INDEX. 



[An atterisk (*) signifisx that no abstract of tlie communication is given.'] 



OBJECTS and rules of the Association, 

 xxxi. 



Places and times of meeting, with names 

 of officers, from commencement, xli. 



List of former Presidents and Secretaries 

 of Sections, xlix. 



List of evening lectures, Ixiv. 



Lectures to the Operative Classes, Ixvi. 



Officers of Sectional Committees present 

 at Manchester, Ixviii. 



Treasurer's account, Ixx. 



Table showing the attendance and re- 

 ceipts at the annual meetings, Ixxii. 



Officers and Council for 1887-88, Ixxiv. 



Report of the Council to the General 

 Committee at Manchester, Ixxv. 



Recommendations adopted by the General 

 Committee at Manchester : involving 

 grants of money, Ixxvii ; not involving 

 grants of money, Ixxxii ; communica- 

 tions ordered to be printed in extenso, 

 Ixxxv ; resolution referred to the 

 Council for consideration, and action 

 if desirable, ih. 



Synopsis of grants of money appropriated 

 to scientific purposes, Ixxxvi. 



Places of meeting in 1888 and 1889, 

 Ixxxvii. 



.General statement of sums which have 

 been paid on account of grants for 

 scientific purposes, Ixxxviii. 



General meetings, c. 



Address by the President, Sir Henry E. 

 Roscoe, M.P., D.C.L., LL.D., Ph.D., 

 F.R.S., V.P.C.S., 1 



Abbe (C), the general bibliography of 

 meteorology and terrestrial magnetism, 

 compiled by the Signal Office, Wash- 

 ington, 593. 



Abercromby (Hon. R.) on the different 

 kinds of thunderstorms, and on a 

 scheme for their systematic observa- 

 tion, 597. 



Abney (Capt.) on the best methods of 

 recording the direct intensity of solar 

 radiation, 32 ; on standards of light, 

 47 ; on electrolysis in its physical and 

 chemical bearings, 336. 

 Absorption spectra, the, of rare earths, by 

 Dr. G. H. Bailey, 654. 



of the haloid salts of didymium, 



by Dr. G. H. Bailey, 654. 

 Abt (Dr.) and Dr. Noelting on the con- 

 stitution of the azimido-compounds, 

 642. 

 Acantlwrhiza aculeata, IT. Windl., the 



root-spines of. Prof. McNab on, 744. 

 ♦Acclimatisation, Dr. A. Oppler on, 



799. 

 *Acetic ether, the rate of velocity of 

 formation of. Prof. Menschuthen on, 

 646. 

 Acland (A. H. D.) on the regulation of 

 wages by means of lists in the cotton ' 

 industry, 303. 

 Aconitine, a new process for the prepa- 

 ration of, by J. WiUiams, 665. 

 'Acquired characters, are they here- 

 ditary ? discussion on, 755. 

 ♦Adams (Prof. J. C), some notice of a 

 new computation oJE the Gaussian con- 

 stants, 600. 

 Adams (Prof. W. G.) on standards of 

 light, 47 ; on standards for use in 

 electrical measurements, 206 ; on the 

 best means of comparing and reducing 

 magnetic observations, 320. 

 Agriculture, preventible losses in, by 

 Prof. W. Fream, 834. 



, the future of, by W. Botly, 835. 



Ain Ea'ian, the desert from Dahshur to, 



by Capt. C. Surtees, 801. 

 *Air, apparatus for the examination of, 



by Dr. Ransome, 672. 

 ♦Alaska, South-eastern, Prof. Libbey on, 



804. 

 ♦Alcohol and water combinations, by 



Prof. Mendeleef, 647. 

 Alcoholic liquors, a new and rapid method 

 of testing, Dr. W. Bott on, 660. 



