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Table of Council from commencement

Officers of Sectional Committees and Corresponding Members.........

Treasurer's Account

Reports, Researches, and Desiderata

Recommendations for Additional Reports and Researches in Science

Arrangements of the General Evening Meetings

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REPORTS OF RESEARCHES IN SCIENCE.

On the Microscopic Structure of Shells. By W. CARPENTER, M.D., F.R.S.

Report on the British Nudibranchiate Mollusca. By JOSHUA ALDER

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Researches on the Influence of Light on the Germination of Seeds and

the Growth of Plants. By ROBERT HUNT

Report of a Committee, consisting of Sir JOHN W. F. HERSCHEL, Mr.

WHEWELL, and Mr. BAILY (deceased), appointed by the British

Association in 1840, for revising the Nomenclature of the Stars....

On the Meteorology of Toronto in Canada. By Lieut.-Colonel EDWARD

SABINE, R.A., F.R.S.

Report on some recent Researches into the Structure, Functions and

Economy of the Araneidea made in Great Britain. By JOHN BLACK-

WALL, F.L.S........

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On the Construction of large Reflecting Telescopes. By the EARL

OF ROSSE

Report on a Gas Furnace for Experiments on Vitrifaction and other

Applications of High Heat in the Laboratory. By the Rev.

WILLIAM VERNON HARCOURT, F.R.S., &c.

Report of the Committee for registering Earthquake Shocks in Scotland 85

Report of a Committee appointed at the Tenth Meeting of the Associa-

tion for Experiments on Steam-Engines. Members of the Com-

- The Rev. Professor MOSELEY, M.A., F.R.S.;

HODGKINSON, Esq., F.R.S.; J. S. ENYS, Esq., F.G.S.; Professor

POLE, F.G.S. (Reporter)

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