INDEX I. 



REPORTS ON THE STATE OF SCIENCE. 



Objects and Rules of the Association, 

 xiii. 



Places and times of meeting, with names 

 of officers from commencement, xvi. 



Members of Council from commence- 

 ment, xviii. 



Treasurer's account, xx. 



Officers and Council, xxii. 



Officers of Sectional Committees, xxiii. 



Corresponding members, xxiv. 



Report of Council to General Committee 

 at Hull, xxiv. 



Report of the Kew Committee for 1852- 

 53, xxix. 



Report of Parliamentary Committee to 

 General Committee at Hull, xxxi. 



Recommendations adopted by General 

 Committee at Hull, involving grants of 

 money, xxxiii ; not involving grants 

 of money, or application to Govern- 

 ment or public authorities, xxxiv. 



Synopsis of grants of money appropriated 

 to scientific objects, xxxv. 



General statement of sums paid on ac- 

 count of grants for scientific purposes, 

 xxxvi. 



Extracts from resolutions of the General 

 Committee, xl. 



Arrangement of general meetings, xl. 



Address by William Hopkins, M.A., xli. 



Bell (Dr. J. P.) on the character and 



measurements of degradation of the 



Yorkshire coast, 8 1 . 

 Birt (W. R.) on shooting stars observed 



August 9, 1853, 34. 

 Boreham (W. W.), on meteors seen by, 



at Haverhill, 34. 



Daubeny (Prof.), thirteenth report on 

 the growth and vitality of seeds, 67. 



Determinants, provisional report on the 

 theory of, 66. 



Earth, on the physical character of the 



moon's surface as compared with that 



of the, 84. 

 Earthquakes, catalogue of recorded, from 



1606 B.C. to A.D. 1850, 118. 

 Earthquake phsenomena, third report on 



the facts of, 117. 

 Earthquake wave-transits, on, 86. 

 Edinburgh, on a luminous object seen 



near, 32. 



Fairbairn (William), experimental re- 

 searches to determine the strength of 

 locomotive boilers, and the causes 

 which lead to explosion, 53 ; on the 

 mechanical properties of metals as 

 derived from repeated meltings, ex- 

 hibiting the maximum point of strength 

 and the causes of deterioration, 87. 



Flax, on the gases evolved in steeping, 

 and on the composition and ceconomy 

 of the plant, 67' 



Henslow (Prof.), thirteenth report on the 



growth and vitality of seeds, G7. 

 Hodges (Dr.) on the gases evolved in 



steeping flax, and on the composition 



and ceconomy of the flax plant, 67. 

 Hull, on the rise, progress, and present 



position of steam navigation in, 45. 

 Humber, on the physical features of the, 



36. 

 Hunt (Robert), second report on the 



chemical action of the solar radiations, 



68. 



Lindley (Prof.), thirteenth report on the 

 growth and vitality of seeds, 67. 



