CONTENTS. 



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Objects and Rules of the Association xvii 



Places of Meeting and Officers from commencement xxiv 



Presidents and Secretaries of the Sections of the Association from 



commencement : xxx 



Evening Lectures xli 



Lectures to the Operative Classes xliii 



Table showing the Attendance and Eeceipts at Annual Meetings . . xliv 



Treasurer's Account „ xlvi 



Officers of Sectional Committees present at the Plymouth Meeting . . xlvii 



Officers and Council, 1877-78 xlviii 



Report of the Council to the General Committee xlix 



Recommendations of the General Committee for Additional Reports 



and Researches in Science li 



Synopsis of Money Grants lvii 



Place of Meeting in 1878 lviii 



General Statement of Sums paid on account of Grants for Scientific 



Purposes lix 



Arrangement of the General Meetings lxvii 



Address by the President, Professor Allen Thomson, M.D., LL.D., 



F.R.S., F.R.S.E lxviii 



REPORTS OF RESEARCHES IN SCIENCE. 



Thirteenth Report of the Committee for Exploring Kent's Cavern, Devon- 

 shire — the Committee consisting of John Evans, F.R.S., Sir John 

 Lubbock, Bart., F.R.S., Edward Vivian, M.A., George Busk, F.R.S., 

 Professor Boyd Dawkins, F.R.S., William Ayshfokd Sanford, F.G.S., 

 John Edwakd Lee, F.G.S., and William Pengellt, F.R.S. (Reporter). 

 (Plate I.) 1 



Second Report of a Committee, consisting of E. C. C. Stanford, James 

 Dewae, Alfred E. Fletcher, E. W. Parnell, T. R. Ogilvie, and 

 Alfred H. Allen (Secretary), appointed to inquire into the Methods 

 employed in tho Estimation of Potash and Phosphoric Acid iu Com- 

 mercial Products and the mode of stating the Results. Drawn up 



by Alfred H. Allen 9 



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