CONTENTS. 



Pago 

 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 li 



Officers of Sectional Committees present at the Southampton Meeting lii 



Table showing the Attendance and Receipts- at. Annual Meetings liv 



Treasurer's Account hi 



Officers and Council, 1882-83 Ivii 



Report of the Council to the General Committee hiii 



Recommendations of the General Committee for Additional Reports and 

 Researches in Science Ix 



Synopsis of Money Grants Ixvi 



Places of Meeting in 1883 and 1884 Ixvii 



General Statement of Sums which have been paid on account of Grants 

 for Scientific Purposes Lwiii 



Arrangement of the General Meetings Ixx^iii 



Address by the President, 0. William Siemexs, Esq., D.C.L. (Oxon.), 

 LL.D. (Glasc. & Dubl.), Ph.D., F.R.S., F.C.S., Memb. Inst. C.E 1 



EEPOETS ON THE STATE OF SCIENCE. 



Report of the Committee, consisting of Professor Sylvester, Professor 

 Catley, and the Rev. Geoege Salmon, D.D., appointed in connection with 

 the Calculation of Tables of Fundamental Invariants of Binary Quantics ... 37 



Report (provisional) of the Committee, consisting of Mr. Robert H. Scott 

 (Secretary), Mr. J. Norman Lockter, Professor H. J. S. Smith, Professor 

 G. G. Stokes, Professor Baleotjr Stewart, and Mr. G. J. Symons, ap- 

 pointed for the purpose of co-operating with the Meteorological Society of 

 the Mauritius in their proposed publication of Daily Synoptic Charts of" the 

 Indian Ocean from the year 1861 ! 38 



Report of the Committee, consisting of Captain Abney (Secretary), Professor 

 W. G. Adams, Professor G. C. Foster. Professor Lord Rayleigh, Mr. 



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