GEJsTERAL MEETINGS. 



Ixxxvii 



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 Chemical Constitution of Cast 



Iron 80 



Iron and Steel Manufacture ... 100 



Methyl Series 30 



Organic remains in Limestone 



Kocks... 10 



Earthquakes in Scotland 10 



British Fossil Corals 50 



Hagshot Leaf-heds 30 



Fossil Flora 25 



Tidal Observations 100 



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Underground Temperature 30 



Spectroscopic Investigations of 



Animal Suljstances 5 



Organic Acids 12 



Kiltorcan Fossils 20 



Chemical Constitution and Phy- 

 siological Action Relations ... 15 



Mountain Limestone Fossils 25 



Utilization of Sewage 10 



Products of Digestion 10 



.£1622 



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 Keport of the progress whicli 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 foi* scientific purposes from the funds of the Asso- 

 ciation expire at the ensuing Meeting, unless it shall appear by a Eeport that 

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

 ordered by the General Committee. 



Members and Committees who arc entrusted with sums of money for col- 

 lecting specimens of Natural History are requested to reserve the specimens 

 so obtained for distribution by authority of the Association. / 



In each Committee, the Member first named is the person entitle'd to call on 

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

 for such portion of the simi granted as may from time to time bo 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 arc made for the continua- 

 tion of Ecsearches at the cost of the Association, the sum named shall b-e 

 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, August IS, at 8 p.m., in the Yictoria Hall, 

 Dr. Joseph Daltou Hooker, E.Il.lS., F.L.S., President, resigned the office of 

 President to Professor G. G. Stokes, D.C.L., F.E.S., who took the Chair, 

 and delivered an Address, for which see page Ixxxix. 



On Thursday Evening, August 19, at 8 p.m., a Soire'e took place in the 

 Albert Memorial Museum. 



On Friday Evening, August 20, at 8.30 p.m., in the Yictoria Hall, Prof. Phil- 

 lips, LL.D., F.P.S., F.G.S., delivered a Discourse on '■ Vesuvius." 



On Saturday Evening, August 21, in the Victoria Hall, Prof. W. A. 

 MiUer, M.D., F.E.S., delivered a Discourse on "Experimental Illustrations 

 of the modes of determining the Composition of the Sun and Heavenly Bodies 

 by the Spectrum " to the Operative Classes of Exeter. 



