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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. 



Treasurer's account, xlvi. 



Officers of Sectional Committees present 

 at Plymouth, xlvii. 



Officers and Council for 1877-78, xlviii. 



Report of Council to the General Com- 

 mittee at Plymouth, xlix. 



Recommendations adopted by the Ge- 

 neral Committee at Plymouth: — in- 

 volving grants of money, li ; applica- 

 tions for reports and researches, liii ; 

 communications ordered to be printed 

 in externa, lv; resolution referred to 

 the Council by the General Com- 

 mittee, lvi. 



Synopsis of grants of money appropriated 

 to scientific purposes, lvii. 



General statement of sums which have 

 been paid on accoimt of grants for 

 scientific purposes, lix. 



General Meetings, lxvii. 



Address by the President, Prof. Allen 

 Thomson, M.D., LL.D., F.R.S., 

 F.R.S.E., lxviii. 



Aberdare (Lord) on the work of the 

 Anthropometric Committee, 231. 



Allen (A. II.) on the estimation of 

 potash and phosphoric acid, 9 ; 26. 



Ansted (Prof.) on underground tempe- 

 rature, 194. 



Anthropometric Committee, report of 

 the, 231. 



Balfour (F. M.) on the zoological station 



at Naples, 228. 

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



of establishing a "close time " for the 



protection of indigenous animals, 

 207. 



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

 knowledge of the Crustacea, 36 ; on 

 the possibility of establishing a " close 

 time " for the protection of indigenous 

 animals, 207. 



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

 thropometric Committee, 231. 



Bottomley (J. T.) on the effect of pro- 

 pellers on the steering of vessels, 200. 



Brooke (C.) on observations of luminous 

 meteors during the year 1876-77, 98. 



Busk (Prof. G.) on the exploration of 

 Kent's Cavern, 1 ; on the exploration 

 of the Settle Caves (Victoria Cave), 

 215 ; on the remains found therein, 

 217. 



Carpenter (Dr.) on the zoological sta- 

 tion at Naples, 228. 



Circulation of the underground waters in 

 the New Red Sandstone and Permian 

 formations of England, and the quan- 

 tity and character of the water sup- 

 plied to A r arious towns and districts 

 from these formations, third report 

 of the Committee for investigating 

 the, including report on the South- 

 Lancashire wells, by T. M. Reade, 

 56. 



u Close time " for the protection of indi- 

 genous animals, report of the com- 

 mittee appointed to inquire into the 

 possibility of establishing a, 207. 



CoDalt, some double compounds of nickel 

 and, report on, 209. 



Crosskey (Rev. H. W.) on the circula- 

 tion of underground waters, 56; on 

 the erratic blocks of England, Wales, 

 and Ireland, 81 ; on the exploration 

 of the Settle Caves (Victoria Cave), 

 215. 



Crustacea, C. S. Bate on the present 

 state of our knowledge of the, 36. 



Datum level of the Ordnance Survey of 



