INDEX I. 



TO 



REPORTS ON THE STATE OF SCIENCE. 



UBJECTS 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, xli. 



Lectures to the Operative Classes, xliii. 



Table showing the attendance and re- 

 ceipts at the Annual Meetings, xliv. 



Treasm-er's account, xlvi. 



Officers of Sectional Committees, xlvii. 



Officers and Council for 1876-77, xlviii. 



Report of Council to the General Com- 

 mittee at Glasgow, xlix. 



Recommendations adopted by the Ge- 

 neral Committee at Glasgow : — invol- 

 ving grants of money, li ; applica- 

 tions for reports and researches, liv ; 

 resolutions referred to the Council by 

 the General Committee, Ivi; com- 

 munications ordered to be printed in 

 extenso, Ivi. 



Synopsis of grants of money appropriated 

 to scientific piu'poses, Ivii. 



General statement of sums which have 

 been paid on account of grants for 

 scientific pui-poses, lix. 



Arrangement of General Meetings, Ixvii. 



Address by the President, Prof. Thomas 

 Andrews, M.D., LL.D., F.R.S., Hon. 

 F.R.S.E., Ixviii. 



Aberdare (Lord) on the work of the 

 Anthropometric Committee, 206. 



Adams (Prof. J. C.) on tidal observa- 

 tions, 275. 



Ansted (Prof) on underground tempe- 

 rature, 204. 



Anthropometric Committee, report of 

 the, 266. 



Association for the improvement of 

 geometrical teaching, report on the 

 syllabus drawn up by the, 8. 



Atkinson (Dr.) on chemical research, -314. 



Barnes (Rev. H. F.) on the possibility 



of establishing a " close time " for the 

 protection of indigenous animals, 03. 



Barry (.1. W.) on the treatment and 

 utilization of sewage, 225. 



Bate (C. S.) on the present state of our 

 knowledge of the Crustacea, 75. 



Bateman (J . F.) on the rainfall of the Bri- 

 tish Isles for the years 1875-76, 172. 



Beddoe (Br.) on the work of the An- 

 thropometric Committee, 260. 



Binney (Mr.) on the circulation of under- 

 ground waters, 95. 



Bramwell (F. J.) on the treatment and 

 utilization of sewage, 225. 



British- Association imits of electiical re- 

 sis tance, results of a comparison of the, 

 by G. Chrystal and S. A. Saunder, 13. 



Isles, report on the rainfall of the, 



for the years 1875-76, 172. 



Brooke (C.) on observations of luminous 

 meteors during the year 1875-76, 119j 

 on the rainfall of the British Isles for 

 the years 1875-70, 172. 



Brough (J.) on earthquakes in Scotland, 

 74. 



Bnmton (Dr.) on intestinal secretion 

 and movement, 308. 



Bryce (Dr.) on earthquakes in Scotland, 

 74. 



Busk (Prof. G.) on the exploration of 

 Kent's Cavern, 1 ; on the exploration 

 of the Settle Caves, 115. 



Cay ley (Prof.) on instruction in elemen- 

 tary geometry, and on the syllabus 

 drawn up by tlie Association for the im- 

 provement of geometrical teaching, 8. 



Chadwick (Mr.) on the practicability of 

 adopting a common measure of value 

 in the assessment of direct taxation, 

 27. _ 



Chemical research, report of the com- 

 mittee for collecting and suggesting 

 subjects for, 314. 



Chrystal (G.) and S. A. Saunder, results 

 of a comparison of the British-Asso- 

 ciation units of electrical resistance, 13. 



