INDEX. 



lAn asterisk (*) signifes that no abstract oftlie communication is given.'] 



OBJECTS and rules of the Association, 

 xxvii. 



riaces and times of meeting, with names 

 of officers, from commencement, xxxvi. 



List of former Presidents and Secretaries 

 of Sections, xliii. 



List of evening lectures, Ivii. 



Lectures to the Operative Classes, Ix. 



Officers of Sectional Committees present 

 at Birmingham, Ixi. 



Treasurer's account, Ixiii. 



Table showing the attendance and re- 

 ceipts at the annual meetings, Ixiv. 



Officers and Council for 18SG-87, Ixvi. 



Report of the Council to the General 

 Committee at Birmingham, Ixvii. 



Recommendationsadopted by the General 

 Committee at Birmingham : involving 

 grants of monej-, Ixx ; not involving 

 grants of money, Ixxv ; communica- 

 tions ordered to be printed in c.vtenso, 

 Ixxvii ; resolutions referred to the 

 Council for consideration, and action 

 if desirable, Ixxviii. 



Synopsis of grants of money appropriated 

 to scientific purposes, Ixxix. 



Places of meeting in 1886 and 1887, 

 Ixxx. 



General statement of sums which have 

 been paid on account of grants for 

 scientific purposes, Ixxxi. 



General meetings, xcii. 



Address by the President, Sir J. William 

 Dawson, C.M.G., LL.D., F.R.S., F.G.S., 

 1. 



Abercromby (Hon. R.), the peculiar sun- 

 rise-shadows of Adam's peak in Ceylon, 

 528. 



Abney (Capt.) on standards of light, 39 ; 

 on the best methods of recording the 

 direct intensity of solar radiation, 63 ; 

 on wave-length tables of the spectra of 

 the elements, 167; on electrolysis in 

 its physical and chemical bearings, 

 308. 



Abraham (Dr. P. S.), observationsonfour 

 crania from Kimberley, "West Austra- 

 lia (Mr. Hardman's collection), 836. 



Absorption spectra of uranium salts, W, 

 J. Russell and W. Lapraik on the, 576. 



Acland (A. H. D.), working men's co- 

 operative organisations in Great 

 Britain, 762. 



Adams (F. D.) on the coal-bearing rocks 

 of Canada, 63it ; the anorthosite rocks 

 of Canada, 666. 



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

 analysis of tidal observations, 40 ; on 

 Sir W. Thomson's coiTection of the 

 ordinary equilibrium theory of the 

 tides, 541. 



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

 light, 39; on the best means of com- 

 paring and reducing magnetic obser- 

 vations, 64; on standards for use in 

 electrical measurements, 145. 



Adamson (S. A.), notes on the discovery 

 of a large fossil tree in the lower coal- 

 measures at Clayton, near Bradford,628. 



*Afghan frontier, C. E. D. Black on the, 

 734. 



*Africa, a trader on the west coast of, and 

 in the interior, by R. Capper, 736. 



, South, the coal deposits of, by Prof. 



T. R. Jones, 641. 



* , the west coast of, telegraphic 



enterprise and deep sea research on, 

 by J. Y. Buchanan, 731. 



*Air of dwellings and schools, the, and 

 its relation to disease, by Prof. T. Car- 

 nelley, 577. 



*Album, a curious, remarks on, by H. 

 Beaugrand, 731. 



Algaj, supposed fossil. Sir J. W. Dawson 

 on Canadian examples of, 651. 



Algeria, Western, a journey in, in May 

 1886, by Col. Sir L. Plavfair, 735. 



*Alliott (Miss F. S.) on the Dutch in 

 South Africa, 834. 



Allotments, Lord Onslow on, 765. 



AUport (S. B.) on recent improvements 

 in sporting guns and their accessories, 

 820. 



