PROCEEDINGS OF THE FORTIETH MEETING, at Liverpool, September 1870, Published at 18s.

CONTENTS:-Report on Steam-boiler Explosions;-Report of the Committee on the Hæmatite Iron-ores of Great Britain and Ireland;-Report on the Sedimentary Deposits of the River Onny;-Report on the Chemical Nature of Cast Iron ;-Report on the practicability of establishing "A Close Time" for the protection of Indigenous Animals ;-Report on Standards of Electrical Resistance;-Sixth Report on Kent's Cavern ;-Third Report on Underground Temperature;-Second Report of the Committee appointed to get cut and prepared Sections of Mountain-Limestone Corals ;-Second Report on the Stability, Propulsion, and Sea-going Qualities of Ships;-Report on Earthquakes in Scotland;-Report on the Treatment and Utilization of Sewage;-Report on Observations of Luminous Meteors, 1869-70;-Report on Recent Progress in Elliptic and Hyperelliptic Functions ;Report on Tidal Observations;-On a new Steam-power Meter;-Report on the Action of the Methyl and Allied Series ;-Report of the Rainfall Committee;-Report on the Heat generated in the Blood in the process of Arterialization;-Report on the best means of providing for Uniformity of Weights and Measures. Together with the Transactions of the Sections, Prof. Huxley's Address, and Recommendations of the Association and its Committecs.

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BRITISH ASSOCIATION

FOR

THE ADVANCEMENT OF SCIENCE.

LIST

OF

OFFICERS, COUNCIL, AND MEMBERS.

CORRECTED TO DECEMBER 1871.

PRESIDENT.

SIR WILLIAM THOMSON, M.A., LL.D., D.C.L., F.R.SS.L. & E., Professor of Natural Philosophy in the University of Glasgow.

VICE-PRESIDENTS.

His Grace The DUKE OF BUCCLEUCH, K.G., D.C.L., | Sir RODERICK I. MURCHISON, Bart., K.C.B.,
F.R.S.

The Right Hon. The LORD PROVOST of Edinburgh.
The Right Hon. JOHN INGLIS, D.C.L., LL.D., Lord
Justice General of Scotland.

Sir ALEXANDER GRANT, Bart., M.A., Principal of
the University of Edinburgh.

G.C.ST.S., D.C.L., F.R.S.

Sir CHARLES LYELL, Bart., D.C.L., F.R.S., F.G.S.
Dr. LYON PLAYFAIR, M.P., C.B., F.R.S.
Professor Sir R. CHRISTISON, Bart., M.D., D.C.L.,
Pres. R.S.E.

Professor BALFOUR, M.D., F.R.SS. L. & E.

PRESIDENT ELECT.

DR. W. B. CARPENTER, LL.D., F.R.S., F.L.S., F.G.S.

VICE-PRESIDENTS ELECT.

The Right Hon. the EARL OF CHICHESTER, Lord His Grace The DUKE OF DEVONSHIRE, K.G., Lieutenant of the County of Sussex.

His Grace The DUKE OF NORFOLK.

His Grace The DUKE OF RICHMOND, K.G., P.C.,
D.C.L.

D.C.L., F.R.S.

Sir JOHN LUBBOCK, Bart.,M.P.,F.R.S.,F.L.S.,F.G.S.
Dr. SHARPEY, LL.D., Sec. R.S., F.L.S.
J. PRESTWICH, Esq., F.R.S., Pres. G.S.

LOCAL SECRETARIES FOR THE MEETING AT BRIGHTON.

The President and President Elect, the Vice-Presidents and Vice-Presidents Elect, the General and Assistant General Secretaries, the General Treasurer, the Trustees, and the Presidents of former years, viz.:

Rev. Professor Sedgwick.

The Duke of Devonshire.
The Rev. T. R. Robinson, D.D.
G. B. Airy, Esq.,Astronomer Royal.
General Sir E. Sabine, K.C.B.
The Earl of Harrowby.

The Duke of Argyll."

The Rev. H. Lloyd, D.D.
Richard Owen, M.D., D.C.L.
Sir W. Fairbairn, Bart., LL.D.
The Rev. Professor Willis, F.R.S.
Sir W. G. Armstrong, C.B., LL.D.
Sir Chas. Lyell, Bart., M.A., LL.D.

GENERAL SECRETARIES.

Professor Phillips, M.A., D.C.L.
William R. Grove, Esq., F.R.S.
The Duke of Buccleuch, K.B.
Dr. Joseph D. Hooker, D.C.L.
Professor Stokes, C.B., D.C.L.
Prof. Huxley, LL.D.

Dr. THOMAS THOMSON, F.R.S., F.L.S., The Athenæum Club, Pall Mall, London, S.W.
Capt. DOUGLAS GALTON, C.B., R.E., F.R.S., 12 Chester Street, Grosvenor Place, London, S.W.

ASSISTANT GENERAL SECRETARY.

GEORGE GRIFFITH, Esq., M.A., Harrow.

GENERAL TREASURER.

WILLIAM SPOTTISWOODE, Esq., M.A., LL.D., F.R.S., F.R.G.S., 50 Grosvenor Place, London, S. W.

AUDITORS.

G. Busk, Esq., F.R.S.

Warren De La Rue, Esq., D.C.L., F.R.S.

John Evans, Esq., F.R.S.