CONTENTS. 



Page 

 Objects and Rules of the Association xxv 



Places and Times of Meeting and Officers from commencement xxxii 



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

 mencement xxxix 



Evening Lectvu*es lii 



Lectures to the Operative Classes liv 



Officers of Sectional Committees present at the York Meeting ly 



Treasurer's Account , Ivii 



Table showing the Attendance and Receipts at Annual Meetings Iviii 



Officers and Council, 1881-82 Ix 



Report of the Council to the General Committee Ixi 



Recommendations of the General Committee for Additional Reports and 

 Researches in Science Ixiii 



Synopsis of Money Grants ]xx 



Places of Meeting in 1882 and 1883 Ixxi 



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

 for Scientific Purposes Ixxii 



Arrangement of the General Meetings Ixxxii 



Address bv the President, Sir John Lubbock, Bart., M.P., F.R.S., D.C.L., 

 LL.D., Pres. L.S 1 



EEPORTS ON THE STATE OF SCIENCE. 



Report of the Committee, consisting of Professor Sylvester, Professor (5at- 

 LEY, and Professor Salmon, for the calculation of Tables of the Fundamental 

 Invariants of Algebraic Forms 55 



Rt^port on Recent Progress in Hydrodynamics. — Part I. By W. M. Hicks, 

 M.A : 57 



Report of the Committee, consisting of Sir William Thomson, Professor 

 RoscoE, Dr. J. H. Gladstone, and Br. Schuster (Secretary), appointed 

 for the purpose of collecting information vyith regard to Meteoric Dust, and 

 to consider the question of uudertakiDg regular observations in various 



localities ". 88 



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