CONTENTS. 



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 Objects and Rules of the Association xxiii 



Places and Times of Meeting and Officers from commenceuient xxxii 



Presidents and Secretaries of tile Sections of the Association from com- 

 mencement xxxix 



Evening Lectures liii 



Lectures to the Operative Classes lv 



Officers of Sectional Committees present at the Montreal Meeting lvii 



Treasurer's Account lix 



Tahle showing the Attendance and Receipts at Annual Meetings lx 



Officers and Council, 1884-85 lxii 



Report of the Council to the General Committee lxiii 



Supplementary Report lxvii 



Recommendations adopted by the General Committee for Additional Re- 

 ports and Researches in Science lxix 



Synopsis of Money Grants Ixxvi 



Places of Meeting in 1885 and 1886 lxxvii 



General Statement of Sums which have been paid on account of Grants 



for Scientific Purposes lxxviii 



Arrangement of the General Meetings lxxxviii 



Address bv the President, the Right Hon. Lord Rayleigh, M.A., D.C.L., 

 F.R.S., F.R.A.S., F.R.G.S., Professor of Experimental Physics in the 

 University of Cambridge 1 



REPORTS ON THE STATE OF SCIENCE. 



Report of the Committee, consisting of Sir William Thomson, Professor 

 A. W. Williamson, Mr. W.II.Preece, Mr. Barlow, and Mr. J.M.Thomson 

 (Secretary), appointed to consider and advise on the best means for facilitat- 

 ing the adoption of the Metric System of Weights and Measures in Great 

 Britain 27 



Report of the Committee, consisting of Professor Balfour Stewart (Secre- 

 tary), Professor Stokes, Mr. G. Johnstone Stoney, Professor Sir H. E. 

 Roscoe, Professor Schuster, Captain Abney, and Mr. G. J. Symons, ap- 

 pointed for the purpose of considering the best methods of recording the 



direct intensity of Solar Radiation 2$ 



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