INDEX I. 



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. 



OflScers and Council, xxvi. 



Officers of Sectional Committees, xxvii. 



Corresponding members, xxviii. 



Report of Council to General Committee 

 at Cheltenham, xxviii. 



Report of Kew Committee, xxx. 



Accounts of the Kew Committee, xxxvii. 



Report of the Parliamentary Committee, 

 xxxviii. 



Recommendations adopted by General 

 Committee at Cheltenham ; — involving 

 grants of money, xxxix ; not involving 

 grants of money, ib. ; involving appli- 

 cations to Government or public insti- 

 tutions, xli ; applications for reports 

 and researches, ib. ; communications 

 to be printed entire among the Reports, 

 xlii. 



Synopsis of grants of money appropriated 

 to scientific objects, xlii. 



General statement of sums paid on ac- 

 count of grants for scientific purposes, 

 xliii. 



Extracts from resolutions of the General 

 Committee, xlvi. 



Arrangement of general meetings, xlvii. 



Address by Charles Daubeny, M.D., 

 F.R.S., xlviii. 



America, North, on the present state of 



our knowledge with regard to the mol- 

 lusca of the west coast of, 159. 



Animals, or typical forms of, for museums, 

 461. 



Ashworth (E.) on the experiments con- 

 ducted at Stormontfield, near Perth, 

 for the artificial propagation of salmon, 

 451. 



Atherton (Charles) on mercantile steam 

 transport economy, 423 ; remarks by 

 James R. Napier on, 435 ; letter by, 

 on Mr. Napier's paper, 437 ; on the 

 measurement of ships for tonnage, 458. 



Atlantic and neighbouring seas, on the 

 marine testaceous mollusca of the 

 north-east, 101. 



Balfour (Prof.), dredging report — Frith 

 of Clyde, 1856, 4/. 



Boiler plate, on the influence of tempera- 

 ture on the tensile strength of, 407, 



Booth (Rev. James) on the trigonometry 

 of the parabola, and the geometrical 

 origin of logarithms, 68. 



Boult (Joseph), Report on the changes 

 in the sea channels of the Mersey, as 

 recorded by the surveys taken and pub- 

 lished within the last fifty years, 26. 



Bowerbank (J. S.) on the vital powers of 

 the Spongiadse, 438. 



British shores, on the oyster-beds and 

 oysters of the, 368. 



Bunsen(Prof.), photochemical researches, 

 62. 



Carpenter (Philip P.) on the present state 

 of our knowledge with regard to the 



