INDEX I. 



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REPORTS ON THE STATE OF SCIENCE. 



Objects and mles of the Association, 

 xvii. 



Places and times of meeting, with names 

 of officers from commencement, xx. 



List of former Presidents and Secretaries 

 of the Sections, xxv. 



List of evening- lectnres, xxxiv. 



Lectures to the Operative CLisses, xxxvi. 



Officers and Council for 1869-70, xxxvii. 



Table showing the attendance and re- 



' ceipts at the Annual Meetings, xxxviii. 



Treasurer's account, xl. 



Officers of Sectional Committees, xli. 



Report of Council to the General Com- 

 mittee at Exeter, xlii. 



Peport of the Kew Committee, 1868-69, 

 xliv. 



Accounts of the Kew Committee, 1868- 

 69, xlix. 



Recommendations adopted by the Ge- 

 neral Committee at Exeter: — invol- 

 ving grants of money, Ixxv ; applica- 

 tions for reports and researches, Ixxvii ; 

 application to Government, Ixxviii ; 

 communications to he printed in ex- 

 fcnso, Ixxviii ; resolutions referred to 

 the Council by the General Committee, 

 Ixxix. 

 Synopsis of grants of money appropriated 



to scientific purposes, Ixxxvii. 

 General statement of sums which have 

 been paid on accoimt of gi-ants for 

 scientiiic purposes, Ixxxi. 

 Extracts from resolutions of the General 



Committee, Ixxxvii. 

 Arrangement of General Meetings, 



Ixxxvii. 

 Address by the President,George Gabriel 

 StokeSj'D.C.L., Sec.R.S., Ixxxix. 



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

 cast iron, 82. 



Absorption and reflection of obsciu-eheat 



Prof. Magnus on, 214. 

 Adams (Prof.) on the rainfall of the 



British Isles, 383. 

 Adderiey (the Rt. Plon. C. B.) on a 



uniformity of weiffhts and measures, 



308. 

 Aerolites, 276 ; catalogue of, by R. P. 



Greg, 282. 

 Agricultural machinery, interim report 



on, 404. 

 Amvlic alcohol, physiological action of, 



416. 

 Animals, report on the practicability of 



establishing "a close time" for the 



protection of indigenous, 91. 

 Annelids from the south coast of Devon 



and Cornwall, 89. 

 Armour-plates, Mr. .Joseph Whitworlli, 



on the penetration of, with long 



shells of large capacity fired obliquely, 



430. 

 Astrffiidos, British fossil, 156. 



Baily (W. Hellier) on fossils obtained at 

 Kiltorkan Quarry, co. Kilkenny, 73. 



Balfour (Dr. J. H.) on the connexion 

 between chemical constitution and 

 physiological action, 209. 



Barn-owl, food of the, 94. 



Barrow Htematite Iron and Steel Com- 

 pany's Works, 97 ; analysis of iron 

 ores used at, 106; experiments on the 

 transverse strain of steel from, 107, 

 122, 144 ; experiments on the tensile 

 strain of steel from, 123, 131, 145 ; 

 experiments on the compression strain 

 of steel from, 1-32, 140, 145 ; experi- 

 ment on a steel girder from the, 140. 



Bate (C. Spence) on the marine flora 

 and fauna of the south coast of Devon 

 and Cornwall, 84. 



