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Oxssects and Rules of the Association ........ssseseeseerseeeseeeeeeeenss  XVil 
Places of Meeting and Officers from commencement .........ss+++++e+ XX 
NEMS ECCODNE  S55.50sen conspoceved ager ads cas (rasta snspegcoanss conqes XSL 
Table of Council from commencement ............ssseeeeseseeseecseeeeree XXIV 
RE ULC OURCIL oc ccacdincs 194 d9nccavpac onde xns'pcqGeha¥s ae 7H) dayenesdeane, REVE 
Officers of Sectional Committees ..........ccccsvescceseeeeeceeteccseeseee  XEVIl 
Corresponding Members............+. Mis adinpaaseanysahsankanade aR TELE 
Report of the Council to ies Hear Coninitieg . Senaennt}s aqyhe<tys, 7M 
Report of the Kew Committee ....... cssssccseseseeteceereesectseseestees  XXRIi 
Report of the Parliamentary Committee ......s..seeseeeeeeeecer trent ete XXXvi 
Recommendations for Additional Reports and Reasaialia in Science xxxix 
Pemmmreis of Money Grants oso, nay ie chanad var or snudan beg ot%iqe xed pasbe toys. SHR 
General Statement of Sums paid for Scientific Purposes ..............  xliv 
Extracts from Resolutions of the General Committee ..........000+4.  xlvil 
Arrangement of the General Meetings ......scessseecseeesececeeeessereees Slviil 
Address of the President ..... bbadsaandevadvadsds advseg serdidaccecbetbbworesteds | RUIX 
REPORTS OF RESEARCHES IN SCIENCE. 
Fourth Report upon the Facts and late of Fee Phenomena. 
By Roemer MALiereississ sou sis ddesdtectvived.cadabsadsetees tae dabeccvats A 
_ Report on Observations of Luminous talker, 1857-58. By the Rev. 
Bapewn Powe tt, M.A., F.R.S., F.R.A.S., F.G.S., Savilian Professor 
of Geometry in the University of Oxford .......ccccesee eee ceeeseesseeeeee 137 
On some Points in the Anatomy of the Araneidea, or true Spiders, espe- 
cially on the internal structure of their Spinning Organs. By R. H. 
MRR FRB sth ois ci ds otcti Vavediabels Wliesdddirissbeicteieesiveiasy BSF 
The Patent Laws.—Report of the Committee of the British Association. 
Presented by W. FAIRBAIRN, F.R.S. .........ssseseccssccarssccsccccceeesse 16% 
