INDEX. 



\_An asterisk (*) signifies that no abstract of the communication is given.'] 



OBJECTS and rules of the Association, 

 xxiii. 



Places ami times of meeting, with names 

 of officers, from commencement, xxxii. 



List of former Presidents and Secretaries 

 of Sections, xxxix. 



List of evening lectures, liii. 



Lectures to the Operative Classes, lv. 



Officers of Sectional Committees present 

 at Montreal, lvii. 



Treasurer's account, lix. 



Table showing the attendance and re- 

 ceipts at annual meetings, lx. 



Officers and Council for 1884-85, lxii. 



Report of the Council to the General 

 Committee at Montreal, lxiii ; supple- 

 mentary report, lxvii. 



Eecommendationsadopted by the General 

 Committee at Montreal : involving 

 grants of money, lxix ; not involving 

 grants of money, lxxii ; communica- 

 tions ordered to be printed in extenso, 

 lxxiv ; resolutions referred to the 

 Council for consideration, and action 

 if desirable, lxxv. 



Synopsis of grants of money appropriated 

 to scientific purposes, lxxvi. 



Places of meeting in 1885 and 188G, 

 lxxvii. 



General statement of sums which have 

 been paid on account of grants for 

 scientific purposes, lxxviii. 



General meetings, lxxxviii. 



Address by the President, Prof. Lord 

 Rayleigh, M.A., D.C.L., F.R.S., &c, 1. 



Abel (Sir F.) on patent legislation, 293. 



Abney (Capt. W. de W.) on the best 

 methods of recording the direct inten- 

 sity of solar radiation, 28 ; on meteoric 

 dust, 38 ; on the present state of our 

 knowledge of spectrum analysis, 295 : 

 on wave-length tables of the spectra 

 of the elements, 351. 



Absorption, the mechanism of, Prof. E. 

 A. Schafer on, 783. 



Acadian and Scottish glacial beds, points 

 of dissimilarity and resemblance be- 

 tween, R. Richardson on, 722. 



Acadian basin, the, in American geology^ 

 L. W. Bailey on, 717. 



Acadian fauna, the geological age of the, 

 by G. F. Matthew, 742. 



•Accidents at sea, the prevention of, 

 Adm. J. E. Commerell on, S97. 



Adams (F. D.) on the occurrence of the 

 Norwegian ' apatitbringer ' in Canada, 

 with a few notes on the microscopic 

 characters of some Laurentian amphi- 

 bolites, 717. 



Adams (Prof. J. C.) on the harmonic 

 analysis of tidal observations, 33 ; 

 * note on Newton's theory of astro- 

 nomical refraction, and on his expla- 

 nation of the motion of the moon's 

 apogee, G4.3. 



Adams (R. C), the phosphate industry of 

 Canada, 853. 



Adams (Prof. W. G.) on standards for 

 use in electrical measurements, 29. 



Addresses presented to the Association 

 in Canada, 925. 



Africa, Central, maps of, down to the 

 commencement of the seventeenth 

 century, E. G. Ravenstein on, S03. 



* , Eastern, Mr. Joseph Thomson's 



recent exploration in, a communica- 

 tion on, by Gen. Sir J. H. Lefroy, 802. 



, South, the geology of, Prof. T. R. 



Jones on, 736. 



*Ae?icultural implements, D. Pidgeon 

 on, 896. 



Agricultural resources of Nova Scotia, 

 Maj.-Gen. Laurie on the, 849. 



Agricultural resources of Ontario, by J. 

 Carnegie, 848. 



Agriculture, British, the position and 

 prospects of, by Prof. W. Fream, 847. 



, British and Canadian, by Prof. J. 



P. Sheldon, 847. 



A. K., the trained Indian explorer, the 

 remarkable journey of, on the frontiers 

 of India and China, by T. Saunders, 803. 



'■'Alexander (Dr. W.) on the physiology 

 of therapeutics of the chloral hydrate 

 and anaesthetics generally, 785. 



America, British North, a search in, for 

 lost colonies of Northmen and Portu- 

 guese, by R. G. Haliburton, 810. 



