INDEX. 
References to reports and papers printed in extenso are given in Italics. 
An Asterisk * indicates that the title only of the communication is given. 
The mark + indicates the same, but a reference is given to the Journal or Newspaper 
where the paper is published in extenso. 
BJECTS and rules of the Association, 
XXxvii. 
List of Presidents, Vice-Presidents, and 
Local Secretaries, 1831-1897, xxxvilii. 
List of Trustees and General Officers, 
1831-1897, 1. 
List of former Presidents and Secretaries 
of Sections, li. 
List of evening lectures from 1842, lxix. 
Lectures to the Operative Classes, Ixxii. 
Officers of Sections present at Liverpool, 
lxxiii. 
Officers and Council for 1896-97, Ixxv. 
Treasurer’s account, Ixxvi. 
Table showing the attendance and re- 
ceipts at the annual meetings, Ixxvii. 
Report of the Council to the General 
Committee at Liverpool, Ixxx. 
Resolutions passed by the 
Committee at Liverpool : 
(1) Committees receiving grants of 
money, lxxxiv. 
(2) Committees not receiving grants 
of money, lxxxix. 
(3) Papers ordered to be printed in 
extenso, Xciil. 
(4) Resolutions referred to the Coun- 
cil for consideration, and ac- 
tion if desirable, xciv. 
Synopsis of grants of money appropriated 
to scientific purposes in 1896, xcv. 
Places of meeting in 1897, 1898 and 1899, 
xcvi. 
General statement of sums which have 
been paid on account of grants for 
scientific purposes, xcvii. 
General meetings, exii. 
Address by the President, Sir Joseph 
Lister, Bart., D.C.L., Pres. R.S.,3. 
General 
ABBOTT (George) on District Unions of 
Scientific Societies, 33. 
ABERCROMBY (Hon. R.) on meteorvlogieal 
observations on Ben Nevis, 166. 
ABNEY (Capt. W. de W.) on the best 
methods of recording the direct inten- 
sity of solar radiation, 241. 
on mave-length tables of the spectra 
of the elements and compounds, 273. 
on the action of light upon dyed 
colours, 347. 
ABRAM (Dr. J. Hill) and PRosprr H. 
MARSDEN on the detection of lead in 
organic fluids, 990. 
Acetylene, limiting explosive proportions 
of, and detection and measurement of 
the gas in air, Prof. F. Clowes on, 746. 
Aconcagua, a proposed ascent of, A. E. 
Fitzgerald on, 862. 
ADAMS (Prof. W. G.) on practical elec- 
trical standards, 160. 
—— on seismological investigation, 180. 
—— on the comparison and reduction of 
magnetic observations, 231. 
Africa, the climatology of, Fourth re- 
port on, 495. 
—— South, fossil plants from, A. C. 
Seward on some, 807. 
African civilisations, the influence of 
climate and vegetation on, G. F. Scott- 
Elliot on, 856. 
—— Lake fauna, Report on, 484. 
Agriculture, the decay of British; its 
causes and cure, C. Rintoul on, 879. 
z in Greece and Italy, the growth of, 
and its influence on early civilisation, 
Rev. G. Hartwell Jones on, 929. 
Air at different densities, measurements 
of electric currents through, Lord 
Kelvin, Dr. J. T. Bottomley, and Dr. 
Magnus Maclean on, 710. 
Alaska and British Columbia, the border- 
land of, E. Odlum on, 865. 
*Albuca, a new species of (A. prolifera, 
Wils.), Dr. J. Wilson on, 1025. 
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