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REPORT
OF THE
TWENTY-SEVENTH MEETING
BRITISH ASSOCIATION
FOR THE
ADVANCEMENT OF SCIENCE;
HELD AT DUBLIN IN AUGUST AND SEPTEMBER 1857.
LONDON:
JOHN MURRAY, ALBEMARLE STREET.
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Corresponding Members..........
Report of the Council to the General Committee ....
Report of the Kew Committee
General Statement of Sums paid for Scientific Purposes
Extracts from Resolutions of the General Committee
Arrangement of the General Meetings
Address of the President
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REPORTS OF RESEARCHES IN SCIENCE.
Report on the Recent Progress of Theoretical Dynamics. By A.
CAYLEY
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Sixteenth and final Report of a Committee, consisting of Professor
DAUBENY, Professor HENSLOW, and Professor LINDLEY, appointed
to continue their Experiments on the Growth and Vitality of Seeds. 43
Continuation of Report on Steam Navigation at Hull. By JAMES
OLDHAM, C.E. Hull, M.I.C.E.
Report of a Committee, consisting of The Rt. Hon. Earl of HARDWICKE,
Chairman; Mr. ANDREW HENDERSON, Mr. JOHN SCOTT RUSSELL,
Mr. JAMES ROBT. NAPIER, Mr. CHARLES ATHERTON, Mr. ARTHUR
ANDERSON, Rev. Dr. WOOLLEY, Admiral MOORSOM (vice Mr. W.
MANN), Mr. JOHN MACGREGOR (vice Mr. G. F. YOUNG), Captain
J. O. OWEN, Professor BENNETT WoodcroFT, JAMES PERRY, and
Mr. JAMES YATES, Secretary, appointed to inquire into the Defects
of the present methods of Measuring and Registering the Tonnage of
Shipping, as also of Marine Engine-Power, and to frame more perfect
rules, in order that a correct and uniform principle may be adopted
to estimate the Actual Carrying Capabilities and Working-Power of
Steam Ships....
Report on the Temperature of some Deep Mines in Cornwall. By
ROBERT WERE Fox, F.R.S., F.G.S.
étant entier négatif, et de quelques cas dans lesquels cette somme est
exprimable par une combinaison de factorielles, la notation al+1 désig-
nant le produit des t facteurs a (a+1)(a+2) &c....(a+t-1).
Par G. PLARR, Docteur ès Sciences de Strasbourg
Report on the Marine Zoology of Strangford Lough, County Down,
and corresponding part of the Irish Channel. By G. DICKIE, M.D.,
Professor of Natural History, Queen's College, Belfast
Suggestions for Statistical Inquiry into the extent to which Mercantile
Steam Transport Economy is affected by the Constructive Type of
Shipping, as respects the Proportions of Length, Breadth, and Depth.
By CHARLES ATHERTON, Chief Engineer of Her Majesty's Dock-
yard, Woolwich
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Further Report on the Vitality of the Spongiada. By J. S. Bower-
BANK, LL.D., F.R.S., &c. (With a Plate)
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On Flax. By JOHN P. HODGES, M.D., F.C.S., Professor of Agriculture,
Queen's College, Belfast, and Chemist to the Chemico-Agricultural
Society of Ulster ....
126
Report of the Committee on the Magnetic Survey of Great Britain. By
Major-General SABINE
130
Report on Observations of Luminous Meteors, 1856-57. By the Rev.
BADEN POWELL, M.A., F.R.S., F.R.A.S., F.G.S., Savilian Professor
of Geometry in the University of Oxford
On the Adaptation of Suspension Bridges to sustain the passage of
Railway Trains. By C. VIGNOLES, C.E., F.R.S........
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On Electro-Chemistry. By Professor W. A. MILLER, M.D., F.R.S.... 158
Results of Thermometrical Observations made at the Plover's' Winter-
ing-place, Point Barrow, latitude 71° 21' N., long. 156° 17' W., in
1852-54. By JOHN SIMPSON, Esq., R.N., F.R.C.S., F.R.G.S., Sur-
geon of H.M.S. Plover' (With a Plate)
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On the Algebraic Couple; and on the Equivalents of Indeterminate
Expressions. By Charles James HARGREAVE, LL.D., F.R.S. ... 184
Report on the Improvement of Telescope and Equatorial Mountings. By
THOMAS GRUBB, M.R.I.A. &c.
Report on the Experimental Plots in the Botanical Garden of the Royal
Agricultural College at Cirencester. By JAMES BUCKMAN, F.L.S.,
F.A.S., F.G.S. &c., Professor of Geology and Botany, Lecturer on
Geology, &c. at the Cheltenham Proprietary College
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On the Resistance of Tubes to Collapse. By WILLIAM FAIRBAIRN,
F.R.S.
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Report of the Proceedings of the Belfast Dredging Committee. By
GEORGE C. HYNDMAN...
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On the Mechanical Effect of combining Girders and Suspension Chains,
and a Comparison of the Weight of Metal in Ordinary and Suspension
Girders, to produce equal deflections with a given load. By PETER
W. BARLOW, F.R.S.
238
Evidences of Lunar Influence on Temperature. By J. PARK HARRISON,
248
Report on the Animal and Vegetable Products imported into Liverpool
from the year 1851 to 1855 (inclusive).
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Report on the Statistics of Life-boats and Fishing-boats on the Coasts of
the United Kingdom. By ANDREW HENDERSON, F.S.A. and A.I.C.E. 308