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REPORT OF THE SIXTY-SEVENTH MEETING, at Toronto, 

 August, 1897, Published at £1 4s. 



CONTENTS. 



TACiE 



Rules of the Association, Lists of Officers, Grants of Money, &c. . xxix.-cxvi. 



Address by the President, Sir John Evans 3 



Eeport of the Corresponding Societies Committee ...... 23 



Report on the State of the Principal Museums in Canada and Newfoundland. 



By Dr. Heney M. Ami fi2 



Report on the Preparation of aNew Series of Wave-length Tables of the Spectra 



of the Elements and Compounds 75 



Interim Report on the Calculation of Tables of certain Mathematical Functions 127 

 Seventh Report on the Application of Photography to the Elucidation of 



Meteorological Phenomena 128 



Second Report on Seismological Investigation 129 



Report on Electrical Standards 206 



Report on Meteorological Observations on Ben Nevis 219 



Report on Electrolysis and Electro-chemistry 227 



The Historical Development of Abelian Functions up ro the time of Eiemann. 



By Harris Hancock 246 



Report on the Action of Light upon Dyed Colours 286 



Report on the Teaching of Science in Elementary Schools .... 287 



Report on Isomeric Naphthalene Derivatives 292 



