CONTENTS. 



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Objects and Rules of the Association xvii 



Places of Meeting and Officers from commencement xx 



Table of Council from commencement xxiii 



Treasurer's Account xxv 



Officers and Council xxvi 



Officers of Sectional Committees xxvii 



Corresponding Members xxviii 



Report of the Council to the General Committee xxviii 



Report of the Kew Committee xxx 



Report of the Parliamentary Committee xlvii 



Recommendations for Additional Reports and Researches in Science Ixiii 



Synopsis of Money Grants Ixvii 



General Statement of Sums paid for Scientific Purposes Ixviii 



Extracts from Resolutions of the General Committee Ixxi 



Arrangement of the General Meetings Ixxii 



Address of the President , Ixxiii 



REPORTS OF RESEARCHES IN SCIENCE. 



Report on the Relation between Explosions in Coal-Mines and Re- 

 volving Storms. By Thomas Dobson, B.A., of St. John's College, 

 Cambridge 1 



On the Influence of the Solar Radiations on the Vital Powers of Plants 

 growing under different Atmospheric Conditions. — Part III. By J. H. 

 Gladstone, Ph.D., F.R.S 15 



On the British Edriophthaima. By C. Spence Bate, F.L.S. &c 18 



On the present state of our knowledge on the Supply of Water to 



Towns. By John Frederic Bateman, C.E., F.G.S 62 



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