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REPORT — 1860. 



1860. £ s. d. 



Maintaining the Establishment 



of Kew Observatory 500 



Dredging near Belfast 16 6 



Dredging in Dublin Bay 15 



Inquiry into the Performance of 



Steam-vessels 124 



Explorations in the Yellow Sand- 

 stone of Dura Den 20 



Chemico-mechanical Analysis of 



Rocks and Minerals 25 



£ s. d. 



Researches on the Growth of 



Plants 10 



Researches on the Solubility of 



Salts 30 



Researches on the Constituents 



ofManures 25 



Balance of Captive Balloon Ac- 

 counts.., , 1 13 6 



£1241 7 



Extracts from Resolutions of the General Committee. 



Committees and individuals, to whom grants of money for scientific pur- 

 poses have been entrusted, are required to present to each following meeting 

 of the Association a Report of the progress which has been made ; with a 

 statement of the sums which have been expended, and the balance which re- 

 mains disposable on each grant. 



Grants of pecuniary aid for scientific purposes from the funds of the Asso- 

 ciation expire at the ensuing meeting, unless it shall appear by a Report that 

 the Recommendations have been acted on, or a continuation of them be 

 ordered by the General Committee. 



In each Committee, the Member first named is the person entitled to call 

 on the Treasurer, John Taylor, Esq., 6 Queen Street Place, Upper Thames 

 Street, London, for such portion of the sum granted as may from time to 

 time be required. 



In grants of money to Committees, the Association does not contemplate 

 the payment of personal expenses to the members. 



In all cases where additional grants of money are made for the continua- 

 tion of Researches at the cost of the Association, the sum named shall be 

 deemed to include, as a part of the amount, the specified balance which may 

 remain unpaid on the former grant for the same object. 



General Meetings. 



On Wednesday, June 27, at 4 p.m., in the Sheldonian Theatre, His Royal 

 Highness, the Prince Consort, resigned the office of President to The Lord 

 Wrottesley, F.R.S., who took the Chair and delivered an Address, for which 

 see page lv. 



On Thursday Evening, June 28, at 8| p.m., a Conversazione took place in 

 the University Museum. 



On Friday Afternoon, June 29, at 4 p.m., in the Sheldonian Theatre, the 

 Rev. Professor Walker, F.R.S., delivered a Discourse on the Physical Con- 

 stitution of the Sun. 



On Friday Evening, the University Museum was opened for a Soiree with 

 Experiments. 



On Monday Afternoon, July 2, at 2 p.m., in the Sheldonian Theatre, 

 Captain Sherard Osborn, R.N., delivered a Discourse on Arctic Discovery. 



On Monday Evening, at 8^ p.m., a Conversazione took place in the 

 University Museum. 



On Tuesday Evening, July 3, at 8£ p.m., the University Museum was 

 opened for a Soiree with Microscopes. 



On Wednesday, July 4, at 3 p.m., the concluding General Meeting took 

 place in the Sheldonian Theatre, when the Proceedings of the General Com- 

 mittee, and the Grants of Money for Scientific purposes, were explained to 

 the Members. 



The Meeting was then adjourned to Manchester*. 



* The Meeting is appointed to take place on Wednesday, the 4th of September, 1861. 



