INDEX. 



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OBJECTS and rules of the Association, 

 xxviii. 



Places and times of meeting, with names 

 of officers, from commencement, xxxviii. 



liist of former Presidents and Secretaries 

 of Sections, xlvii. 



List of evening lectures, Ixiii. 



Lectures to the Operative Classes, Ixvi. 



Officers of Sectional Committees present 

 at Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Ixvii. 



Officers and Council for 1888-89, Ixix. 



Treasurer's account, Ixx. ; 



Table showing the attendance and re- 

 ceipts at the annual meetings, Ixxii. 



Report of the Council to the General 

 Committee at Newcastle-upon-Tyne, 

 Ixxiv. 



Committees appointed by the General 

 Committee at Bath : 1. receiving grants 

 of money, Ixxvii ; 2. notreceivinggrants 

 of money, Ixxxii; other resolutions 

 adopted, Ixxxv ; communications or- 

 dered to be printed in exteiiso, ib. ; 

 resolutions referred to the Council for 

 consideration, and action if desirable.iJ. 



SjTiopsis of grants of money appropriated 

 to scientific purposes, Ixxxvi. 



Places of meeting in 1 890 and 189 1 ,lxxxvii. 



General statement of sums wliich have 

 been paid on account of grants for 

 scientific purposes, Ixxxviii. 



General meetings, c. 



Address by the President, Prof. W. H. 

 Flower, C.B., LL.D., F.R.S., 1 



Abbe (Prof. C), the determination of the 

 amount of rainfall, 508. 



Abel (Sir F.) on the best method of es- 

 tablishing international standards for 

 the analysis of iron and steel, 50. 



Abercromby (Hon. Ii.) on the collection 

 and identification of meteoric dust, 

 34 ; on arranging an investigation of 

 the seasonal variations of temperature 



in lakes, rivers, and estuaries, 44 ; on 

 meteorological observations on Ben 

 Nevis, 315. 



Abney (Capt. W. de W.) on the best 

 methods of recording the direct in- 

 tensity of solar radiation, 40 ; on the 

 action of light on the hydracids of the 

 halogens in presence of oxygen, 59 ; 

 on electrolysis in its physical and 

 chemical bearings, 223 ; on the absorp- 

 tion spectra of pure compounds, 227 ; 

 Address to the Mathematical and Phy- 

 sical Section by, 481 ; on the quantity 

 of deposit of silver produced by the 

 development on a photographic plate in 

 terms of the intensity of light acting, 

 493. 



Absorption spectra of pure compounds, 

 report on the, 227. 



Acquired characters, discussion on : •on 

 the supposed transmission of acquired 

 characters, by E. B. Poulton, 620 ; 

 feasible experiments on the possibility 

 of transmitting acquired habits by 

 means of inheritance, by F. Galton,ift. 



, the palffiontological evidence for 



the transmission of, by Prof. H. F. 

 Osborn, 621. 



Acquired habits, feasible experiments 

 on the possibility of transmitting, by 

 means of inheritance, by F. Galton, 

 620. 



Actinometer, a new form of self-regis- 

 tering, by Dr. A. Richardson, 540. 



Action of waves and currents on the beds 

 and foreshores of estuaries, report on 

 the investigation of the, by means of 

 working models, 327. 



Adams (Prof. W. G.) on standards for use 

 in electrical measurements, 41 ; on the 

 best means of comparing and reducing 

 magnetic observations, 49. 



Africa, Austral, Portuguese explorations 

 in, (luring the nineteenth century, by 

 J. Batalha-Reis, 6t)3. 



, South, the tribes of, by Rev. J, 



Macdonald, 795. 



