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CONTENTS. 



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Objects and Rules of the Association xvii 



Places of Meeting and Officers from commencement xx 



Treasurer's Account xxiii 



Table of Council from commencement xxiii 



Officers and Council xxvi 



Officers of Sectional Committees xxvii 



Corresponding Members xxviii 



Report of the Council to the General Committee xxviii 



Report of the Kew Committee xl 



Report of the Parliamentary Committee xlv 



Recommendations for Additional Reports and Researches in Science xlix 



Synopsis of Money Grants , Hi 



General Statement of Sums paid for Scientific Purposes liii 



Extracts from Resolutions of the General Committee lvii 



Arrangement of the General Meetings lvii 



Address of the President lix 



REPORTS OF RESEARCHES IN SCIENCE. 



Preliminary Report on the Recent Progress and Present State of 

 Organic Chemistry. By George C. Foster, B.A., F.C.S., Late As- 

 sistant in the Laboratory of University College, London 1 



Report on the Growth of Plants in the Garden of the Royal Agricul- 

 tural College, Cirencester. By James Buckman, F.S.A., F.L.S., 

 F.G.S. &c, Professor of Natural History, Royal Agricultural College 22 



Report on Field Experiments and Laboratory Researches on the Con- 

 stituents of Manures essential to cultivated Crops. By Dr. Augustus 

 Voelcker, Royal Agricultural College, Cirencester 31 



Report on the Aberdeen Industrial Feeding Schools. By Alexander 



Thomson, Esq., of Banchory 44 



On the Upper Silurians of Lesmahago, Lanarkshire 63 



Report on the Results obtained by the Mechanico-Chemical Examina- 

 tion of Rocks and Minerals. By Alphonse Gages, M.R.I.A., Cu- 

 rator of the Museum of Irish Industry 65 



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