CONTENTS. 



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Objects and Rules of the Association xvii 



Places of Meeting and Officers from aommencement xx 



Treasurer's Account xxiii 



Table of Council from commencement xxiv 



Officers and Council xxvi 



Officers of Sectional Committees xxvii 



Corresponding Members xxviii 



Report of the Council to the General Committee xxviii 



Report of the Kew Committee xxx 



Report of the Parliamentary Committee xxxviii 



Recommendations for Additional Reports and Researches in Science xxxix 



Synopsis of Money Grants xlii 



General Statement of Sums paid for Scientific Purposes xliii 



Extracts from Resolutions of the General Committee xlvi 



Arrangement of the General Meetings xlvii 



Address of the President xlviii 



REPORTS OF RESEARCHES IN SCIENCE. 



Report from the Committee appointed by the British Association for the 

 Advancement of Science, at the Meeting in Liverpool, in September 

 1854, to investigate and report upon the effects produced upon the 

 Channels of the Mersey by the alterations which within the last fifty 

 years have been made in its Banks 1 



Interim Report to the British Association, on Progress in Researches 

 on the Measurement of Water by Weir Boards. By James 

 Thomson, C.E 46 



Dredging Report. — Frith of Clyde. 1856 47 



Report on Observations of Luminous Meteors, 1855-56. By the Rev. 

 Baden Powell, M.A., F.R.S. &c., Savilian Professor of Geometry 

 in the University of Oxford 53 



Photochemical Researches. By Professor Bunsen, of Heidelberg, and 

 Dr. Henry E. Roscoe, of London 62 



