INDEX I. 
TO 
REPORTS ON THE STATE OF SCIENCE. 
OBJECTS and rules of the Associa- 
tion, v. 
Officers and Council, viii. 
Places of Meeting and Officers from 
commencement, ix. 
Table of Council from commence- 
ment, x. 
Officers of the Glasgow Sectional 
Committees, xii. 
Corresponding Members, xiii. 
_Treasurer’s Account, xiv. 
Reports, Researches, and Desiderata, 
&e., xvi. 
Recommendations for additional Re- 
ports and Researches in Science, 
Xxiil. 
Synopsis of money grants, xxxii. 
Arrangement of the General Evening 
Meetings, xxxiv. 
Address of the General Secretaries, 
XXKV. 
Airy (G.B.) on the reductions of the 
Greenwich Lunar and Planetary 
Observations, 423. 
Anemometer, Prof. Whewell’s, 157. 
, self-registering, on the, 321. 
, action of Osler’s, at Edinburgh, 
435. 
Amphibia, 384. 
Animal and vegetable substances, pre- 
servation of, 421. 
Apodes, 395. 
Atmospheric pressure, 85. 
Aurora Borealis, 120. 
Aves, 364. 
Barometrical observations, 352. 
Brewster (Sir D.), report on the hourly 
meteorological observations kept at 
Inverness and Kingussie, 349. 
British Museum, enlarged exhibitions 
in illustration of fossil conchology 
at the, 443. 
Cocelum Australe Stelliferum, reduction 
of Lacaille’s stars in the, 427. 
Clouds, 111. 
Conchology, fossil, enlarged exhibitions 
in illustration of, at the British 
Museum, 443. 
Cartilaginei, 397. 
Edinburgh, on the action of Osler’s 
anemometer at, 435. 
Electricity, atmospherical, 116. 
» common, phznomena of polar- 
ization caused by, 212. 
Electro-chemistry, researches in, 209. 
Equinoxes and solstices, reduction of 
meteorological observations made at 
the, 4238. 
Farquharson (Rev. J.) on the forma- 
tion of ice, 20. 
Forbes (Prof.) on meteorology, 37. 
on the transmission and refrac- 
tion of heat, 7. 
and. M. Melloni, on the analo- 
gies of light and heat, 10. 
, new phzenomena of trans- 
mission, 11. 
on the polarization of heat, 21. 
on the circular and elliptical po- 
larization of heat, 23; further re- 
searches, 26. 
on the unequal polarizability of 
heat from different sources, 30. 
on the intensity of reflected 
heat, 32. 
, suggestions for the advancement 
of meteorological science, 143. 
