[Ofice of the Association: 22 ALBEMARLE STREET, LONDON, W.]

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B 1878

LONDON: PRINTED BY SPOTTISWOODE AND CO., NEW-STREET SQUARE AND PARLIAMENT STREET

CONTENTS.

OBJECTS and Rules of the Association

Places of Meeting and Officers from commencement.......................

Presidents and Secretaries of the Sections of the Association from com-

mencement.....

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xxi

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Evening Lectures

xlvii

Lectures to the Operative Classes......

Table showing the Attendance and Receipts at Annual Meetings..........................

Treasurer's Account...........

xlix

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Officers of Sectional Committees present at the Dublin Meeting......

liii

Officers and Council, 1878-79.........

lv

Researches in Science........

Report of the Council to the General Committee........

Recommendations of the General Committee for Additional Reports and

Synopsis of Money Grants..........

lvi

lviii

lxiv

Places of Meeting in 1879 and 1880...................

lxv

General Statement of Sums paid on account of Grants for Scientific

purposes.

lxvi

Arrangement of the General Meetings.........

lxxv

Address by the President, WILLIAM SPOTTISWOODE, Esq., M.A., D.C.L.,

LL.D., F.R.S., F.R.A.S., F.R.G.S.......

REPORTS ON THE STATE OF SCIENCE.

Catalogue of the Oscillation-frequencies of Solar Rays; drawn up under the

superintendence of a Committee of the British Association, consisting of

Dr. HUGGINS (Chairman), Dr. DE LA RUE, Mr. J. NORMAN LOCKYER, Dr.

J. EMERSON REYNOLDS, Mr. SPOTTISWOODE, Dr. W. MARSHALL WATTS,

and Mr. G. JOHNSTONE STONEY (Reporter)...

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