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Provisional Report on the Theory of Determinants. By J. J. SYL-

Report on the Gases evolved in Steeping Flax, and on the Composition

and Economy of the Flax Plant. By Professor HODGES, M.D......

Thirteenth Report of a Committee, consisting of H. E. STRICKLAND,

Esq., Professor DAUBENY, Professor HENSLOW, and Professor

LINDLEY, appointed to continue their Experiments on the Growth

and Vitality of Seeds

On the Chemical Action of the Solar Radiations. By ROBERT HUNT,

Observations on the Character and Measurements of Degradation of

the Yorkshire Coast. By JOHN P. BELL, M.D., Hull ................

First Report of the Committee, consisting of the EARL OF ROSSE, the

Rev. Dr. ROBINSON, and Professor PHILLIPS, appointed by the

General Committee at Belfast, to draw up a Report on the Physical

Character of the Moon's Surface, as compared with that of the Earth...

Provisional Report on Earthquake Wave-Transits; and on Seis mome-

trical Instruments. By R. MALLET, C.E., M.R.I.A. (In a Letter

to the Assistant-General Secretary.)

On the Mechanical Properties of Metals as derived from repeated Melt-

ings, exhibiting the maximum point of strength and the causes of de-

terioration. By WILLIAM FAIRBAIRN, F.R.S. &c.

Third Report on the Facts of Earthquake Phænomena. Catalogue of

recorded Earthquakes from 1606 b.c. to a.d. 1850 (continued). By

ROBERT MALLET, C.E., M.R.I.A.....

NOTICES AND ABSTRACTS

MISCELLANEOUS COMMUNICATIONS TO THE SECTIONS.

MATHEMATICS AND PHYSICS.

Mr. J. J. SYLVESTER on the Expressions for the Quotients which appear in

the application of Sturm's Method to the discovery of the Real Roots of an

LIGHT, HEAT, ELECTRICITY, MAGNETISM.

Sir DAVID BREWSTER on the Production of Crystalline Structure in Crystal-

lized Powders by Compression and Traction

-— on the Optical Phænomena and Crystallization of Tour-

maline, Titanium, and Quartz within Mica, Amethyst, and Topaz

Mr. A. CLAUDET on the Angle to be given to Binocular Photographic Pictures

for the Stereoscope..

on the Practice of the Daguerreotype....

Professor HELMHOLTZ on the Mixture of Homogeneous Colours

Professor MATTEUCCI on the Distribution of Electrical Currents in the Rota-

ting Disc of M. Arago

on the Magnetism of Rotation in Masses of Crystallized

on the Magnetism of Rotation developed in very small

Insulated Metallic Particles

Professor PHILLIPS on Magnetic Phænomena in Yorkshire

Professor PLÜCKER on Magnetism

Dr. ASTLEY P. PRICE on a new Photometer..

Mr. W. J. MACQUORN RANKINE's General View of an Oscillatory Theory of

Mr. J. D. SOLLITT on the Composition and Figuring of the Specula of Re-

flecting Telescopes

Mr. CORNELIUS VARLEY'S Description of a Graphic Telescope

Mr. J. J. WATERSTON'S Observations on the Density of Saturated Vapours and

their Liquids at the Point of Transition

on a Law of Mutual Dependence between Temperature

and Mechanical Force...

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Rev. WILLIAM SCORESBY on the Surface Temperature and Great Currents of

the North Atlantic and Northern Oceans...

on Deep-Sea Soundings and Errors therein from

Strata-Currents, with Suggestions for their investigation

Mr. W. J. MACQUORN RANKINE on a proposed Barometric Pendulum for the

Registration of the Mean Atmospheric Pressure during long Periods of Time 26

Mr. WILLIAM GRAY on a Concentric Iris, as seen from the ridge of Snowdon,

near the summit, on the morning of the 13th of June 1853, about an hour

after sunrise, projected upon the clouds floating along the sides of the Moun-

Mr. WILLIAM LAWTON on the Meteorology of Hull

Rev. T. RANKIN'S Meteorological Summary for 1852 of Observations at

Huggate, Yorkshire

Continuation, across the Country, of the Thunder and

Rain Storm, which commenced in Herefordshire on September 4th, and ter-

minated on the Yorkshire Wolds on September 5th, 1852..

ber 26th, 1852...

Notice of a terrific Thunder-Cloud on the Wolds, Septem-

Mr. R. RUSSELL on the Action of the Winds which veer from the South-West

to West, and North-West to North.

Mr. J. K. WATTS on Parhelia observed at St. Ives

Mr. JOHN WELSH on the Graduation of Standard Thermometers at the Kew

Observatory....

STRENGTH OF MATERIALS.

Professor EATON HODGKINSON on the Elasticity of Stone and Crystalline

TRIGONOMETRICAL SURVEY.

Sir JOHN BURGOYNE on the progress made in the Publication of the Trigo-

nometrical Survey

Professor T. ANDREWS on a Simple Instrument for graduating Glass Tubes..

Professor BALFOUR'S Exhibition of British Lichens, containing Dyeing Lichens

Chevalier CLAUSSEN on the Effect of Sulphate of Lime upon Vegetable Sub-

Rev. THOMAS EXLEY on the Cause of the Transmission of Electricity along

Conductors generally, and particularly as applied to the Electric Telegraph

Dr. JOHN P. GASSIOT on the Decomposition of Water under Pressure, by the

Galvanic Battery.

Mr. JOHN HALL GLADSTONE on the Corrosion of Iron-built Ships by Sugar

on the Spontaneous Decomposition of Xyloidine 41

Mr. W. R. GROVE on the Conduction of Electricity by Flame and Gases

Professor JOHNSTON on the Origin and Composition of the Mineral called

Note on the Formation of Magnesian Limestone

on the Properties and Composition of the Cocoa Leaves 43

on the Causes, Physical and Chemical, of Diversities of

M. KUKLA'S Description of some new kinds of Galvanic Batteries .

Mr. G. Lowe's Note on the Advantages arising from the Purification of Coal-

Gas, by the Application of Water in an Instrument called "The Scrubber"..

Mr. T. J. PEARSALL on Changes observed in Wood from the Submerged

Forest at Wawne in Holderness.

on Crystals from the Sea-coast of Africa....

on Lime Flowers, or peculiarly formed Substances from

the brickwork of one of the Reservoirs of the Hull Water-works before final

completion for use

Dr. ASTLEY P. PRICE on the Employment of Pentasulphate of Calcium

as a Means of preventing and destroying the Oidium Tuckeri, or Grape

Value of Oxide of Manganese

on a New Method for determining the Commercial

on a New Method for determining the Amount of

available Chlorine contained in Hypochlorites of Lime, Soda, or Potash....
Mr. J. D. SOLLITT on the Chemical Constitution of the Humber Deposits

Dr. J. BLAKE on the Comparative Richness of Auriferous Quartz extracted at

different Depths from the same Lode

Professor BUCKMAN on the Cornbrash of Gloucestershire and part of Wilts ..

Mr. E. CHARLESWORTH'S Notice of the curious Spiral Body in certain Fossil

Sponges, and of several other remarkable Fossils from the Yorkshire Strata 51

Mr. HENRY DENNY on the Remains of the Hippopotamus found in the Aire

Valley Deposit near Leeds......

Professor JOHNSTON on a Chemical Cause of Change in the Composition of

Mr. GEORGE G. KEMP on the Waste of the Holderness Coast

Professor PHILLIPS on the most Remarkable Cases of Unconformity among

the Strata of Yorkshire

on the Dispersion of Erratic Rocks at higher Levels than

their Parent Rock in Yorkshire...

on a new Plesiosaurus in the York Museum

Rev. T. RANKIN on the Formation of Boulders.....

Professor SEDGWICK on the Classification and Nomenclature of the older

Paleozoic Rocks of Britain

Mr. H. E. STRICKLAND on Pseudomorphous Crystals in New Red Sandstone 61

Mr. WYVILLE T. C. THOMSON on some Ayrshire Fossils....

Mr. R. W. TOWNSEND on Refracted Lines of Cleavage seen in the Slate Rocks

of Ballyrizora, in the County of Cork

Mr. CHARLES TWAMLEY on a singular Fault in the Southern Termination of

the Warwickshire Coal-field

BOTANY AND ZOOLOGY.

Professor ALLMAN on the Structure of the Endochrome in Conferva Linum ..

on the Utricular Structure of the Endochrome, a Species of

Professor J. H. BALFOUR on some New Plants....

Professor J. BUCKMAN'S Notes on the Growth of Symphytum officinale in the

Botanical Gardens of the Royal Agricultural College

Mr. B. CLARKE's Additional Observations on a New System of Classifying Plants 63

Mr. ROBERT HUNT on a Method of Accelerating the Germination of Seeds ..

Dr. ASTLEY P. PRICE on the Pentasulphide of Calcium as a Remedy for Grape

Mr. J. D. SOLLITT and Mr. R. HARRISON on the Diatomaceæ found in the

neighbourhood of Hull

Mr. W. SOMERS on a New Alga

on the Structure of the Freshwater Polyp, Hydra viridis..

Mr. SPENCE BATE on the Morphology of the Pycnogonidæ, and Remarks on

the Development of the Ova in some Species of Isopodous and Amphipodous

Dr. J. BLAKE on the Physiological Action of Inorganic Substances introduced

directly into the Blood

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