INDEX I. 
TO 
REPORTS ON THE STATE OF SCIENCE. 
OBJECTS and rules of the Association, v. 
Places and times of meeting, with Presidents, 
Vice-Presidents, and Local Secretaries from 
commencement, viii. 
Council from commencement, x. 
Treasurer’s account, Xii. 
Officers and council, 1846-7, xiv. 
Officers of Sectional Committees, xv. 
Corresponding members, xvi. 
Report of the council to the general com- 
mittee, xvi. 
Recommendations adopted by the general 
committee, involving applications to go- 
vernment and public institutions, xix. 
Recommendations for reports and researches 
not involving grants of money, xix. 
Recommendations of special researches in 
science, involving grants of money, xx. 
Synopsis of grants of money appropriated to 
scientific objects, xxi. 
General statement of sums which have been 
paid on account of grants for scientific 
_ purposes, xxii. 
Extracts from resolutions of the general com- 
mittee, xxvi. 
Arrangement of general evening meetings, 
XXvi. 
Address by Sir Roderick Impey Murchison, 
Actinograph, on the, 31. 
Algebraical transcendents, 43. 
America, quantity and value of iron, wrought 
and unwrought, exported to the United 
States of, from 1831 to 1844, 118. 
Analysis, on the recent progress of, 34. 
Anemometer, on Wheweil’s, 341. 
—, on Osler’s, 343. 
Anemometry, 340. 
Archetype of the vertebrate skeleton, on the, 
169. 
Atmosphere, mechanical effects of the move- 
ment of the, 340. 
—, molecular effects of the movement of 
the, 346. 
Atmospheric waves, on, 119. 
Barometer, examination of Mr. Brown’s paper 
on the oscillations of the, by W. R. Birt, 
132. 
1846. 
a Ag fall of the, Nov. 8 and 9, 1842, 
Barometric observations, discussion of Mr. 
Brown’s, 140. 
Birt (W. R.), third report on atmospheric 
waves, 119; addenda, 272. 
—— on Mr. Brown’s paper on the oscilla- 
tions of the barometer, 132. 
—— discussion of Mr. Brown’s barometric 
observations, 140. 
Blake (J.) on the physiological action of me- 
dicines, 27. 
Bones, cranial and facial, on the arrange- 
ment of the two primary classes of, 324. 
Brown (W.) on his paper on the oscillations 
of the barometer, by W. R. Birt, 132. 
—— discussion of his barometric observa- 
tions, 140. 
Clyde, iron vessels being built in the, during 
the spring of 1846, 117. 
Constants, on the calculation of the Gaussian, 
for 1829, 92. 
Crocodile, on the arrangement of the skull 
bones of the, 283. 
Daubeny (Prof.) sixth report on the vitality 
of seeds, 20. 
Ellis (R. L.) on the recent progress of ana- 
lysis (theory of the comparison of tran- 
scendentals), 34. 
England and Wales, manufacture of pig-iron 
in, 1788, 114. 
Erman (A.) on the calculation of the Gauss- 
ian constants for 1829, 92. 
Forchhammer (Prof.) on comparative ana- 
lytical researches on sea-water, 90. 
France, quantity and value of iron exported 
to, from 1831 to 1844, 118. 
Gaussian constants, on the calculation of the, 
for 1829, 92. 
Great Britain, on the progress, presentamount, 
and probable future condition of the iron 
manufacture in, 99. 
—., manufacture of iron in 1796, 114. 
——, production of iron in 1806, 1823, 1830, 
115; in 1840, 116. 
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