INDEX I. 



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REPORTS ON THE STATE OF SCIENCE. 



Objects and rules of the Association, 

 xvii. 



Places and times of meeting, with names 

 of officers from commencement, xx. 



Treasurer's account, xxiv. 



Members of Council from commence- 

 ment, XXV. 



Officers and Council for 1861-62, xxviii. 



Officers of Sectional Committees, xxix. 



Corresponding Members, xxx. 



Report of Council to General Committee 

 at Manchester, xxxi. 



Report of the Kew Committee for 1860- 

 1861, xxxiii. 



Report of the Parhamentary Committee, 

 xxxix. 



Recommendations adopted by the Ge- 

 neral Committee at Manchester : — in- 

 volving grants of money, xxxix ; appli- 

 cations for reports and researches, xlii ; 

 applications to Government or public 

 institutions, xliii; communications to 

 be printed entire among the Reports, 

 xliii. 



Synopsis of grants of money appropriated 

 to scientific purposes, xhii. 



General statement of sums paid on ac- 

 count of grants for scientific purposes, 

 xlv. 



Extracts from resolutions of the General 

 Committee, xlix. 



Arrangement of General Meetings, 1. 



Address by WilHam Faii-bairn, Esq., li. 



Acid, Drs. E. Schunck, R. A. Smith, 

 and H. E. Roscoe on the manufacture 

 ' of sulphuric, 109; of nitric, 120; ox- 

 ahc, 120 ; pyroligneous, 122. 



Agar (the Hon. Leopold), third report 

 on steam-ship performance, 190. 



Almn, Drs. E. Schunck, R. A. Smith, and 

 H. E. Roscoe on the manufacture of, 

 117. 



Andaman Islands, Prof. Owen on the 

 psychical and physical characters of the 

 Mincopies, or natives of the, 241. 



Aniline colours, Drs. E. Schunck, R. A. 

 Smith, and H. E. Roscoe on the 

 manufacture of, 127. 



Apteryx, report on the present state of 

 our knowledge of the birds of the 

 genus, living in New Zealand, by Philip 

 Lutley Sclater and Ferdinand von 

 Hochstetter, 176. 



Atherton (Charles), report on freight as 

 affected by differences in the dynamic 

 properties of steam-ships, 82. 



Balloon committee, Colonel Sykes's re- 

 port from the, 249. 



Birt (W. R.), contribution to a report on 

 the physical aspect of the moon, 181. 



Bleaching-powder, Drs. E. Schunck, 

 R. A. Smith, and H. E. Roscoe on the 

 manufacture of, 109. 



Byerley (Mr.), preliminary report of the 

 dredging committee for the Mersey 

 and Dee, 188. 



Caithness (the Earl of), third report on 

 steam-ship performance, 190. 



Celestial photography, report on the pro- 

 gress of, by Warren De la Rue, 94. 



Chemistry, manufacturing, report on the 

 progress of, in South Lancashire, by 

 Drs. E. Schunck, R. Angus Smith, and 

 H. E. Roscoe, 108. 



Coal-mines, British, Thomas Dobson's 

 report on the explosions in, during the 

 year 1859, 236. 



