CONTENTS. 



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 Objects and Rules of the Association xxi 



Places of Meeting and Officers from commencement xxviii 



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

 mencement XXXV 



Evening Lectures xlvii 



Lectures to the Operative Classes xlix 



Table showing the Attendance and Receipts at Annual Meetings 1 



Treasurer's Account Hi 



Officers of Sectional Committees present at the Dublin Meeting liii 



Officers and Council, 1878-79 lv 



Report of the Council to the General Committee lvi 



Recommendations of the General Committee for Additional Reports and 

 Researches in Science lviii 



Synopsis of Money Grants lxiv 



Places of Meeting in 1879 and 1880 lxv 



General Statement of Sums paid on account of Grants for Scientific 

 purposes Ixvi 



Arrangement of the General Meetings lxxv 



Address by the President, William Spottiswoode, Esq., M.A., D.O.L., 

 LL.D., F.R.S., F.R.A.S., F.R.G.S 1 



REPORTS ON THE STATE OF SCIENCE. 



Catalogue of the Oscillation-frequencies of Solar Rays ; drawn up under the 

 superintendence of a Committee of the British Association, consisting of 

 Dr. Huggins (Chairman), Dr. De La Rue, Mr. J. Norman Lockver, Dr. 

 J. Emerson Reynolds, Mr. Spottiswoode, Dr. W. Marshall Watts, 



and Mr. G. Johnstone Stoney (Reporter) 87 



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