INDEX. 
[An asterisk (*) signifies that no abstract of the communication is given.] 
BJECTS and rules of the Association, 
Xxvii. 
Places and times of meeting, with names 
of officers, from commencement, xxxvi. 
List of former Presidents and Secretaries 
of Sections, xliii. 
List of evening lectures, lvii. 
Lectures to the Operative Classes, lx. 
Officers of Sectional Committees present 
at Aberdeen, 1xi. 
Treasurer’s account, lxiii. 
Table showing the attendance and re- 
ceipts at the annual meetings, lxiv. 
Officers and Council for 1885-86, Ixvi. 
Report of the Council to the General 
Committee at Aberdeen, Ixvii. 
Recommendationsadopted by the General 
Committee at Aberdeen: involving 
grants of money, lxxi; not involving 
grants of money, lxxiv; communica- 
tions ordered to be printed in extenso, 
Ixxvii; resolutions referred to the 
Council for consideration, and action 
if desirable, ib. 
Synopsis of grants of money appropriated 
to scientific purposes, Ixix, 
Places of meeting in 1886 and 1887, 
Ibo. # 
General statement of sums which have 
been paid on account of grants for 
scientific purposes, Ixxxi. 
General meetings, xcii. 
Address by the President, the Right 
Hon. Sir Lyon Playfair, K.C.B., M.P., 
B_ES., 1. 
Abel (Sir F.), on patent legislation, 695. 
* Aberdeen Bay, the movement of land in, 
by W. Smith, 1193. 
Aberdeenshire, stone circles in, by J. 
Milne, 1223. 
, notes on a recent antiquarian find 
in, by Dr. F. M. Moir, 1223. 
——, the agriculture of, by Col. Innes, 
1161. 
——, the stone circles in, with special! re- 
1885. 
ference to those in the more Lowland 
parts of the county, by Rey. J. Peter, 
1221. 
*Aberdeenshire plants as food for ani- 
mals, W. Wilson, jun., on, 1088. 
Abney (Capt. W.de W.) on meteoric dust, 
34; on standards of white light, 61; on 
the best methods of recording the direct 
intensity of solar radiation, 156; on 
wave-length tables of the spectra of the 
elements and compounds, 288. 
Abnormal andarrested development as an 
indication of evolutionary history, by 
Dr. J. G. Garson, 1226. 
*Accuracy of focus necessary for sensibly 
perfect definition, Lord Rayleigh on the, 
930. 
Adams (Prof. J. C.) on the harmonic 
analysis of tidal observations, 35. 
Adams (Prof. W. G.) on standards for 
use in electrical measurements, 31; on 
standards of white light, 61. 
Africa, East Central, notes on a recent ex- 
amination of the geology of, by Prof. H. 
Drummond, 1032. 
*, , West, the Portuguese possessions 
in, by H. H. Johnston, 1132. 
African philology, the progress of, R. N. 
Cust on, 1105. 
Agricultural investigation and education, 
by T. Jamieson, 1177. 
Agricultural situation, the, by Prof. W. 
Fream, 1161. 
Agriculture, Scottish, recent changes in, 
Major P. G. Craigie on, 1162. - 
Agriculture of Aberdeenshire, the, by Col. 
Innes, 1161. 
*Aiken (J.) ona new kind of colour appa- 
ratus for physiological experiment, 1079. 
Albania, the flint-knappers’ art in, by A. 
J. Evans, 1216. 
Albuminous substances contained in the 
blood of vertebrate and invertebrate 
animals, a comparative view of the, by 
Dr. W. D. Halliburton, 1077. 
Algebraical determinants, the reduction 
of, W. H. L. Russell on, 910. 
Allen(A H.) *an apparatus for determin- 
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