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INDEX I. 
TO 
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. 
Recommendations adopted by the general 
committee at the Cork Meeting, xx. 
Recommendations for reports and researches 
not involving grants of money, xx. 
Recommendations of special researches in 
science involving grants of money, xxi. 
Synopsis of grants of money appropriated to 
scientific objects at the Cork Meeting, xxix. 
General statement of sums which have been 
paid on account of grants for scientific 
purposes, Xxv. 
Extracts from resolutions of the general com- 
mittee, xxviii. 
Address by the Earl of Rosse, xxix. 
Report of the council to the general com- 
mittee on the publication of catalogues of 
stars, xxxiv. 
Report of the committee, consisting of Prof. 
Wheatstone, Mr. Hutton, and the general 
secretaries and treasurer, appointed by the 
council to superintend the establishment 
of meteorological observations at the Kew 
Observatory, xxxix. 
Report on the electro-magnetic meteorolo- 
gical register, by Prof. Wheatstone, xl. 
Acalepha, on Irish, 281. 
igean Sea, Mollusca and Radiata of the, 130. 
Agassiz (M.), synoptical table of British fossil 
fishes, arranged in the order of the geolo- 
gical formations, 194. 
Air, action of, on cast iron, wrought iron 
and steel, 1. 
Amorphozoa, on Irish, 286. 
Animals, acephalous, scarcity of, in the Agean 
Sea, 146. 
——,, marine, distribution of, in the Mgean 
Sea, 152. 
Annelida, on Irish, 271. 
Anoplotherium, on the remaius of, in Great 
Britain, 225, 


Antarctic expedition, on the, 54. 
Aplysia, new species of, 187. 
Asphyxia, 295. 
Astarte, new species of, 192. 
Baily (F.) on revising the nomenclature of 
the stars, 292. 
Balloons, experiments on captive, 128. 
Barometer, mean altitudes of the, in the 
United States during 1836, 1837, and part 
of 1838, 88. 
Binney (E. W.) on the excavation made at 
the junction of the lower new red sand- 
stone with the coal measures at Collyhurst, 
near Manchester, 241. 
Blake (J.) on the physiological action of 
medicines, 115. 
Bos, on the remains of, in Great Britain, 232. 
Buckland (William) on registering the shocks 
of earthquakes, 120. 
Bulla, new species of, 187. 
Bullzea, new species of, 187. 
Brewster (Sir D.) on the meteorological 
observations at Inverness, 292. 
on the meteorological hourly observa- 
tions at Unst, 293. 
—— on the action of different bodies on the 
spectrum, 294. 

Capra, on the remains of, in Great Britain, 
236. 
Carboniferous system, British fossil fishes of 
the, 195. 
Cerithium, new species of, 190. 
Cervus, on the remains of, in Great Britain, 
236. 
Chiton, new species of, 188. 
Cheeropotamus, on the remains of the genus, 
in Great Britain, 226. 
Cirrhipeda, on Irish, 265. 
Coal measures at Collyhurst, on the excava- 
tion made at the junction of the lower 
new red sandstone with the, 241. 
Corals, scarcity of, in the Aigean Sea, 152. 
Cretaceous system, British fossil fishes of 
the, 203. 
Crustacea, on Irish, 266. 
Daubeny (Prof.) on the growth and vitality: 
of seeds, 105. 
