CONTENTS. 



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 Objects and Rules of the Association xxvi 



Places and Times of Meeting and Officers from commencement xxxvi 



Presidents and Secretaries of the Sections of the Association from com- 

 mencement xliv 



List of Evening Lectures lix 



Lectures to the Operative Glasses Ixii 



Officers of Sectional Committees present at the Bath Meeting Ixiii 



Officers and Council, 1888-89 Ixv 



Treasurer's Account Ixvi 



Table showing the Attendance and Receipts at the Annual Meetings Ixviii 



Report of the Council to the Oeneral Committee Ixx 



Committees appointed by the General Committee at the Bath Meeting in 



September 1888 Ixxiii 



Synopsis of Grants of Money Ixxxii 



Places of Meeting in 1889 and 1890 Ixxxiii 



General Statement of Sums which have been paid on account of Grants 



for Scientific Purposes Ixxxiv 



Arrangement of the General Meetings xcvi 



Address by the President, Sir Frederick Bramweli,' D.C.L., F.R.S., 

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EEPORTS ON THE STATE OF SCIENCE. 



Fourth Report of the Committee, consisting of Professors A. Johnson (Secre- 

 tary), J. G. MacGeegor, J. B. Cherriman, and H. T. BovEr and Mr. C. 

 Carpmael, appointed for the purpose of promoting Tidal Observations in 

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Report of the Committee, consisting of Sir R. S. Bail, Dr. G. Johnstone 

 Stonet, Professors Everett, Fitzgerald, Hicks, Caret Foster, 0. J. 

 Lodge, Potnting, Macgeegor, Genese, W. G. Adams, and Lamb, Messrs. 

 Batnes, a. Lodge, Fleming, AV. N. Shaw, Glazebrook, Hatward, 

 Lant Carpenter, Culyerwell (Secretary), and Greenhill, Dr. Muir, 

 and Messrs. G. Griffith and J. Larmor, appoiafted for the purpose of con- 

 sidering the desirability of introducing a Uniform Nomenclature for the 

 Fundamental Units of Mechanics, and of co-operating with other bodies 



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