INDEX I. 
TO 
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 1863-64, xxviii. 
Officers of Sectional Committees, xxix. 
Corresponding Members, xxx. 
Report of Council to General Committee 
at Newcastle-on-Tyne, xxxi. 
Report of the Kew Committee, 1862-63, 
23.8.48 
Accounts of the Kew Committee, 1862- 
63, XxXxvii. 
Report of the Parliamentary Committee, 
XXXVill. 
Recommendations adopted by the Ge- 
neral Committee at Newcastle-upon- 
Tyne:—involving grants of money, 
Xxxix; applications for reports and 
researches, xli; applications to Govern- 
ment, xlii; communications to be 
printed entire among the Reports, xlii. 
Synopsis of grants of money appropriated 
to scientific purposes, xliii. 
General statement of sums which have 
been paid on account of grants for 
scientific purposes, xly. 
Extracts from resolutions of the General 
Committee, 1. 
Arrangement of General Meetings, l. 
- by Sir William G. Armstrong, 
Abel (F. A.) on the system of manu- 
facture of gun-cotton as carried on in 
the Imperial Austrian establishment, 
8; on the composition, and some pro- 
perties, of specimens of gun-cotton 
prepared at the Austrian Government 
works, 9; on experiments in progress 
bearing upon the manufacture of gun- 
cotton, 14. 
Akin (Dr. C. K.), on the transmuta- 
tion of spectral rays, 93. 
Allman (Dr. George J.), report on the 
present state of our knowledge of the 
reproductive system in the Hydroida, 
351. 
Alloys, Dr. A. Matthiessen on the che- 
mical nature of, 37; on the electrical 
permanency of metals and, 124; on 
the variation of the electric resistance 
of, due to change of temperature, 127, 
America, Philip P. Carpenter on the 
ae of the west coast of North, 
517. 
Ammonium, Dr. George D. Gibb on the 
physiological effects of the bromide of, 
81 
Anderson (John), report on the applica- 
tion of gun-cotton to warlike purposes, 
1 
Animal matter, on the production of 
sulphuret of zinc, blende, selenite, and 
calamine, under the influence of pu- 
trefaction of, 205. 
Antimony, report by T. Sopwith and T, 
Richardson on the local manufacture 
of, 715. 
Antisell’s (Dr.) list of Californian fos- 
sils, 595. 
Armstrong (Sir W. G.), report on the 
application of gun-cotton to warlike 
purposes, 1 
Austrian gun-cotton, analysis of, 33. 
Balloon ascents, meteorological observa- 
tions by James Glaisher in five, made 
in 1863, 426; the ninth ascent, 434 ; 
tenth, 440; eleventh, 444; twelfth, 
452; thirteenth, 466, 
