GENERAL STATEMENT. 



£ S. d. 



Brought forward .... 256 5 9 



Chronometers 26 17 6 



Marine Zoology 15 



British Fossil Mammalia 100 



Statistics of Education 20 



Marine Steam-vessels' Engines 28 



Stars fHistoire Celeste) 59 



Stars (British Association Catalogue of ) . ... 110 



Railway Sections 161 10 



British Belemnites 50 



Fossil Reptiles (publication of Report) .... 210 



Forms of Vessels 1 80 



Galvanic Experiments on Rocks 5 8 6 



Meteorological Experiments at Plymouth ... 68 



Constant Indicator and Dynamometric Instruments 90 



Force of Wind 10 



Light on Growth of Seeds 8 



Vital Statistics 50 



Vegetative Power of Seeds 8 111 



Questions on Human Race 7 9 



■1449 17 8 



Extracts from Resolutions of the General Committee. 



Committees and individuals, to whom grants of money for scientific pur- 

 poses have been entrusted, are required to present to each following meeting 

 of the Association a Report of the progress which has been made ; with a 

 statement of the sums which have been expended, and the balance which re- 

 mains disposable on each grant. 



Grants of pecuniary aid for scientific purposes from the funds of the Asso- 

 ciation expire at the ensuing meeting, unless it shall appear by a_Report that 

 the Recommendations have been acted on, or a continuation of them be 

 ordered by the General Committee. 



In each Committee, the Member first named is the person entitled to call 

 on the Treasurer, John Taylor, Esq., 2 Duke Street, Adelphi, London, for 

 such portion of the sum granted as may from time to time be required. 



In grants of money to Committees, the Association does not contemplate 

 the payment of personal expenses to the Members. 



In all cases where additional grants of money are made for the continua- 

 tion of Researches at the cost of the Association, the sum named shall be 

 deemed to include as a part of the amount, the specified balance which may 

 remain unpaid on the former grant for the same object. 



On Thursday evening, June 23rd, at 8 p.m., the President, the Right Hon. 

 Lord Francis Egerton, M.P., took the Chair in the Friends' Meeting House, 

 Manchester, and delivered an Address (see page xxxi.). 



On Monday evening, in the Theatre of the Athenaeum, Mr. Vignoles ex- 

 plained the principles and construction of ' Atmospheric Railways,' and Sir 

 M. I. Brunei described the ' Thames Tunnel.' 



On Tuesday evening, in the same Room, Mr. Murchison stated the 

 result of his recent Surveys of the Geology of Russia, in which he was ac- 

 companied by Count Keyserling and M. De Verneuil. 



On Wednesday, at 8 p.m. the Concluding General Meeting of the Associa- 

 tion took place in the Friends' Meeting House, when an account of the Pro- 

 ceedings of the General Committee was read by Colonel Sabine. 



