INDEX. 



[4« astm-ish (*) signifies that no abstract of tlie communication is ffiren.'\ 



OBJECTS and rules of the Association, 

 xxi. 



Places and times of meeting, with names 

 of officers from commencement, xxviii. 



List of former Presidents and Secretaries 

 of the Sections, xxxv. 



List of evening lectures, xlviii. 



Lectures to the Operative Classes, 1. 



Officers of Sectional Committees present 

 at Swansea, li. 



Treasurer's account, liii. 



Table showing the attendance and re- 

 ceipts at the annual meetings, liv. 



Officers and Coimcil for 1880-81, Ivi. 



Report of the Council to the General 

 Committee at Swansea, Ivii. 



Recommendations adopted by the General 

 Committee at Swansea : — Involving 

 grants of money, Ix. ; not involving 

 grants of money, Ixiii. ; communica- 

 tions ordered to be printed in extenso, 

 Ixv. 



Synopsis of grants of money appropriated 

 to scientific purposes, Ixvi. 



Places of meeting for 1881 and 1882, 

 Ixvii. 



General statement of sums which have 

 been paid on account of grants for 

 scientific purposes, Ixviii. 



General meetings, Ixxvii. 



Address by the President, A. C. Ramsay, 

 Esq., LL.D., F.R.S., V.P.G.S., Director- 

 General of the Geological Survey of 

 the United Kingdom, and of the 

 Museum of Practical Geology, 1. 



Abel (Prof.) on patent legislation, 318. 



Abernethy (J.), Address by, to the Me- 

 chanical Section, 688. 



Abney (Capt.) on an investigation for 

 the purpose of fixing a standard of 

 ■white light, 119; on the present state 

 of our knowledge of spectrum analy- 

 sis, 258. 



Ace (Rev. Dr.) on the required amend- 

 ment in the Marriage Laws of the 

 United Kingdom, 672. 



Adams (Prof. A. Leith) on the explora- 



1880. 



tion of the caves of the Soutli of Ire- 

 land, 209. 



Adams (Prof. W. G.) on an investigation 

 for the purpose ot fixing a standard of 

 white light, 119 ; comparison of curves 

 of the declination magnetographs at 

 Kew, Stonyhurst, Coimbra, Lisbon, 

 Vienna and St. Petersburg, 201 ; Ad- 

 dress by, to the Mathematical and 

 Physical Section, 447. 



Admiralty monies and accounts, F. P. 

 Fellows on, 668. 



Africa, South, the stone age in, W. D. 

 Gooch on, 622. 



* , West Central, the results of the 



Portuguese expedition in, Capt. H. 

 Capello and Lieut. R. Ivens on, 659. 



Agricultural education and research, the 

 position of, in this country and on the 

 continent of Europe, J. M. Cameron 

 on, 537. 



Agricultural statistics and the land ques- 

 tion, by W. Botly, 668. 



Alexander (Lieut.-Gen. Sir J. E.) on the 

 preservation of fish and preventing the 

 pollution of rivers, 672. 



Algebraical expansions, of which the 

 fractional series for the cotangent and 

 cosecant are the limiting forms, J. W. 

 L. Glaisher on, 482. 



*Alkaline fermentation of urine, A. S. 

 Lea on the, 644. 



Allen (A. H.) on the specific rotatory 

 power of cane and invert sugar, 541 ; 

 further notes on petroleum spirit and 

 analogous liquids, 547 ; * on the so- 

 called ' normal ' solutions of volumetric 

 analysis, 549. 



Allman (Prof.) on palfeontological and 

 zoological researches in Mexico, 254. 



Anatomy and Physiology, Address by F. 

 M. Balfour to the Department of, 636. 



Ancient settlement found beneath the 

 surface of the peat in the coal-bog 

 near Boho, co. Fermanagh, T. Plunkett 

 on an, 623. 



Anderson (R.) on the necessity for a 

 regular inspection of lightning con- 

 ductors, 471. 



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