CONTENTS. 



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Objects and Rules of the Association , v 



Officers and Council . vii 



Places of Meeting and Officers from commencement viii 



Table of Council from commencement ix 



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



Treasurer's Account xii 



Reports, Researches, and Desiderata ,. xiv 



Recommendations for Additional Reports and Researches in Science xx 



Synopsis of Money Grants xxv 



Arrangements of the General Evening Meetings xxix 



Address of the President xxxi 



REPORTS OF RESEARCHES IN SCIENCE. 



Report of the Committee, consisting of Sir J. Herschel, the Master 

 of Trinity College, Cambridge, the Dean of Ely, Dr. Lloyd, 

 and Colonel Sabine, appointed to conduct the co-operation of the 

 British Association in the system of Simultaneous Magnetical and 

 Meteorological Observations 1 



Report on the present state of the Ichthyology of New Zealand. By 

 John Richardson, M.D., F.R.S., &c, Inspector of Naval Hospitals 

 at Haslar , 12 



Report on the Progress of the Meteorological Observations at Ply- 

 mouth. By W. Snow Harris, F.R.S., &c 30 



Second Report of a Committee, consisting of Mr. H. E. Strickland, 

 Prof. Daubeny, Prof. Henslow, and Prof. Lindley, appointed to 

 make Experiments on the Growth and Vitality of Seeds 34 



Report of the Committee* on Railway Sections. By Charles Vig- 

 noles, Esq., F.R.A.S., M.R.I.A., M. Inst. C. E., Professor of Civil 

 Engineering, University College, London '. . 38 



Report of the Committee for the Preservation of Animal and Vegetable 

 Substances 4,0 



Abstract of Professor Liebig's Report on " Organic Chemistry applied 

 to Physiology and Pathology." By Lyon Playfair, M.D 42 



Report on the British Fossil Mammalia. By Richard Owen, Esq., 



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