. J. P. GASSIOT on the Deposit of Metals from the Negative Terminal of an

Induction Coil during the Electrical Discharge in Vacuo

Professor HENNESSY on a Probable Cause of the Diurnal Variation of Magnetic

Dip and Declination..........

Mr. FLEEMING JENKIN on Permanent Thermo-Electric Currents in Circuits of

one Metal...........

Rev. H. LLOYD on the Secular Changes of Terrestrial Magnetism, and their

Connexion with Disturbances ....

Mr. C. W. SIEMENS on an Electric Resistance Thermometer for observing

Temperatures at inaccessible situations ....

Messrs. ARCHIBALD SMITH and F. J. EVANS on the Effect produced on the

Deviation of the Compass by the Length and Arrangement of the Compass

Needles; and on a New Mode of Correcting the Quadrantal Deviation....... 45

Mr. F. J. EVANS on H.M.S. Warrior's Compasses

Mr. B. STEWART on the Photographic Records given at the Kew Observatory

of the great Magnetic Storm of the end of August and beginning of Septem-

47

Mr. G. JOHNSTONE STONEY on the Amount of the direct Magnetic Effect of the

Sun or Moon on Instruments at the Earth's Surface.........

Mr. CHARLES TOMLINSON On Lightning Figures, chiefly with reference to those

Tree-like or Ramified Figures sometimes found on the Bodies of Men and

Animals that have been struck by Lightning ....

Mr. I. ASHE on the Causes of the Phenomena of Cyclones

Mr. JOHN ALLAN BROUN on the supposed Connexion between Meteorological

Phenomena and the Variations of the Earth's Magnetic Force.........

Mr. WILLIAM DANSON on the Law of Universal Storms........

Mr. WILLIAM FAIRBAIRN on the Temperature of the Earth's Crust, as exhi-

bited by Thermometrical Returns obtained during the sinking of the Deep

Mine at Dukinfield ......

Rear-Admiral FITZROY's Tidal Observations ..............

365

Dr. J. H. GLADSTONE on the Distribution of Fog around the British Isles...... 57

Mr. JAMES GLAISHER on a Deep-Sea Thermometer invented by Henry John-

son, Esq.

son, Esq.........

on a Deep-Sea Pressure-Gauge invented by Henry John-

on a Daily Weather Map; on Admiral FitzRoy's Paper

presented to Section A. relative to the Royal Charter Storm; and on some

Meteorological Documents relating to Mr. Green's Balloon Ascents............ 61

Mr. J. T. GODDARD on the Cloud Mirror and Sunshine Recorder ..........

Professor HENNESSY on the Connexion between Storms and Vertical Disturb-

ances of the Atmosphere

Mr. WILLIAM HOPKINS on the Theories of Glacial Motion ......

Mr. W. S. JEVONS on the Deficiency of Rain in an Elevated Rain-Gauge, as

caused by Wind.............

Mr. H. W. CRAWLEY on a Solar Halo observed at Sydney, Cape Breton, Nova

Scotia, August 13, 1861

Mr. PETER J. LIVSEY'S Description of a Mercurial Barometer, recently invented

by Mr. Richard Howson, Engineer of Middlesborough-on-Tees

Mr. E. J. Lowe on the Great Cold of Christmas 1860, and its destructive

Letter from Captain MAURY on the importance of an Expedition to the Antarctic

Regions, for Meteorological and other scientific purposes. (Communicated by

the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty) ......

Mr. JOHN E. MORGAN on an Anemometer for Registering the Maximum Force

and extreme Variation of the Wind...............

Rev. T. RANKIN's Meteorological Observations at Huggate, Yorkshire ..........

Mr. C. W. SIEMENS on a Bathometer, or Instrument to indicate the Depth of

the Sea on Board Ship without submerging a Line ...

Mr. BALFOUR STEWART on a New Minimum Mercurial Thermometer proposed

by Mr. Casella....

Rev. W. WALTON on some Signs of Changes of the Weather

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