INDEX I. 
TO 
REPORTS ON THE STATE OF SCIENCE, 
QpsEcTS and rules of the Association, 
Xvii. 
Places and times of meeting, with names 
of officers, from commencement, xxiv. 
List of former Presidents and Secretaries 
of the Sections, xxx. 
List of evening lectures, xl. 
Lectures to the Operative Classes, xii. 
Treasurer’s account, xliii. 
Table showing the attendance and re- 
ceipts at the Annual Meetings, xliy. 
Officers of Sectional Committees, xlvi. 
Officers and Council for 1874-75, xlvii. 
Report of Council to the General Com- 
mnittee at Belfast, xlviii. 
Recommendations adopted by the Ge- 
neral Committee at Belfast :—invol- 
ving ah of money, li; applica- 
tions for reports and researches, liii; 
communications to be*printed 7m ex- 
tenso, lv; resolutions referred to the 
Council by the General Committee, ly. 
Synopsis of grants of money appropriated 
to scientific purposes, lvi. 
General statement of sums which have 
been paid on account of grants for 
scientific purposes, lyiii. 
Arrangement of General Meetings, Ixy. 
Address by the President, Prof. John 
Tyndall, D.C.L., LL.D., F.R.S., Ixvi. 
Abel (F. A.) on Mr. Siemens’s pyro- 
meter, 242. 
Adams (Prof. W. G.) on the teaching 
of physics in schools, 71; on the se- 
lection and nomenclature of dynami- 
cal and electrical units, 255. 
Adderley (Rt. Hon. Sir C. B.) on the 
best means of providing for a uni- 
formity of weights and measures, with 
reference to the interests of science, 
359, 
1874, 
Anthropological notes and queries for 
the use of travellers published by the 
committee, report on the, 214. 
Armstrong (Dr.) on isomeric cresols and 
their derivatives, 73. 
(Sir W.) on the best means of 
providing for a uniformity of weights 
and measures, with reference to the 
interests of science, 559. 
Barnes (Rev. H. F.) on the possibility 
of establishing a ‘close time” for 
_ the protection of indigenous animals, 
264. 
Barrett (Prof, W. F.) on the teaching of 
physics in schools, 71. 
Bateman (J. F.) on the rainfall of the 
British Isles for the years 1873-74, 
75 
Beddoe (Dr.) on anthropological notes 
and queries for the use of travellers, 
2 
Behrens (J.) on the economic effects of 
combinations of labourers and capi- 
talists, 266. 
Belfast Harbour, T. R. Salmond on the, 
118. 
Bentham (G.) on the recent progress 
and present state of systematic botany, 
Berthon (Rey. E. L.) on instruments 
for measuring the speed of ships, 255. 
Botany, systematic, G. Bentham on the 
recent progress and present state of, 
27 
Boycott (Dr.) on the method of making 
gold-assays, and of stating the results 
thereof, 127. 
Brabrook (E. W.) on anthropological 
notes and queries for the use of tra- 
vellers, 214. 
Brady (G. 8.) on dredging on the coasts 
Eis. 
