CONTENTS. 



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Objects and Rules of the Association v 



Officers and Council vii 



Places of Meeting and Officers from commencement viii 



Table of Council from commencement ix 



Officers of Sectional Committees, and Corresponding Members .... xi 



Treasurer's Account xii 



Reports, Researches, and Desiderata xiv 



Recommendations for Additional Reports and Researches in Science xix 



Synopsis of Money Grants xxiv 



Arrangements of the General Evening Meetings - . . . . xxv 



Address of the President xxvii 



REPORTS OF RESEARCHES IN SCIENCE. 



On the Present State of our Theoretical and Experimental Knowledge 

 of the Laws of Conduction of Heat. By the Rev. Philip Kelland, 

 M.A., F.R.SS. Lond. and Edin., Professor of Mathematics in the Uni- 

 versity of Edinburgh, late Fellow of Queen's College, Cambridge . . 1 



Report on Poisons. By G. L. Roupell, M.D., F.R.S 26 



Report on Discussions of Bristol Tides, performed by Mr. Bunt under 

 the direction of the Rev. W. Whewell, F.R.S 30 



Report on the Discussion of Leith Tide Observations, executed by 

 Mr. D. Ross, of the Hydrographer's Office, Admiralty, under the 

 direction of the Rev. W. Whewell 33 



Upon the working of Whewell's Anemometer at Plymouth during the 

 past year. By W. S. Harris, Esq., F.R.S 36 



Report of a Committee, consisting of Sir J. F. W. Herschel, Bart., 

 Mr. Whewell, the Very Rev. the Dean of Ely, Professor Lloyd, 

 and Lieut.-Colonel Sabine, appointed for the purpose of superintend- 

 ing the scientific co-operation of the British Association in the 

 system of Simultaneous Observations in Terrestrial Magnetism and 

 Meteorology 38 



Reports of Committees appointed to provide Meteorological Instruments 

 for the use of M. Agassiz and Mr. M'Cord 41 



Report of a Committee, consisting of Sir J. Herschel only, to super- 

 intend the reduction of Meteorological Observations.— July 1841 . , 42 



