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CONTENTS.

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OBJECTS and Rules of the Association

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xvii

Places of Meeting and Officers from commencement

xxiv

Presidents and Secretaries of the Sections of the Association from

commencement

Evening Lectures

xxxix

Lectures to the Operative Classes

xli

Table showing the Attendance and Receipts at previous Meetings.. xlii

Treasurer's Account

xliy

Officers and Council, 1871-72

xly

Officers of Sectional Committees

xlvi

Report of the Council to the General Committee

xlvii

Report of the Kew Committee, 1870-71 ..

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Recommendations of the General Committee for Additional Reports

and Researches in Science..

lxix

Synopsis of Money Grants....

lxxiv

General Statement of Sums paid on account of Grants for Scientific

Purposes...

lxxvi

Arrangement of the General Meetings

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Address by the President, Sir William Thomson, Knt., LL.D., F.R.S. lxxxiv

REPORTS OF RESEARCHES IN SCIENCE.

Seventh Report of the Committee for Exploring Kent's Cavern, Devon-

shire, the Committee consisting of Sir CHARLES LYELL, Bart., F.R.S.,

Professor PHILLIPS, F.R.S., Sir John LUBBOCK, Bart., F.R.S., JOHN

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Evans, F.R.S., EDWARD Vivian, George Busk, F.R.S., WILLIAM BOYD

Dawkins, F.R.S., WILLIAM AYSH FORD SANFORD, F.G.S., and WILLIAM

PENGELLY, F.R.S. (Reporter)

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Fourth Report of the Committee for the purpose of investigating the rate

of Increase of Underground Temperature downwards in various Locali-

ties of Dry Land and under Water. Drawn up by Professor EVERETT,

at the request of the Committee, consisting of Sir William THOMSON,

F.R.S., Sir CHARLES LYELL, Bart., F.R.S., Professor J. CLERK MAXWELL,

F.R.S., Professor PHILLIPS, F.R.S., G. J. Symons, F.M.S., Dr. Balfour

STEWART, F.R.S., Professor RAMSAY, F.R.S., Professor A. GEIKIE,

F.R.S., JAMES GLAISHER, F.R.S., Rev. Dr. GRAHAM, E. W. BINNEY,

F.R.S., GEORGE MAW, F.G.S., W. PENGELLY, F.R.S., S.J.MACKIE, F.G.S.,

EDWARD Hull, F.R.S., and Professor EVERETT, D.C.L. (Secretary) 14

Report on Observations of Luminous Meteors, 1870–71. By a Com-

mittee, consisting of JAMES GLAISHER, F.R.S.,

of the Royal Observa-

tory, Greenwich, ROBERT P. GreG, F.G.S., F.R.A.S., ALEXANDER S.

HERSCHEL, F.R.A.S., and CHARLES BROOKE, F.R.S., Secretary to the

Meteorological Society...

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Fifth Report of the Committee, consisting of HENRY WOODWARD, F.G.S.,

F.Z.S., Dr. Duncan, F.R.S., and R. ETHERIDGE, F.R.S., on the Struc-

ture and Classification of the Fossil Crustacea, drawn up by HENRY

WOODWARD, F.G.S., F.Z.S.

Report of the Committee appointed at the Meeting of the British Asso-

ciation at Liverpool, 1870, consisting of Prof. Jevons, R. DUDLEY

Baxter, J. T. DANSON, JAMES HEYWOOD, F.R.S., Dr. W. B. Hodgsox,

and Prof. WALEY, with Edmund MACRORY as their Secretary, “ for the

purpose of urging upon Her Majesty's Government the expediency of

arranging and tabulating the results of the approaching Census in the

three several parts of the United Kingdom in such a manner as to

admit of ready and effective comparison

57

Report of the Committee appointed for the purpose of Superintending

the Publication of Abstracts of Chemical Papers. The Committee con-

sists of Prof. A. W. WILLIAMSON, F.R.S., Prof. H. E. Roscoe, F.R.S.,

Prof. E. FRANKLAND, F.R.S.

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53

Report of the Committee for discussing Observations of Lunar Objects

suspected of Change. The Committee consists of the Rev. T. W.

WEBB and EDWARD CROSSLEY, Secretary ..

60

Second Provisional Report on the Thermal Conductivity of Metals. By

Prof. TAIT

97

Report on the Rainfall of the British Isles, by a Committee, consisting of

C. BROOKE, F.R.S. (Chairman), J. GLAISHER, F.R.S., Prof. PHILLIPS,

F.R.S., J. F. BATEMAN, C.E., F.R.S., R. W. MYLNE, C.E., F.R.S.,

T. HAWKSLEY, C.E., Prof. J. C. ADAMS, F.R.S., C. TOMLINSON, F.R.S.,

Prof. SYLVESTER, F.R.S., Dr. POLE, F.R.S., ROGERS FIELD, C.E., and

G. J. Symons, Secretary

98

Third Report on the British Fossil Corals. By P. MARTIN Duncan,

F.R.S., F.G.S., Professor of Geology in King's College, London .... 116

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Report on the Heat generated in the Blood during the process of Arteria-

lization. By Arthur GAMGEE, M.D., F.R.S.E., Lecturer on Physiology

in the Extra-Academical Medical School of Edinburgh..

137

Report of the Committee appointed to consider the subject of Physiolo-

gical Experimentation ..

144

Report on the Physiological Action of Organic Chemical Compounds. By

BENJAMIN WARD RICHARDSON, M.A., M.D., F.R.S.

145

Report of the Committee appointed to get cut and prepared Sections

of Mountain-Limestone Corals for the purpose of showing their Struo-

ture by means of Photography. The Committee consists of JAMES

THowson, F.G.S., and Prof. HARKNESS, F.R.S. ..

165

Second Report of the Committee appointed to consider and report on the

various Plans proposed for Legislating on the subject of Steam-Boiler

Explosions, with a view to their Prevention, the Committee consisting

of Sir WILLIAM FAIRBAIRN, Bart., C.E., LL.D., F.R.S., JOHN PENN,

C.E., F.R.S., FREDERICK J. BRAMWELL, C.E., Hugh Mason, SACTUEL

Rigby, Thomas ScHOFIELD, CHARLES F. BEYER, C.E., Thomas WEBSTER,

Q.C., and LAVINGTON E. FLETCHER, C.E.

166

Report of the Committee on the “ Treatment and Utilization of Sewage,"

consisting of RICHARD B. GRANTHAM, C.E., F.G.S. (Chairman), Pro-

fessor D.T. ANSTED, F.R.S., Professor W. H. CORFIELD, M.A., M.B., J.

BAILEY DENTON, C.E., F.G.S., Dr. W. H. GILBERT, F.R.S., John THORN.

HILL HARRISON, C.E., THOMAS HAWKSLEY, C.E., F.G.S., W. HOPE, V.C.,

Lieut.-Col. LEACII, R.E., Dr. W. ODLING, F.R.S., Dr. A. VOELCKER,

F.R.S., Professor A. W. WILLIAMSON, F.R.S., F.C.S., and Sir John

LUBBOCK, Bart., M.P., F.R.S. (Treasurer)

166

Letters from M. LAVOISIER to Dr. BLACK

189

Report of the Committee, consisting of Dr. Antox Dours, Professor Rol-

LESTON, and Mr. P. L. SCLATER, appointed for the purpose of promoting

the Foundation of Zoological Stations in different parts of the World :

--Reporter, Dr. DOHRN

192

Preliminary Report on the Thermal Equivalents of the Oxides of Chlo-

rine. By James DEWAR, F.R.S.E.

193

Report on the practicability of establishing " A Close Time" for the pro-

tection of indigenous Animals. By a Committee, consisting of Prof.

NEWTON, M.A., F.R.S., Rev. H. B. TRISTRAM, F.R.S., J. E. HARTING,

F.L.S., F.Z.S., Rev. H. BARNES, and H. E. DRESSER (Reporter) .... 197

Report of the Committee on Earthquakes in Scotland. The Committee

consists of Dr. BRYCE, F.G.S., Sir W. Thomsen, F.R.S., D. MILNE-

Home, F.R.S.E., P. MACFARLANE, and J. BROUGH

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Report on the best means of providing for a uniformity of Weights and

Measures, with reference to the Interests of Science. By a Committee,

consisting of Sir Joux BOWRING, F.R.S., The Right Hon. Sir C. B. AD-

DERLEY, M.P., SAMUEL Browx, F.S.S., Dr. Farr, F.R.S., Frank P.

FELLOWES, Professor FRANKLAND, F.R.S., Professor HENNESSY, F.R.S.,

JAMES HEYWOOD, F.R.S., Sir ROBERT KANE, F.R.S., Professor LEONE

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LEVI, F.S.A., F.S.S., C. W. SIEMENS, F.R.S., Colonel SYKES, F.R.S.,

M.P., Professor A. W. WILLIAMSON, F.R.S., JAMES YATES, F.R.S., Dr.

GEORGE GLOVER, Sir JosEPH WHITWORTH, Bart., F.R.S., J. R. NAPIER,

H. DIRCKS, J. V. N. BAZALGETTE, W. SMITI, Sir W. FAIRBAIRN, Bart.,

F.R.S., and John ROBINSON :- Professor LEONE LEVI, Secretary 198

Report of the Committee appointed for the purpose of promoting the

extension, improvement, and harmonic analysis of Tidal Observations.

Consisting of Sir WILLIAM THOMSON, LL.D., F.R.S., Prof. J. C. ADAMS,

F.R.S., J. OLDHAM, WILLIAM PARKES, M. Inst. C.E., Prof. RANKINE,

LL.D., F.R.S., and Admiral RICHARDS, R.N., F.R.S...

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MATHEMATICS AND PHYSICS.

Address by Professor P. G. TAIT, M.A., F.R.S.E, President of the Section .. 1

MATHEMATICS.

Mr. ROBERT STAWELL BALL's exhibition and description of a Model of a

Conoidal Cubic Surface called the “Cylindroid,” which is presented in the

Theory of the Geometrical Freedom of a Rigid Body

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Professor CAYLEY on the Number of Covariants of a Binary Quantic

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Mr. W. K. CLIFFORD on a Canonical Form of Spherical Ilarmonics

Mr. J. W. L. GLAISHER on certain Definite Integrals ....

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on Lambert's Proof of the Irrationality of

and on

the Irrationality of certain other Quantities

12

Mr. C. W. MERRIFIELD on certain Families of Surfaces

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Mr. F. W. NEWMAN on Doubly Diametral Quartan Curves

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Professor PURSER's Remarks on Napier's original Method of Logarithms.... 23

Mr. W. H. L. RUSSELL on Linear Differential Equations...

23

on MacCullagh’s Theorem

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Mr. J. J. SYLVESTER on the Theory of a Point in Partitions .....

23

Sir W. THOMSON on the General Canonical Form of a Spherical Harmonic of

the nth Order

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