CONTENTS. 



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 Objects and Rules of the Association xxi 



Places and Times of Meeting and Officers from commencement xxviii 



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

 mencement » xxxv 



Evening Lectures xlviii 



Lectures to the Operative Classes 1 



Officers of Sectional Committees present at the Sheffield Meeting li 



Treasurer's Account liii 



Tahle showing the Attendance and Eeceipts at Annual Meetings liv 



Officers and Council, 1879-80 Ivi 



Report of the Council to the General Committee lvii 



Appendix I. — Correspondence with the Treasury about the Natural History 



Collections hx 



Appendix II. — Report of the Patent Law Committee lxiii 



Recommendations of the General Committee for Additional Reports and 

 Researches in Science lxix 



Synopsis of Money Grants Ixxv 



Places of Meeting in 1880 and 1881 lxxvi 



•General Statement of Sums paid on account of Grants for Scientific 



Purposes lxxvii 



Arrangement of the General Meetings lxxxvi 



Address by the President, Professor G. J. Allman, M.D., LL.D., F.R.SS. 

 L. and E., M.R.I.A., Pres. L.S 1 



REPORTS ON THE STATE OF SCIENCE. 



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

 fessor Clerk Maxwell, Professor Tait, Dr. C. W. Siemens, Mr. _ F. J. 

 Bramwell, and Mi-. J. T. Bottomlet, for commencing Secular Experiments 



upon the Elasticity of Wires. Drawn up by J. T. Bottomlet 33 



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