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REPORT OF THE SIXTY-SIXTH MEETING, at Liverpool, Septem- 

 ber, 1896, Published at £1 is. 



CONTENTS. 



PAGB 



Kules of the Association, Lists of Officers, Grants of Money, &c. . .xxvii.-cxii. 



Address by the President, Sir Joseph Lister 3 



Keport of the Corresponding Societies Committee 31 



Preliminary Report on the Calculation of the G (r, v)-lntegrals .... 70 



Keport on the Establishment of a National Physical Laboratory ... 82 



Report on the Uniformity of Size of Pages of Scientific Societies' Publications 86 



Report on the Comparison of Magnetic Instruments 87 



Report on the Calculation of certain Mathematical Functions .... 98 



Report on Electrical Standards 150 



Report on Meteorological Observations on Ben Nevis . . . . . . 166 



Sixth Report on the Application of Photography to the Elucidation of Meteoro- 

 logical Phenomena 172 



First Report of the Committee on Seismologtcal Investigation .... 180 



Report on Electrolysis and Electro-chemistry 230 



Report on the Comparison and Reduction of Magnetic Observations . . . 231 

 Twelfth Report on the best Methods of Recording the Direct Intensity of Solar 



Radiation 241 



Report on the Bibliography of Spectroscopy 243 



Third Report on the Electrolytic Methods of Quantitative Analysis . . . 244 



First Report on the Carbohydrates of Cereal Straws 262 



Tenth Report on Isomeric Naphthalene Derivatives 265 



