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REPORT 1865. 



Oyster Breeding 25 



Gibraltar Caves Researches ... 150 



Kent's Hole Excavations 100 



Moon's Surface Observations ... 35 



Marine Fauna 25 



Dredging Aberdeenshire 25 



Dredging Channel Islands 50 



Zoological Nomenclature 5 



Resistance of Floating Bodies in 



Water 100 



Bath Waters Analysis 8 



Luminous Meteors 40 



£1591 7 10 



1865. £ s. d. 

 Maintaining the Establishment 



of Kew Observatory 600 



Balloon Committee 100 



Ilvdroida 13 



Rain-Gauges 30 



Tidal Observations in the Humber 6 8 



Hexylic Compounds 20 



Amyl Compounds 20 



Irish Flora 25 



American Mollusca 3 9 



Organic Acids 20 



Lingula Flags Excavation 10 



Eurypterus 50 



Electrical Standards 100 



Malta Caves Researches 30 



Extracts from Resolutions of the General Committee. 



Committees and individuals, to whom grants of money for scientific pur- 

 poses have been entrusted, are required to present to each following meeting 

 of the Association a Report of the progress which has been made ; with a 

 statement of the sums which have been expended, and the balance which re- 

 mains disposable on each grant. 



Grants of pecuniary aid for scientific purposes from the funds of the Asso- 

 ciation expire at the ensuing meeting, unless it shall appear by a Report that 

 the Recommendations have been acted on, or a continuation of them be 

 ordered by the General Committee. 



In each Committee, the Member first named is the person entitled to call on 

 the Treasurer, William Spottiswoode, Esq., 50 Grosvenor Place, London, S.W., 

 for such portion of the sum granted as may from time to time be required. 



In grants of money to Committees, the Association does not contemplate 

 the payment of personal expenses to the members. 



In all cases where additional grants of money are made for the continua- 

 tion of Researches at the cost of the Association, the sum named shall be 

 deemed to include, as a part of the amount, the specified balance which may 

 remain unpaid on the former grant for the same object. 



General Meetings. 



On Wednesday Evening, September 6, at 8 p.m., in the Town Hall, Sir 

 Charles Lyell, Bart., M.A.,D.C.L., LL.D., F.R.S., F.G.S., resigned the ofiice of 

 President" to Professor John Phillips, M.A., LL.D., P.R.S., E.G.S., who took 

 the Chair, and delivered an Address, for which see page li. 



On Thursday Evening, September 7, at 8 p.m., a Soiree took place in the 

 Town Hall. 



On Eriday Evening, September 8, at 8.30 p.m., in the Town Hall, Joseph 

 Beete Jukes, Esq., E.R.S., E.G.S., delivered a Discourse on the "Probabili- 

 ties as to the Position and Extent of the Coal-Measures beneath the Red 

 Rocks of the Midland Counties." 



On Monday Evening, September 11, at 8 p.m., a Soiree took place at the 

 •Exhibition of the Society of Artists. 



On Tuesday Evening, September 12, at 8 p.m., a Soiree took place in the 

 Town Hall. 



On Wednesday, September 13, at 3 p.m., the concluding General Meeting 

 took place, when the Proceedings of the General Committee, and the Grants of 

 Money for Scientific purposes, were explained to the Members. 



The Meeting was then adjourned to Nottingham*. 



* The Meeting is appointed to take place on Wednesday, August 22, 1866. 



