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INDEX I. 



REPORTS ON THE STATE OF SCIENCE. 



OBJECTS and rules of the Association, v. 



Officers and council, vii. 



Places of meeting and officers from com- 

 mencement, viii. 



Table of council from commencement, ix. 



Officers of sectional committees and corre- 

 sponding members, xi. 



Treasurer's account, xii. 



Reports, researches, and desiderata of science 

 published by the Association, xiv, xvi. 



Reports, &c. to be drawn up and presented at 

 future meetings of the Association, xix. 



Recommendation involving an application to 

 Government, xx. 



Recommendations of researches in science in- 

 volving money grants, xx. 



Synopsis of sums appropriated to scientific 

 objects at the Manchester Meeting, xxv. 



Extracts from resolutions of the general com- 

 mittee, xxix. 



Address by Lord Francis Egerton, xxxi. 



Aberdeen and suburbs, vital statistics of, 126, 

 138, 145, 150, 158, 177, 182. 



Africa, southern, magnetic surveys in, 4. 



Agassiz (Louis) on the fossil fishes of the De- 

 vonian system or old red sandstone, 80. 



Air, mode of conducting experiments on the 

 resistance of, 211. 



Alison (Dr. W. P.) on the vital statistics of 

 large towns in Scotland, 121. 



Amphitherium, on the genus, 57. 



Anemometer, Osier's, erection of one of, at 

 Inverness, 206. 



. , Whewell's, mean velocity of the wind 



by, 33. 



Anguilliformes, 28. 



Animal substances, preservation of, 40. 



Antarctic expedition, magnetic and meteoro- 

 logical observations made during the, in 

 1840, 1. 



Babington (C. C.) on the preservation of ani- 

 mal and vegetable substances, 40. 



Bache (A. D.), letter to Col. Sabine on the 

 meteorology of the United States, 208. 



Baily (Francis) on the reduction of the stars 

 in the Histoire Celeste, 205. 



on the British Association catalogue of 



stars, 206. 



Baptism in large towns in Scotland, on the, 

 146. 



Belemnites, British, notice to the committee 

 of the British Association for advancing 

 our knowledge of, 213. 



Birt (W. R.) on the reduction of meteorolo- 

 gical observations, 208. 



Births in large towns in Scotland, on the, 146. 



Boguslawski (Prof. Von), letter to Col. Sa- 

 bine on the magnetic observations at Bres- 

 lau, 11. 



Breslau, magnetic observations at, 11. 



Brewster (Sir D.) on the erection of one of 

 Mr. Osier's anemometers at Inverness, 206. 



— — on the hourly series of meteorological 

 observations made at Inverness from 1840 

 to 1841, 206. 



Broderip (W. J.) on zoological nomenclature, 

 105. 



Canis, on the genus, 70. 



Carcharise, 29. 



Cetacea, 54, 72. 



Chadwick (E.) on the vital statistics of large 



towns in Scotland, 121. 

 Cheiroptera, 56. 

 Chimseridae, 29. 

 Clupeoideae, 26. 

 Coed-Talon iron, experiments on bars of, 89, 



90, 91. 

 Cottoidese, 18. 

 Cyclostomi, 30. 



Darwin (C.) on zoological nomenclature, 105. 

 Daubeny (Prof.) on the growth and vitality 



of seeds, 34. 

 Devonian system, fossil fishes of the, 80. 

 Didelphys?, on the genus, 72. 

 Discoboli, 27. 

 Diseases of large towns in Scotland, on the, 



196. 

 Dredging, report of the committee for deep, 



213. 

 Dundee, vital statistics of, 129, 132, 140, 145, 



152, 168, 174, 179, 184. 

 , proportion of deaths by various diseases 



in, 199. 



Earthquakes, on registering shocks of, in Great 

 Britain, 92. 



