INDEX I. 



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REPORTS ON THE STATE OF SCIENCE. 



Objects and rules of the Association, 

 xvii. 



Places and times of meeting, -u-ith names 

 of officers from commencement, xx. 



List of former Presidents and Secretaries 

 of the Sections, xxvi. 



List of evening- lectures, xxxv. 



Lectures to the Operative Classes, xxxvii. 



Table showing the attendance and re- 

 ceipts at the Annual Meetings, xxxviii. 



Treasm-er's account, xl. 



Officers and Council for 1870-71, xli. 



Officers of Sectional Committees, xlii. 



Keport of Council to the General Com- 

 mittee at Liverpool, xliii. 



Beport of the Kew Committee, 1869-70, 

 xlv. 



Accounts of the Kew Committee, 1869- 

 70, Ivii. 



Recommendations adopted by the Ge- 

 neral Committee at Liverpool: — invol- 

 ving grants of money, Iviii ; applica- 

 tions for reports and researches, Ixi ; 

 application to Government, Ixii ; com- 

 munications to be printed in extenso, 

 Ixii ; resolutions referred to the 

 Council by the General Committee, 

 Ixiii. 



Synopsis of grants of money appropriated 

 to scientific purposes, Ixiii. 



General statement of sums which have 

 been paid on account of grants for 

 scientific pm'poses, Ixv. 



Extracts from resolutions of the General 

 Committee, Ixxi. 



Arrangement of General Meetings, 

 Ixxii. 



Address by the President, Professor 

 Huxley, LL.D., F.R.S., Ixxiii. 



Abel (F. A.) on the chemical nature of 

 cast iron, 13, 



Adams (Prof. J. C.) on tidal observa- 

 tions, 120 ; on the rainfall of the Bri- 

 tish isles, 170. 



Adderley (Rt. Hon. C. B.) on a uni- 

 formity of weights and measures, 232. 



Aerolites, 91. 



Air, experiments on the, in sewers and 

 drains, 72. 



, microscopical examination of the, 



in sewers and drains, 74. 



Amery (F.), observations of underground 

 temperature, 33. 



Arterialization, Dr. A. Gamgee on the 

 heat generated in the blood in the 

 process of, 228. 



Ashton (Messrs.) and Storey, on a new 

 steam-power meter, 151. 



Astronomer Royal (The) on tidal obser- 

 vations, 120. 



Barnes (the Rev. H.) on the practica- 

 bility of establishing "a close time " 

 for the protection of indigenous ani- 

 niixis, 13. 



Bateman (J. F.) on tidal observations, 

 120; on the rainfall of the British 

 Isles, 170. 



Buialgette (J. V. N.) on a iiniformity of 

 weights and measures, 232. 



Belcher (Admiral Sir E.) on tidal ob- 

 servations, 120. 



Beyer (Charles F.) on steam-boiler ex- 

 plosions, 1. 



Bidder (G. P.) on the stability, propul- 

 sion, and sea-going (Qualities ot ships, 

 44. 



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

 of undergi'ound temperature, 29. 



Blood, Dr. A. Gamgee on the heat 

 generated in the, in the process of 

 arterialization, 228. 



Boiler- expl osions,report of the committee 



