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 Coimcil for 1864-65, xxviii. 



Officers of Sectional Committees, xxix. 



Corresponding Members, xxx. 



Report of Council to General Com- 

 mittee, xxxi. 



Report of the Kew Committee, 1863-G4, 

 xxxi. 



Accounts of the Kew Committee, 1863- 

 64, xlvi. 



Report of the Parliamentaiy Committee, 

 xl^-ii. 



Recommendations adopted by the Ge- 

 neral Committee at Bath : — inAolving 

 grants of money, xlviii ; applications 

 for reports and researches, li ; appli- 

 cations to Government or institutions, 

 li ; communications to be printed en- 

 tire among the Reports, lii. 



Synopsis of grants of money appropriated 

 to scientific purposes, lii. 



General statement of sums which have 

 been paid on accoimt of grants for 

 scientihc pm-poses, liv. 



Extracts from resolutions of the General 

 Committee, lix. 



Arrangement of General Meetings, lix. 



Address by Sir Charles Lyell, Bart., Ix. 



Adderley (Right Hon. C. B.), report on 

 the uniformity of weights and mea- 

 sures, 102. 



Aiiy (G. B.), report on the uniformity 

 of weights and measures, 102. 



Alloys, Dr. Matthiessen on the electrical 

 permanency of metals and their, 351. 



1864. 



Amyl, nitrate of. Dr. B. W. Richardson 

 on the physiological action of, 120 ; 

 physical effect on dead organic mat- 

 ters, 120 ; effects on the skin, 121 ; 

 patfiological effects of the, 127 ; com- 

 parison of effects of the, with other 

 amyl-compounds and other bodies, 

 127 ; cause of the rapidity of the cir- 

 culation under, 127. 



Armstrong (Sir WiUiam), report on the 

 tmiformity of weights and measm'es, 

 102. 



Atlantic cable, William Fairbairn's pre- 

 liminary investigation of the me- 

 chanical properties of the proposed, 

 408. 



Balloon ascents in 1863 and 1864, James 

 Glaisher's account of meteorological 

 and physical observations in nine, 193 

 fourteenth ascent, 200 ; fifteenth, 204 

 sixteenth, 214 ; seventeenth, 222 

 eighteenth, 228; nineteenth, 2.34 

 twentieth, 236; twenty-first, 240 

 twenty-second, 250. 



Bateman (J. F.), report on tidal obser- 

 vations made on the Huniber and 

 rivers Trent and Ouse, 1864, 129. 



Brady (George S.), report on deep-sea 

 dredging on the coasts of Northum- 

 berland and Durham, 189. 



Brayley (E. W.), report on observations 

 of luminous meteors, 1863-64, 1. 



Bright (Sir C), report on standards of 

 electrical resistance, 345. 



British Isles, G. J. SjTiions on the fall 

 of rain in the, during the vears 1862 

 and 1863, 367. 



Brown (Samuel), report on the uni- 

 formity of weiglits and measures, 102. 



Cable, Atlantic, William Fairbairn's 



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