INDEX. 



lAn astei-isk {*"). signifies that no abstract of the communication is given.'] 



OBJECTS and rules of the Association, 

 xxi. 



Places aiid 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, li. 



Officers of Sectional Committees present 

 at Soutliamjaton, lii. 



Table showing the attendance and re- 

 ceipts at the annual meetings, liv. 



Treasurer's account, Ivi. 



Officers and Council for 1882-83, Ivii. 



Keport of the Council to the General 

 Committee at Southampton, Iviii. 



Eecommeiidations adopted by the General 

 Committee at Southamjiton : — Involv- 

 ing grants of money, Ix ; not involving 

 grants of money, Ixiii ; communications 

 ordered to be printed in extenso, Ixv ; 

 resolutions referred to the Council for 

 consideration, and action if desirable, i J. 



Synopsis of grants of money appropriated 

 to scientitic purposes, Ixvi. 



Places of meeting for 1883 and 188-1, 

 Ixvii. 



General statement of sums which have 

 been paid on account of grants for 

 scientitic purposes, Ixviii. 



General meetings, Ixxviii. 



Address by the President, C. W. Siemens, 

 Esq., D.C.L., LL.D., F.R.S., &c., 1. 



Abel (F. A.) on patent legislation, 310 ; on 

 the legal flashing test for petroleum, 

 486. 



Abernethy (J.), improved continental 

 communication, 665. 



Abney (Capt.) on fixing a standard of 

 white light, 38 ; on meteoric dust, 90 ; 

 on the i:)resent state of our knowledge 

 of spectrum analysis, 120; on the pre- 

 paration of a new series of tables of 

 wave-lengths of the spectra of the 

 elements, 144 ; sun light and sky light 

 at high altitudes, 459. 



Abney (Capt.) and Prof. Schuster, pre- 

 liminary account of results obtained 

 during the late total solar eclipse 

 (May 17, 1882), 441. 



Aborigines of the fiiver Darhng, New 

 South Wales, some customs of the, 

 F. Bonney on, 607. 



Absolute measurement of electric cur- 

 rents, Prof. Lord Kayleigh on the, 445. 



Absorption of radiant heat by gases, a 

 method of investigating the, experi- 

 mentally. Prof. Tait on, 475. 



Ace (Kev. Dr.), statistical account of 

 railway accidents for the year 1881, 630. 



Adams (Prof. A. Leith) on explorations 

 in caves of carboniferous limestone in 

 the South of L-eland, 240. 



Adams (Prof. AV. G.) on fixing a standard 

 of white light, 38 ; on standards for 

 use in electrical measurements, 70. 



*Aerial vibration, an instrument for 

 measuring the intensity of. Prof. Lord 

 Eayleigh on, 477. 



Aerorthometer, the, an instrument for 

 correcting the measure of a gas, by A. 

 V. Harcourt, 499. 



Africa, Eastern Equatorial, the Koyal 

 Geographical Society's Map of, E. G. 

 Eavenstein on, 623. 



Agricultural statistics, tenure, and aspects, 

 by W. Botly, 631. 



Alcohol, the taxation of, S. Bourneon, 637. 



, , the revenue from, G. B. Powell 



on, 636. 



Allman (Prof.) on the Scottish zoological 

 station, 282 ; on the occupation of a 

 table at the zoological station at 

 Naples, 288. 



Alpine post-carboniferous (dyassic) and 

 triassic geology, notes on, by Eev. A. 

 Irving, 551. 



Aluminium, the mechanical properties 

 of, W. H. Barlow on, 668. 



Ammonia from shoddy and allied sub- 

 stances, a method of obtaining, W. 

 Marriott on, 500. 



Angell (Dr. A.) on the brown colouration 

 of the Southampton water, 589. 



