OBJECTS and rules of the Association, v.
Places and times of meeting, with Presidents,
Vice-Presidents, and Local Secretaries from
commencement, viii.

Council from commencement, x.
Treasurer's account, xii.

Officers and council, 1846-7, xiv.
Officers of Sectional Committees, xv.
Corresponding members, xvi.

Report of the council to the general com-
mittee, xvi.

Recommendations adopted by the general
committee, involving applications to go-
vernment and public institutions, xix.
Recommendations for reports and researches
not involving grants of money, xix.
Recommendations of special researches in
science, involving grants of money, xx.
Synopsis of grants of money appropriated to
scientific objects, xxi.

General statement of sums which have been
paid on account of grants for scientific
purposes, xxii.

Extracts from resolutions of the general com-
mittee, xxvi.

Arrangement of general evening meetings,
xxvi.

Address by Sir Roderick Impey Murchison,
xxvii.

Actinograph, on the, 31.

Algebraical transcendents, 43.

America, quantity and value of iron, wrought
and unwrought, exported to the United
States of, from 1831 to 1844, 118.
Analysis, on the recent progress of, 34.
Anemometer, on Whewell's, 341.
—, on Osler's, 343.
Anemometry, 340.

Archetype of the vertebrate skeleton, on the,
169.

Atmosphere, mechanical effects of the move-
ment of the, 340.

-, molecular effects of the movement of
the, 346.
Atmospheric waves, on, 119.

Barometer, examination of Mr. Brown's paper
on the oscillations of the, by W. R. Birt,
132.

1846.

Barometer, fall of the, Nov. 8 and 9, 1842,
147.

Barometric observations, discussion of Mr.
Brown's, 140.

Birt (W. R.), third report on atmospheric
waves, 119; addenda, 272.

on Mr. Brown's paper on the oscilla-
tions of the barometer, 132.

discussion of Mr. Brown's barometric
observations, 140.

Blake (J.) on the physiological action of me-
dicines, 27.

Bones, cranial and facial, on the arrange-

ment of the two primary classes of, 324.
Brown (W.) on his paper on the oscillations
of the barometer, by W. R. Birt, 132.

discussion of his barometric observa-
tions, 140.

Clyde, iron vessels being built in the, during
the spring of 1846, 117.

Constants, on the calculation of the Gaussian,
for 1829, 92.

Crocodile, on the arrangement of the skull
bones of the, 283.

Daubeny (Prof.) sixth report on the vitality
of seeds, 20.

Ellis (R. L.) on the recent progress of ana-
lysis (theory of the comparison of tran-
scendentals), 34.

England and Wales, manufacture of pig-iron
in, 1788, 114.

Erman (A.) on the calculation of the Gauss-
ian constants for 1829, 92.

Forchhammer (Prof.) on comparative ana-
lytical researches on sea-water, 90.
France, quantity and value of iron exported
to, from 1831 to 1844, 118.

Gaussian constants, on the calculation of the,
for 1829, 92.

Great Britain, on the progress, present amount,
and probable future condition of the iron
manufacture in, 99.

manufacture of iron in 1796, 114.

-, production of iron in 1806, 1823, 1830,
115; in 1840, 116.

K

cording to their general homologies. See
Tables I. II. and III.

Pachyderm, on the skull bones of a young,
297.

Percy (Dr. John) on the crystalline slags,
351.

Phillips (John) on anemometry, 340.

Plants, influence of light on the growth of, 33.
Porter (G. R.) on the progress, present

amount, and probable future condition of
the iron manufacture in Great Britain, 99.

Railway, estimated quantity of iron required
for the constructing and putting into ope-
ration each mile of, 119.

Schunck (Dr.) on the colouring matters of
madder, 24.

Sea-water, comparative analytical researches
on, 90.

Seeds, on the vitality of, 203; table of expe-
riments, 21.

Skeleton, on the archetype and homologies
of the vertebrate, 169.

Skull of the vertebrate series, on the con-
formity of structure of the, 176.
Skull-bones, classification of, 307.

Slags, on the crystalline, 351.

Steam-vessels, iron, being built in the Clyde
during the spring of 1846, 117.

Stokes (G. G.) on recent researches in hydro-
dynamics, 1.

Strickland (H. E.) sixth report on the vitality
of seeds, 20.

the table-land of, 70.

Acalephæ, on the quasi-osseous system of, 87.
Acid, on the production of nitric, 38.
-, on the nature of lampic, 40.

, on the action of oxalic, upon the dead
tissues of the animal body, 41.
Aden, abstracts of meteorological observations
made at, in 1845, 26.

Africa, on geological phænomena in, 69.

-, on the Shea Butter-tree growing in, 90.
Agassiz (M.) on the fishes of the London clay,

52.

Agriculture, on the rationale of certain prac-
tices employed in, 42.

-, on the extent, causes and remedies of
fungi destructive in, 44.

-, synopsis of a proposal respecting a
physico-geographical survey of the British
islands, particularly in relation to, 72.
Air, on applying atmospheric, to propulsion,

113.

Alder (Joshua) on some new and rare British
species of naked Mollusca, 83.
Alga, allied to Coleochate scutata, on an un-
described, 89.

Algae of the Isle of Wight, on the, 83.
Alison (Dr.) on the medical relief to the pa-
rochial poor of Scotland under the old poor
law, 97.

Analyses, on the use of stating with the results
of, the nature of the methods employed, 42.
Analysis, on the principle of continuity in re-
ference to certain results of, 1.

—, on a gas furnace for organic, 49.
Andes, on new species of humming birds from
the, 79.

Anemometer, on a new, 12.

for measuring the velocity of the wind,
modification of Dr. Whewell's, 111.
Animal body, on the action of oxalic acid upon
the dead tissues of the, 41.
Animals, on an important chemical law in the
nutrition of, 41.

Ansted (Prof.) on the coal of India, 63.

Aquaticæ, 78.

Artesian wells, on Southampton common, on
the, 52.

-, on the applicability of M. Fauvelle's
mode of boring, to the well at Southampton,
and to other wells, 56.
Artesian springs, on a new method of boring
for, 105.

Ascidians, specimens of, discovered in the
links of the chain of the floating bridge at
Itchin, near Southampton, 83.

Atmospheric tube, on a new, 113.

recorder, on an, 17.

Blood's circulation through the liver, on the
cause of the, 93.

Bodies, on the deviation of falling, from the
perpendicular, 2.

Bodmer (Mr.) on long and short stroked
steam-engines, 113.

Bollaert (W.) on the Comanche Indians, 116.
on the Indian tribes of Texas, 117.
Bombay, meteorological observations taken
at Fort George Barracks, in July, August
and September, 1845, 26.

Bonny, on the Africans of the neighbourhood
of, 117.

the year 1845, at Alten, 12.

at Huggate, on, 15.

Australia, on the geological structure of, 68.
Aves constrictipedes, 77.

inconstrictipedes, 78.

Azimuth compass, on a new portable, 25.

Bald (Robert) on the Mushet band, commonly
called the black-band ironstone of the coal-
field of Scotland, 62.

Banks (Dr.) on a new anemometer, 12.
Barometer, on a self-registering, 17.

, on the relations of the semi-diurnal
movements of the, to land and sea breezes, 25.
Beetle, on a specimen of a, found imbedded
in some artificial concrete, 82.

Beke (C. T.) on the physical character of the
table-land of Abessinia, 70.
Belfast, comparison of the periods of the
flowering of plants in the early spring of
1846, in the Botanic Garden of, and the
Jardin des Plantes at Paris, 90.
Belgium, on the mines and mining industry
of, 101.

Bell (Prof.) on the crustacea found by Prof.

E. Forbes and Mr. McAndrew in their
cruises round the coast, 80.
Bennet (Dr. H.) on a peculiar form of ulce-
ration of the cervix uteri, 94.
Bessarabia, on the Nekrasowzers of, 115.
Bethuck Indians of Newfoundland, on a vo-
cabulary of the, 115.

Bevan (Dr.) on applying atmospheric air to
propulsion, 113.

Birds, synopsis of the classification of the ge-
nera of British, 76.

new species of humming, from the
Andes, 79.

-, on the figures of, observed on a tomb
at Memphis, 79.

list of the names of periodical, and the
dates of their appearance and disappear-
ance at Llanrwst, 79.

Birt (W. R.) on atmospheric waves, 35.
Blackwall (John), list of the names of perio-
dical birds, and the dates of their appear-
ance and disappearance, at Llanrwst, 79.
Blake (James) on the connexion between the
isomorphous relations of the elements and
their physiological action, 40.
Blaps mortisaga found imbedded in some
artificial concrete, 82.

on a tomb at Memphis, 79.

Boring for Artesian springs, on a new method
of, 105.

Botanists, directions for the guidance of, in
their excursion to the Isle of Wight, 86.
Botany, 74.

Bracklestone Bay, on the fossils of, 67.
Brewster (Sir David) on a new property of

light exhibited in the action of chrysammate
of potash upon common and polarized light,
7.

Brian (Capt.) on the Africans of the neigh-
bourhood of Bonny, 117.

Bridge, tubular, proposed by Mr. Stephenson

for crossing the Menai Straits, on the, 108.
Brisbane (General Sir T. M.) results of the
magnetic observations made at his obser-
vatory, 32.

Bristol and Taunton, on railway sections made
on the line of the Great Western railway,
between, 59.

British islands, synopsis of a proposal respect-
ing a physico-geographical survey of the,
particularly in relation to agriculture,

72.

Brooke (C.) on the construction of a self-re-

gistering barometer, thermometer, and psy-
chrometer, 17.

Broun (J. A.) on some results of the magnetic

observations made at General Sir T. M.
Brisbane's observatory, 32.
Buckland (Rev. W.) on the applicability of
M. Fauvelle's mode of boring artesian wells
to the well at Southampton, and to other
wells, and to sinkings for coal, salt, and
other mineral beds, 56.

Buckman (James) on the discovery of a new
species of Hypanthocrinite in the upper Si-
lurian strata, 61.

on the age of the Silurian limestone of
Hay Head, near Barr Beacon, in Stafford-
shire, 61.

Bullar (Dr. Joseph) on the identity of certain
electro-magnetic laws, 29.

Butter-tree, on the Shea, growing in Africa, 90.

Calcium, on the extent to which fluoride of,
is soluble in water at 60° F., 38.

Candle, extraordinary appearance in the flame
of a common mould, 49.
Caoutchouc, on vulcanized, 113.
Carpenter (Dr.) on the microscopic character

of shells, and on representing natural hi-
story objects by means of photography, 82.
— on the structure of the Pycnogonideæ,
82.

-on the physiology of the Encephalon, 92.
Causation, magnetic, 33.

Cavendish's experiment respecting the pro-
duction of nitric acid, Dr. Daubeny on, 38.
Cells, on the development of, 90.
Cervix uteri, on a peculiar form of ulceration
of the, 94.

Chemistry, 37.

-, organic, on the application of the prin-
ciples of a natural system of, to the expla-
nation of the phænomena occurring in the
diseased potato tuber, 44.

Childers (Capt. W. W.) meteorological obser-
vations made at St. Helier, Jersey, in the
years 1843 to 1846, 13.
Children, on the mortality of, 100.
Christiana, meteorological observations made
at, in 1845, 12.

Ciliogrades, on the embryogeny of, 87.
Clarke (B.) on the foliage and inflorescence of
the genera Phyllanthus and Xylophylla,

91.

Clarke (Mr.) on increasing to larger dimen-
sions the model tubes for the proposed
Menai bridge, 109.

— on a new atmospheric tube, 113.
Clay, on the fishes of the London, 52.
Clouds, on measuring the height of, 15.
Clupeada, on the natural and economic hi-

story of certain species of the, 79.
Coal-field of Scotland, on the black-band iron-
stone of the, 62.

Coal, on the applicability of M. Fauvelle's
mode to sinkings for, 56.

of India, on the, 63.

of Silesia, on the origin of the, 50.

on the annual consumption of, and the
probable duration of the coal-fields, 105.
Cole (J. F.) meteorological observations made
at Alten, in 1844 and 1845, 12.

observations on the Aurora Borealis
during the year 1845, at Alten, 12.
Coleochate scutata, on an undescribed Alga
allied to, 89.

Compass, on a new portable azimuth, 25.
Connell (Prof.), analysis of the American
mineral nemalite, 39.

on the nature of lampic acid, 40.

Comanche Indians, on the, 116.

vocabulary, on a, 117.

Condenser, on a new multiplying, 31.
Continuity, on the principle of, in reference
to certain results of analysis, 1.

Cooley (W. Desborough) on a physico-geo-
graphical survey of the British islands, par-
ticularly in relation to agriculture, 72.
Corfu, on the natural history of, 84.
Cornwall, on the marine zoology of, 86.

Couch (J.) on the egg purse and embryo of a
species of Myliobatus, 80.

Coregoni, on the natural and economic history

of certain species of the, 79.

Crania of two species of crocodile from Sierra
Leone, on the, 79.

-, on the ethnographical distribution of
round and elongated, 116.

Crime, statistics of, in England and Wales,
for the years 1842, 1843 and 1844, 102.
Criminal courts of India, statistics of the, 95.

and miscellaneous statistical returns of
the Manchester police for the year 1845, 98.
Cristatella mucedo, on the structure of, 88.
Crocodile from Sierra Leone, on the crania of
two species of, 79.

Crowe (J. R.) meteorological observations for
1845, made at Christiana, 12.

Crustacea found by Prof. E. Forbes and Mr.
McAndrew in their cruises round the coast,
on the, 80.
Crystallography, 46.

Cucumber, on the true nature of the tendril
in the, 88.

Cullen (M. General) on the fall of rain on the
coast of Travancore and table-land of
Uttree, 22.

Cumberland, on the fall of rain in the lake
districts of, in 1845, 18.

Cypris, on the occurrence of, in a part of the
tertiary freshwater strata of the Isle of
Wight, 56.

Dale (Mr.) on elliptic polarization, 5.
Daubeny (Dr.) on Cavendish's experiment re-
specting the production of nitric acid, 38.

on the rationale of certain practices em-
ployed in agriculture, 42.

new facts bearing on the chemical
theory of volcanoes, 45.

Davies (H. B.) on the Tasmanians, 117.
Dent (E. J.) on a new portable azimuth com-
pass, 25.
Diarrhoea, diagrams showing the mortality of,
concurrently with progressive increase of
temperature in London, 94.

Dispensaries of India, statistics of the govern-
ment, 96.

Dollond (G.) on an atmospheric recorder, 17.
Duncan (J.) on geological phænomena in
Africa, 69.

Duncan (J. F.) on the Shea butter-tree grow-
ing in Africa, 90.