INDEX I. 



TO 



REPORTS ON THE STATE OF SCIENCE. 



UbJECTS and rules of the Association, 



xvii. 

 Places and times of meeting, witli names 

 of officers from commencement, xxiv. 

 List of former Presidents and Secretaries 



of the Sections, xxx. 

 List of erening lectures, xxxix. 

 Lectures to the Operative Classes, xli. 

 Table showing the attendance and re- 

 ceipts at the Annual Meetings, xlii. 

 Treasurer's account, xliv. 

 Officers and Council for 1871-72, xlv. 

 Officers of Sectional Committees, xlvi. 

 Report of Council to the General Com- 

 mittee at Edinburgh, xlvii. 

 Keport of the Kew Committee, 1870-71, 



1. 

 Accounts of the Kew Committee, 1870- 



71, Ixyiii. 

 Kecommendations adopted by the Gene- 

 ral Committee at Edinburgh : — invol- 

 ving grants of money, Ixix ; applica- 

 tions for reports and researches, Ixxii ; 

 application to Government, Ixxiii; 

 communications to be printed in ex- 

 tetiso, Ixxiii ; resolutions referred to 

 the Council by the General Committee, 

 Ixxiii. 

 Synopsis of grants of money appropriated 



to scientific purposes, IxxiA'. 

 General statement of sums which have 

 been paid on account of gi-ants for 

 scientific purposes, Ixxvi. 

 AiTangement of General Meetings, 



Ixxxiii. 

 Address by the President, Professor 

 Sir William Thomson, LL.D., F.R.S., 

 Ixxxiv. 



Adams (Prof. J. C.) on the rainfall of 

 the British Isles, 98 ; on tidal obser- 

 Tations, 203. 



Adderley (Rt. Hon. Sir C. B.) on a 



uniformity of weights and measures 



198. 

 Aerolites, 37. 

 Anhydrous chloral, on the physiological 



action of, 148. 

 Agisted (Prof. D. T.) on the treatment 



and utilization of sewage, 166. 

 Arterialization, on the heat generated 



in the blood during the process of, 



137. 

 Astronomy, meteoric, papers relating to, 



44. 



Balfour (Prof. J. H.) on physiological 



experimentation, 144. 

 Barnes (Rev. H.) on the practicability 

 of establishing "a close time" for 

 the protection of indigenous animals, 

 197. 

 Bateman (J. F.) on the rainfall of the 



British Isles, 98. 

 Baxter (R. Dudley) on a uniformity of 

 plan for the census of the United 

 Kingdom, 57. 

 Bazalgette (J. V. N.) on a imiformityof 



weights and measures, 198. 

 Beyer (C. F.) on steam-boiler explo- 

 sions, 166. 

 Binney (E. W.) on the rate of increase 



of undergroimd temperature, 14. 

 Birt (W. II.) on the discussion of obser- 

 vations of spots on the surface of the 

 lunar crater Plato, 60. 

 Black (Dr.), Letters from M. Lavoisier 



to, 189. 

 Blood, eflects of some narcotic vapours 

 on the minute circulation of the, 159. 



, report on the heat generated in 



the, during the process of arterializa- 

 tion, 137. 

 Boiler- explosions, report on the various 



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