Oxsysects and rules of the Association, v 
Places and times of meeting, with officers, 
from commencement, viii. 
v 
former years, x 
Treasurer’s account, xi. 
Officers and Council, xiv. c 
Officers of Sectional Committees, xv. 
Corresponding members, xvi. 
Report of Council to the General Committee 
at Swansea, xvi. 
Report of the Kew-Observatory Committee, 
xvii. 
Reasons for thinking that the Annual Meet- 
ings ought not to be restricted to places 
which present formal invitations and gua- 
___ rantees of expenses, xxi. 
Recommendations adopted by the General 
Committee at the Swansea meeting in 
August 1848, xxii. 
Recommendation for application to govern- 
ment for the continuation of the meteoro- 
_ logical and magnetical observatory at 
- Toronto, up to Dec. 1850, xxii. 
_ Recommendations for reports and researches 
involving grants of money, xxii. 
_ Recommendations for reports and researches 
not involving grants of money, or appli- 
‘eation to government, xxiii. 
Synopsis of money grants appropriated to 
scientific objects, xxiv. 
- General statement of sums which have been 
paid on account of grants for scientific 
purposes, xxv. 
_ Extracts of resolutions of the General Com- 
mittee, xxix. 
} Arrangement of general evening meetings, 
xxix. 
_ Address by The Most Noble the Marquis of 
_ Northampton, xxxi. 
- Acid, alizaric, 64. 
— , carbonic, action of, on the growth of 
plants allied to those of the coal forma- 
tions, 84. 
Members who have seryed on Council in | 
INDEX I. 
TO 
REPORTS ON THE STATE OF SCIENCE. 
Acid, carbonic, on the influence of, on the 
growth of ferns, 97. 
——., pyro-alizaric, 66. 
, rubiacie, 7d. 
Air of towns, on the, 16. 
Alizaric acid, 64 ; elementary analysis of, 64. 
Alizarin, 61; elementary analysis of, id. 
Alten, table of barometric readings at, Nov. 
1 to 26, 1842, 37. 
Alpha-resin, 67. 
Anemometrical researches, notice of further 
progress in, 97. 
Anthracite furnaces at Ystalyfera, analysis 
of gas from the, 81. 
Atmospheric waves, on, 35. 
Barometric altitudes and differences arising 
from the transit of the Scandinavian wave 
across Lapland and Russia in 1842, table 
of, 40. 
readings, table of, at Alten, Lougan, 
and Geneva, Nov. 1 to 26, 1842, 37. 
Beta-resin, 68. 
Birt (W. R.), fifth report on atmospheric 
waves, 35. 
Blast furnaces at the Ystalyfera iron-works, 
on the advantageous use made of the 
gaseous escape from the, 75. 
Budd (James Palmer) on the advantageous 
use of the gaseous escape from the blast 
furnaces at the Ystalyfera iron works, 75. 
Coal formations, on the aetion of carbonic 
acid on the growth of plants allied te those 
of the, 84. 
Colouring matters, on, 57. 
Daubeny (Prof.), eighth report on the growth 
and vitality of seeds, 31. 
—— on the progress of the investigation on 
the influence of carbonic acid onthegrowth 
of ferns, 97. 
Dove (Prof. 1. W.), supplement to the tem- 
perature tables printed in the Report of the 
British Association for 1847, 84. 
