INDEX I. 
TO 
REPORTS ON THE STATE OF SCIENCE. 
OBJECTS and rules of the Association, 
XVii. 
Places and times of meeting, with names 
of officers from commencement, xx. 
Treasurer’s account, xxiii. 
Members of Council from commence- 
ment, xxiv. 
Officers and Council for 1857-58, xxvi. 
Officers of Sectional Committees, xxvii. 
Corresponding members, xxviii. 
Report of Council to General Committee 
at Dublin, xxviii. 
Report of Kew Committee, xxxi. 
Accounts of Kew Committee, xxxvii. 
Report of Parliamentary Committee, 
XXXViii. 
- Recommendations adopted by General 
Committee at Dublin; — involving 
grants of money, xxxix; involving 
applications to Government or public 
institutions, xl; applications for re- 
ports and researches, 7b. ; communica- 
tions to be printed entire among the 
Reports, xli. : 
Synopsis of grants of money appropriated 
__ to scientific objects, xli. 
General statement of sums paid on ac- 
. count of grants for scientific purposes, 
xlii. 
Extracts from resolutions of the General 
4 _ Committee, xlv. 
_ Arrangement of general meetings, xlvi. 
_ Address by the Rev. Humphrey Lloyd, 
_D.D., F.RS., xlvii. 
; a Algebraic couple, on the, 184. 
g Anderson (Arthur), report on the mea- 
surement of ships for tonnage, 62, 
Angles, on infinite, 188. 
Animal products imported into Liverpool 
from 1851-55, 254. 
Archer (Prof, T. C.), report on the ani- 
mal and vegetable products imported 
into Liverpool from 1851-55, 254. 
Atherton (Charles), report on the mea- 
surement of ships for tonnage, 62; 
suggestions for statistical inquiry into 
the extent to which mercantile steam 
transport economy is affected by the 
constructive type of shipping, as 
respects the proportions of length, 
breadth, and depth, 112. 
Barlow (Peter W.) on the mechanical 
effect of combining girders and suspen- 
sion chains, and a comparison of the 
weight of metal in ordinary and sus- 
pension girders, to produce equal de- 
flections with a given load, 238. 
Belfast Bay, mollusea of, 221. 
Belfast Dredging Committee, reportof the 
proceedings of the, 220. 
Blackheath, remarkable meteor seen at, 
in January 1856, 142. 
Boats, life and fishing, on the statistics of, 
ae coasts of the United Kingdom, 
3 
Bompas (G. C.) on the horary variation 
of meteors; 143. 
Botanical Garden of the Royal Agricul- 
tural College of Cirencester, on the 
experimental plots in the, 200. 
Bowerbank (J. S.), second report on the 
vitality of the Spongiade, 121. 
Bridges, on the adaptation of suspen- 
sion, to sustain the passage of railway 
