CONTENTS. 



Pag« 



Objects and Rules of the Association xvii 



Places of Meeting and Officers from commencement xx 



Treasurer's Account xxiv 



Table of Council from commencement xxv 



Officers and Council xxviii 



Officers of Sectional Committees xxix 



Corresponding Members xxx 



Report of the Council to the General Committee xxxi 



Report of the Kew Committee xxxiii 



Report of the Parliamentary Committee xxxix 



Recommendations for Additional Reports and Researches in Science xxxix 



Synopsis of Money Grants xliii 



General Statement of Sums paid for Scientific Purposes xlv 



Extracts from Resolutions of the General Committee xlix 



Arrangement of the General Meetings ; xlix 



Address of the President li 



REPORTS OF RESEARCHES IN SCIENCE. 



Report on Observations of Luminous Meteors, 1860-61. By a Com- 

 mittee, consisting of James Glaisher, Esq., F.R.S., of the Royal 

 Observatory, Greenwich, Secretary to the British Meteorological 

 Society, &c.; J. H. Gladstone, Esq., i'h.D., F.R.S. &c. ; R. P. 

 Greg, Esq., F.G.S. &c. ; and E. J, Lowe, Esq., F.R.A.S., M.B.M.S. 

 &c I 



Report on the Action of Prison Diet and Discipline on the Bodily 

 Functions of Prisoners. — Part I. By Edward Smith, M.D., LL.B., 

 F.R.S., Assistant Physician to the Hospital lor Consumption, Bromp- 

 ton ; and W. R. Milner, M.R.C.S., Surgeon to the Convict Prison, 

 Wakefield. With Appendices 44; 



Freight as affected by Differences in the Dynamic Properties of Steam- 

 ships. By Charles Atherton, Chief Engineer, H.M. Dockyard, 

 Woolwich 82 



Report on the Progress of Celestial Photography since the Aberdeen 

 Meeting. By Warren De la Rue, F.R.S 94 



