INDEX. 
[An asterisk (**) signifies that no abstract of the communication is given } 
BJECTS and rules of the Association, 
xxi. 
‘Places and times of meeting, with names 
of officers, from commencement, xxviii. 
List of former Presidents and Secretaries 
of Sections, xxxv. 
List of evening lectures, xlix. 
Lectures to the Operative Classes, li. 
Officers of Sectional Committees present 
at Southport, lii. 
Table showing the attendance and re- 
ceipts at the annual meetings, liv. 
Treasurer’s account, lvi. 
Officers and Council for 1883-84, lvii. 
Report of the Council to the General 
Committee at Southport, Iviii. 
Recommendations adopted by the General 
Committee at Southport: involving 
grants of money, Ixi; not involving 
grants of money, Ixiv; communica- 
tions ordered to be printed in extenso, 
lxvi; resolutions referred to the 
Council for consideration, and action 
if desirable, 2b. 
Synopsis of grants of money appropriated 
to scientific purposes, Ixviii. 
Places of meeting in 1884 and 1885, lxix. 
General statement of sums which have 
been paid on account of grants for 
scientific purposes, lxx. 
General meetings, lxxx. 
Address by the President, Prof. Cayley, 
D.C.L., LL.D., F.B.S., &e., 1. 
Abel (Sir F.) on patent legislation, 316. 
Abney (Capt. W. de W.) on the best 
experimental methods that can be used 
in observing total solar eclipses, 49 ; 
on meteoric dust, 126; on fixing a 
standard of white light, 127, 422. 
Absorption spectrum of didymium chlo- 
ride, Prof. A. Schuster and T. G,. Bailey 
on the, 400. 
Ace (Rey. Dr.), foot and mouth disease of 
cattle : its true history and remedy, 620. 
Adams (Prof. J. C.) on the harmonic 
analysis of tidal observations, 49. 
Adams (Prof. W. G.) on standards for 
use in electrical measurements, 41 ; on 
fixing a standard of white light, 127. 
Agricultural statistics, by W. Botly, 619- 
Air resistance, curves of, by Prof. Green- 
hill, 656. 
Alcoholic drinks, the effect of, on length 
of human life, W. B. Robinson on, 620. 
Alcyonaria, the polymorphism of, Prof. 
M. Marshall on, 529. 
Alexander (Gen. Sir J. E.) on the evils 
arising from the pollution of rivers, 
605. 
Algze, fossil, some supposed, from carbon- 
iferous rocks, Prof. W. C. Williamson 
on, 493. 
Algin, a new substance obtained from 
seaweed, E. C. C. Stanford on, 464. 
Allman (Prof.) on the Scottish zoological 
station, 233; on the occupation of a 
table at the zoological station at 
Naples, 234. 
Alpine railways, the construction and 
working of, J. B. Fell on, 633. 
America, Central, the volcanic and earth- 
quake regions of, W. Hancock on, with 
observations on recent phenomena, 594. 
*Ammonia, a new method of recovering 
from sewage, by J. B. Kinnear, 474. 
Ammonias, the substituted, the molecular 
weights of, by Prof. J. Dewar and Dr. 
A. Scott, 460. 
Anderson (Dr. R. J.) on the muscular 
movements that are associated with 
certain complex motions, 544. 
Anemometer, a marine, description of, 
by Dr. W. G. Black, 422, 
Angiosperms, the closed condition of the 
seed-vessel in, Prof. A. 8. Wilson on, 
538. 
Annelides of the Southport sands, Dr. 
Carrington on the, 544. 
Anthracosaurus Edgei (Baily sp.), a large 
sauro-batrachian from the Lower Coal 
Measures, Jarrow colliery, near Castle- 
comer, co. Kilkenny, some additional 
notes on, by W. H. Baily, 496. 
Anthropology, Address by W. Pengelly 
to the Department of, 549. 
Anthropometric Committee, final report 
of the, 253. 
Anthropometry, by Dr. J. G. Garson, 569. 
Archeastacus Willemesii, a new genus 
of Hryonida, by C. Spence Bate, 511 
