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 rt XXXV 



Evening Lectures xlviii 



Lectures to the Operative Classes 1 



Officers of Sectional Committees present at the Swansea Meeting li 



Treasurer's Account liii 



Table showing the Attendance and Receipts at Annual Meetings liv 



Officers and Coimcil, 1880-81 hi 



Report of the Coimcil to the General Committee Ivii 



Recommendations of the General Committee for Additional Reports and 

 Researches in Science Ix 



Synopsis of Money Grants Ixvi 



Places of Meeting in 1881 and 1882 Lxvii 



General Statement of Sums paid on account of Grants for Scientific 

 Purposes Ixviii 



An-angement of the General Meetings Ixxvii 



Address by the President, Andrew CROMBrE Ramsat, Esq., LL.D., F.R.S., 

 V.P.G.S., Director-General of the Geological Survey of the United King- 

 dom, and of the Museum of Practical Geology 1 



REPORTS ON THE STATE OF SCIENCE. 



Heport of the Committee, consisting of Professor Sir Whliam Thomson, Pro- 

 fessor Tait, Professor Grant, Dr. Siemens, Professor Ptjrseb, Professor G. 

 Forbes, Mr. Horace Darwin, and Mr. G. H. Darwin (Secretary), ap- 

 pointed for the Measurement of the Lunar Disturbance of Gravity 25 



Thirteenth Report of the Committee, consisting of Professor Everett, Pro- 

 fessor Sir William Thomson, Mr. G. J. Symons, Professor Ramsat, Pro- 

 fessor Geieie, Mr. J. Glaisheb, Mr. Pensellt, Professor Edward Hull, 

 Dr. Clement Le Neve Foster, Professor A. S. Hebschel, Professor G, A. 



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