Report of the Annual Meeting

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Report on the Recent Progress of Theoretical Dynamics By
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ANTOINE DABBADIE on the Ethnological and Physical Characters of
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Sixteenth and final Report of a Committee consisting of Professor
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Continuation of Report on Steam Navigation at Hull By JAMES
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Dr T WOODS on the Time required by Compounds for Decomposition
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Mr J W SALTERS Note on the Fossils from Durness
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Report on the Temperature of some Deep Mines in Cornwall
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Report on the Marine Zoology of Strangford Lough County Down
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Suggestions for Statistical Inquiry into the extent to which Mercantile
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Dr HENRY BARTH on the Anomalous Period of the Rising of the Niger
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Further Report on the Vitality of the Spongiada By J S Bower
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Report of the Committee on the Magnetic Survey of Great Britain
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Report on Observations of Luminous Meteors 185657 By the
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On the Adaptation of Suspension Bridges to sustain the passage
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Mr JOHN LOCKE on the LandRevolution in Ireland
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On the Algebraic Couple and on the Equivalents of Indeterminate
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Report on the Improvement of Telescope and Equatorial Mountings
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GEOLOGY
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On the Resistance of Tubes to Collapse By WILLIAM FAIRBAIRN
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On the Mechanical Effect of combining Girders and Suspension Chains
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Evidences of Lunar Influence on Temperature By J PARK HARRISON
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Report on the Animal and Vegetable Products imported into Liverpool
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Report on the Statistics of Lifeboats and Fishingboats on the Coasts
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MATHEMATICS AND PHYSICS
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Dr J H GLADSTONE on the Colour of Salts in Solution each Constituent
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MajorGeneral SABINE on the Amount and Frequency of the Magnetic Dis
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Rev Professor HAUGHTON on a Model illustrative of Slaty Cleavage
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Messrs JUKES and DU NOYER on the Geology of Lambay Island
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Sir RODERICK I MURCHISON on the Quartz Rocks Crystalline Limestones
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Mr GEORGE V DU NOYER on the Junction of the Micaslates and Granite
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Messrs HERMANN and ROBERT SCHLAGINTWEIT on Erosion of Rivers in India 90
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Dr BUIST on the Lotus or Sacred Bean of India Communicated by
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Mr PHILIP P CARPENTERS Note on Peculiarities of Growth in Cæcidæ 102
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antiquus 104
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Mr R DOWDENS Brief Suggestion recommending a more complete Compila
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MISCELLANEOUS
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Mr W BOLLAERTs Ethnological and Antiquarian Researches in New Gra
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Mr RICHARD CULL on the Character Extent and Ethnological Value of
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Mr JOHN HOGG on the supposed Biblical Names of Baalbec and on
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Habitations in the County of Kerry 148
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Dr R SIEGERIED on an Inscription in the Language of Ancient Gaul and
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Mr J CRAWFURD on the Effects of the Gold of Australia and California 160
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Dr H MCORMAC on the Influence of inadequate or perverted Development
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Mr J W DODDS on Improvements in Iron and Steel and their Application
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Mr RICHARD H WALSH on Equitable Villages in America 170
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Mr JAMES BARTON on a detailed Model of the Boyne Viaduct which carries
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Mr J J HAYES on the Mode of rendering Peat economically available as
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Admiral MOORSOM on the want of Facts respecting the Performance of Vessels
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Mr J SCOTT RUSSELL on the Mechanical Structure of the Great Eastern Steam
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INDEX
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