INDEX I. 



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REPORTS ON THE STATE OF SCIENCE. 



OBJECTS and rules of the Association, 

 xvii. 



Places and times of meeting, with names 

 of officers from commencement, xx. 



Treasurer's account, xxiii. 



Members of Council from commence- 

 ment, xxiii. 



Officers and Council for 1859-60, xxvi. 



Officers of Sectional Committees, xxvii. 



Corresponding Members, xxviii. 



Report of Council to General Committee 

 at Aberdeen, xxviii. 



Report of Kew Committee, 1858-59, xl. 



Accounts of Kew Committee, xliv. 



Report of Parliamentary Committee, xlv. 



Recommendations adopted by General 

 Committee at Aberdeen : — involving 

 grants of money, xlix ; applications for 

 reports and researches, 1 ; applications 

 to Government or public institutions, 

 li ; communications to be printed entire 

 among the Reports, ib. 



Synopsis of grants of money appropriated 

 to scientific objects, lii. 



General statement of sums which have 

 been paid on account of grants for 

 scientific purposes, liii. 



Extracts from resolutions of the General 

 Committee, lvii. 



Arrangement of General Meetings, lvii. 



Address by His Royal Highness the 

 Prince Consort, lix. 



Aberdeen industrial feeding schools, on 



the, 44. 

 Air, lunar influence on the temperature 

 ■ of the, 193. 

 Auomodontia, on the order, 161. 



Atherton (Charles) on mercantile steam 

 transport economy as affected by the 

 consumption of coals, 124. 



Balloon committee, report of the pro- 

 ceedings of the, of the British Associa- 

 tion appointed at the Meeting at 

 Leeds, 289. 



Batrachia, on the order, 166. 



Belfast dredging committee for 1859, 116. 



Breaks for railway trains, on, 76. 



Buckman (Professor), report on the 

 growth of plants in the garden of the 

 Royal Agricultural College, Cirences- 

 ter, 22. 



Cayley (A.), report on the progress in the 

 solution of certain special problems in 

 dynamics, 310. 



Chambers (C), supplementary notes to 

 Mr. Crookes's description of the wax- 

 paper photographic process for photo- 

 meteographic registration at the Rad- 

 cliffe observatory, 220. 



Chelonia, on the order, 166. 



Chemistry, organic, on the recent pro- 

 gress and present state of, 1. 



Coals, on mercantile steam transport 

 economy as affected by the consump- 

 tion of, 124. 



Conglomerate, magnesian, from Down- 

 hill, 69. 



Congruences, theory of, 230. 



Crocodilia, on the order, 164. 



Crookes (W.), description of the wax- 

 paper photographic process employed 

 for the photometeorographic registra- 

 tions at the Radcliffe observatory, 206. 



