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INDEX I. 
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REPORTS ON THE STATE OF SCIENCE. 
Rules and objects of the Associa¬ 
tion, v. 
Officers and Council, viii. 
Desiderata, xiii. 
Address of Sir William Hamilton, xli. 
Synopsis of sums appropriated to sci¬ 
entific objects, xl. 
iEpinian theories of electricity and gal¬ 
vanism, 2, 10. 
Airy (Prof.), desiderata noticed in his 
report on astronomy, xvi. 
Arts, resolutions of the Committee for 
the, xxxii. 
Astronomy, resolutions of the Com¬ 
mittee for, xv. 
Aurora borealis, directions for ob¬ 
serving the, xxxv. 
> Baily (F.) on the comparative mea¬ 
surement of the Aberdeen standard 
scale, 91. 
Barlow (Prof.), desideratum noticed in 
his report on the strength of mate¬ 
rials, xxxii. 
Chemical notation, report of the Com¬ 
mittee on, 207. 
Chemistry, resolutions of the Commit¬ 
tee for, xxiii. 
Christie (Prof.), desiderata noticed in 
his report on magnetism, xxi. 
Constants of nature and art, proposed 
new work on, xxxix. 
Conybeare (Rev. W. D.), desiderata 
noticed in his report on geology, 
xxviii. 
Coulombian theories of electricity and 
galvanism, 2, 10. 
Dublin Sub-committee, report on the 
motions and sounds of the heart,243. 
Edinburgh Sub-committee, report on 
the registration of deaths, 251. 
Electricity, on the recent progress and 
present state of, 2. 
Falling stars, mode of observing, xxxviii. 
Forbes (Prof.), desiderata noticed in 
his report on meteorology, xix. 
Fourier’s theory of heat, 18. 
Geology, resolutions of the Committee 
for, xxvi. 
Gray (W.) on the quantities of rain 
falling at different elevations at York, 
171. 
Hamilton’s (Sir W.) address, xli. 
Hansteen (Prof.), researches in mag¬ 
netism, 61. 
Harris (W. S.) on the hourly observa¬ 
tions of the thermometer, 181. 
Heart, on the motions and sounds of 
the, 243. 
Heat, on the recent progress and pre¬ 
sent state of the theory of, 1. 
-, on the conduction of, 17. 
——, on the radiation of, 17, 163. 
Hodgkin (Dr.) on the effects of acrid 
poisons, 211. 
Hodgkinson (E.) on impact upon 
beams, 93. 
Hudson (Dr.) on the phenomena usu¬ 
ally referred to the radiation of heat, 
163. 
Infraorbital cavities in deers and an¬ 
telopes, on the, 208. 
Impact upon beams, 93. 
Ireland, magnetical observations in, 
159. 
Jacob (Prof.) on the infraorbital cavi¬ 
ties in deers and antelopes, 208. 
