INDEX I. 
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 1862-63, xxviii. 
Officers of Sectional Committees, xxix. 
Corresponding Members, xxx. 
Report of Council to General Committee 
at Cambridge, xxxi. 
Report of the Kew Committee, 1861-62, 
XXxii. 
Report of the Parliamentary Committee, 
XXXIX. 
Recommendations adopted by the Ge- 
neral Committee at Cambridge :—in- 
volving grants of money, xxxix; ap- 
plications for reports and researches, 
xli; applications to Government or 
public institutions, xliii; communi- 
cations to be printed entire among the 
Reports, xliii. 
Synopsis of grants of money appropriated 
to scientific purposes, xliii. 
General statement of sums paid on ac- 
count of grants for scientific purposes, 
xly. 
Arrangement of General Meetings, xlix. 
Extracts from resolutions of the General 
Committee, 1. 
Address by the Rev. Prof. Willis, M.A., 
li. 
Airy (G. B) on the strains in the inte- 
rior of beams, 82; report on the ade- 
quacy of existing data for carrying 
into effect the suggestion of Gauss, to 
apply his general theory of terrestrial 
x to the magnetic variations, 
Alloys, Dr. Matthiessen on the variation 
of the electrical resistance of, due to 
change of temperature, 136. 
Alps, Jala, Ball on the thermometric 
cbservations in the, 363. 
Armour-plate defences, T. Aston on 
rifled guns and projectiles adapted for 
attacking, 103. 
Aston (T.) on rifled guns and projectiles 
adapted for attacking armour-plate 
defences, 103. 
Atmosphere, on the vertical moyements 
of the, 165, 
Ball (John) on thermometric observa- 
tions in the Alps, 363. 
Balloon ascents, James Glaisher’s ac- 
count of meteorological and physical 
observations in eight, 376. 
Bateman (J. F.), report on tidal obser- 
vations on the Humber, 101; report 
on technical and scientific evidence in 
courts of law, 373. 
Beams, on the strains in the interior of, 
Brayley (EK. W.), report on observations 
of luminous meteors, 1 
British Is'es, G. J. Symons on the rain- 
fall in the, 293. 
Caithness (the Earl of), fourth report of 
the committee on steamship perform- 
ance, 282, 
Carpenter (P. P.), report upon the best 
means of advancing science through 
the agency of the mercantile marine, 
122 
Cayley (Arthur), report on the adequacy 
of existing data for carrying into effect 
the suggestion of Gauss, to apply his 
general theory of terrestrial magnetism 
to the magnetic variations, 170; re- 
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