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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, xxiv.

Officers and Council for 1857-58, xxvi.
Officers of Sectional Committees, xxvii.
Corresponding members, xxviii.

Report of Council to General Committee
at Dublin, xxviii.

Report of Kew Committee, xxxi.
Accounts of Kew Committee, xxxvii.
Report of Parliamentary Committee,

Xxxviii.

Recommendations adopted by General
Committee at Dublin; involving
grants of money, xxxix; involving
applications to Government or public
institutions, xl; applications for re-
ports and researches, ib.; communica-
tions to be printed entire among the
Reports, xli.

Synopsis of grants of money appropriated
to scientific objects, xli.
General statement of sums paid on ac-
count of grants for scientific purposes,
xlii.
Extracts from resolutions of the General
Committee, xlv.

Arrangement of general meetings, xlvi.
Address by the Rev. Humphrey Lloyd,
D.D., F.R.S., xlvii.

Algebraic couple, on the, 184.
Anderson (Arthur), report on the mea-
surement of ships for tonnage, 62.

Angles, on infinite, 188.

Animal products imported into Liverpool
from 1851-55, 254.

Archer (Prof. T. C.), report on the ani-

mal and vegetable products imported
into Liverpool from 1851-55, 254.
Atherton (Charles), report on the mea-
surement of ships for tonnage, 62;
suggestions for statistical inquiry into
the extent to which mercantile steam
transport economy is affected by the
constructive type of shipping, as
respects the proportions of length,
breadth, and depth, 112.

Barlow (Peter W.) on the mechanical
effect of combining girders and suspen-
sion chains, and a comparison of the
weight of metal in ordinary and sus-
pension girders, to produce equal de-
flections with a given load, 238.
Belfast Bay, mollusca of, 221.
Belfast Dredging Committee, report of the
proceedings of the, 220.

Blackheath, remarkable meteor seen at,
in January 1856, 142.

Boats, life and fishing, on the statistics of,
on the coasts of the United Kingdom,
308.
Bompas (G. C.) on the horary variation
of meteors, 143.

Botanical Garden of the Royal Agricul-
tural College of Cirencester, on the
experimental plots in the, 200.
Bowerbank (J. S.), second report on the
vitality of the Spongiada, 121.
Bridges, on the adaptation of suspen-
sion, to sustain the passage of railway

trains, 154; on the construction of
large span, 238.

Brighton, remarkable meteor seen at, in
January 1856, 141.

Brown (T. C.) on a meteorite which fell

at Cirencester in 1835, 140.
Buckman (James), report on the experi-
mental plots in the Botanical Garden
of the Royal Agricultural College of
Cirencester, 200.

Cayley (A.), report on the recent pro-

gress of theoretical dynamics, 1; me-
moirs and works referred to in the
report, 40.

Chains, on the mechanical effect of com-

bining girders and suspension, 238.
China, colours of shooting stars and
globes observed in, 145.

Cirencester, on the experimental plots in
the Botanical Garden of the Royal
Agricultural College of, 200.

Cornwall, on the temperature of some
deep mines in, 96,

Daubeny (Professor), sixteenth and final
report on the growth and vitality of
seeds, 43.

Dickie (Dr. G.), report on the marine
zoology of Strangford Lough, Co.
Down, and corresponding part of the
Irish Channel, 104.

Dredging Committee, Belfast, report of
the proceedings of the, 220.
Dynamics, theoretical, on the recent pro-
gress of, 1.

Electro-chemistry, on, 158.

England, colours of shooting stars and
globes observed in, from 1841-55, 145.
Equatorial mountings, on the improve-
ment of, 195.

Factorial exponentials, on some trans-
formations of a series of, 101.
Fairbairn (William) on the resistance of
tubes to collapse, 215.
Flax, on, 127.

Forster (T.) on extraordinary coloured
meteors, 153.

Fox (Robert Were) on the temperature

of some deep mines in Cornwall, 96.

Girders and suspension chains, on the
mechanical effect of combining, 238.
Great Britain, on the magnetic survey
of, 130.

Grubb (Thomas), report on the improve-
ment of telescope and equatorial
mountings, 195.

Hardwicke (The Earl of), report on the
measurement of ships for tonnage, 62.
Hargreave (Charles James) on the alge-
braic couple; and on the equivalents
of indeterminate expressions, 184.
Harrison (J. Park), evidence of lunar in-
fluence on temperature, 248.
Henderson (Andrew), report on the mea-
surement of ships for tonnage, 62; pro-
posed alterations in the clauses of the
Merchant Shipping Act, 1854, apper-
taining to the measurement of ships
for tonnage, 86; report on the sta-
tistics of life-boats and fishing-boats
on the coasts of the United Kingdom,
308.

Henslow (Professor), sixteenth and final
report on the growth and vitality of
seeds, 43.

Hodges (Dr.) on flax, 126.

Hull, second report on steam-navigation
at, 57.

Hyndman (George C.), report of the pro-
ceedings of the Belfast Dredging Com-
mittee, 220.

Light, experiments on, 151.

Lindley (Professor), sixteenth and final
report on the growth and vitality of
seeds, 43.

Liverpool, report on the animal and vege-

table products imported into, from
1851-55, 254.

Lowe (E. J.), meteors observed by, 138.
Lunar influence on temperature, on, 248.

Macgregor (John), report on the mea-

surement of ships for tonnage, 62.
Magnetic survey of Great Britain, on
the, 130.

Mean values, on the principle of, 188.
Meteoric irons, description of five new,
149.

Meteorite, notice of a, which fell at Ciren-
cester, 140.
Meteorites, on, 149.

Meteors;-luminous, 131; list of, com-
municated by various observers, 134;
by E. J. Lowe, 138; on a remarkable,
seen at Southampton, Brighton, Seven-
oaks, and Blackheath, in January 1856,
141, 142; on the horary variation of,
143; on the colours of luminous, 144;
on extraordinary coloured, 153,
Miller (Dr.) on electro-chemistry, 158.
Mines, on the temperature of some deep,
in Cornwall, 96.

Mollusca of Belfast Bay, 221.
Moorsom (Admiral), report on the mea-
surement of ships for tonnage, 62.

Napier (J. R.), report on the measure-

ment of ships for tonnage, 62.

Oldham (James), second report on steam
navigation at Hull, 57.
Owen (Capt. J. O.), report on the mea-
surement of ships for tonnage, 62.

Paris, colours of shooting stars and globes

observed at, from 1841-43, 147.
Perry (James), report on the measure-
ment of ships for tonnage, 62.
Plarr (Dr. Gustaf) on some transforma-
tions of a series of factorial exponen-
tials, 101.

Poey (M. A.) on the colours of luminous
meteors, 144.

Point Barrow, thermometrical observa-
tions made at, in 1852-54, 159.
Powell (Rev. Prof.), tenth report on ob-
servations of luminous meteors, 1856-
57, 131.

Railway trains, on the adaptation of sus-
pension bridges to sustain the passage
of, 154.

Russell (John Scott), report on the mea-
surement of ships for tonnage, 62.

Sabine (Maj.-Gen.), report of the com-
mittee on the magnetic survey of Great
Britain, 130.

Seeds, on the growth and vitality of, 43.
Sevenoaks, remarkable meteor seen at,

in January 1856, 142.

Shells, list of, from the Turbot Bank, 230;
dredged off the Maidens Light-houses,
234.

Ships, on the measurement of, for ton-
nage, 62.

Shooting star, on an ascending, 152.
Shooting stars and globes observed in
China, colours of, 145; in England,
ib.; at Paris, 147.

Simpson (John) on thermometrical ob-
servations made at the Plover's'
wintering-place, Point Barrow, in
1852-54, 159.

Smith (Dr. J. Lawrance), a memoir on
meteorites; and description of five new
meteoric irons, &c., 149.

Smyth (Prof. C. P.), notice of an ascend-
ing shooting star, 152.

Southampton, a remarkable meteor scen
at, in January 1856, 140.

Spongiada, on the vitality of the, 121.
Steam navigation at Hull, second report
on, 57.

Steam transport economy, on mercantile,
113.

Strangford Lough, on the marine zoology
of, 104.

Telescope and equatorial mountings, on
the improvement of, 195.
Temperature, evidences of lunar in-
fluence on, 248.

Thermometrical observations at Point
Barrow, in 1852-54, 159.

Thomson (Prof. Wyville) on zoophytes.
received from the North of Ireland,
235.

Tubes, on the resistance of, to collapse,
215.

Turbot Bank, list of shells from the, 230.

Vegetable products imported into Liver-
pool from 1851-55, 254.
Vignoles (C.) on the adaptation of sus-
pension bridges to sustain the passage
of railway trains, 154.

Woodcroft (Prof. Bennett), report on the
measurement of ships for tonnage, 62.
Woolley (Rev. Dr.), report on the mea-
surement of ships for tonnage, 62.

Yates (James), report on the measure-
ment of ships for tonnage, 62.

Zoology, marine, of Strangford Lough,

104.

Zoophytes received from the North of
Ireland, 235.

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ACCADIAN language, on the relation
between the, and the Indo-European,
Semitic, and Egyptian languages, 134.
Acids and bases, on the heat of combi-
nation of, 44.

Acids of the series C" H"O', on the pre-
sence of several, among the products
of the distillation of peat, 58.
Acoustic phenomenon, on a singular, 22.
Africa, Southern, on discoveries in, 146.
Agricultural and manufacturing industry,
on, 162.

Alabama, on Prof. Tuomey's geological
map of, 78.

Albumen, on the physiological relations
of, 110.

Albuminized collodion plates, on the pre-
servation of, 61.

Alcohol, on the specific gravity of chlo-
ride of nitrogen, with some remarks
upon its action on, 47.

Algæ, amount of nitrogen in the, 44.
Alison (Dr.) on certain a priori prin-
ciples of biology, 109.

Alum, on the effects of, in panification, 55.
Aluminium, on the atomic weight of, 53;
ammonio-iodide of, 55.

Amazon, on routes from Lima to the
navigable branches of the, 145.
America, on equitable villages in, 170.
Ammonia, on some arseniates of, 47.
Ammonio-iodide of metals, on a new
method of forming, 55.
Anderson's (James) report of a searching
party down the Great Fish River in
quest of the crews of the Erebus' and
Terror' in 1855, 148.

Andrews (Prof. T.) on ozone, 44; on the
heat of combination of acids and bases,
ib.

Andrews (William) on the sea-fisheries
of Ireland, with reference to their in-
vestigation practically and scientifi-
cally, 101.

Angles, on infinite, 3; a demonstration
that the three angles of every triangle

are equal to two right, 4.
Animals, on the presence of copper in the
tissues of, 55; on the dispersion of
domestic, in connexion with the pri-
mary ethnological divisions of the
human race, 105; on the alternation of
generations and parthenogenesis in, 113.
Annuities, on deferred, 172.
Apatite, on the composition of, 59.
Apjohn (Dr.) on some compounds of
cyanogen, 44; on the amount of
nitrogen in the Algæ, ib.

Aquaria, on a method of applying the
compound microscope to the sides or
top of, 106.

Arctic searching expedition, on the final,
146.

Astronomical observations, on the theory
of, 2.
Astronomy, 23.

Atlantic cable, on diminishing the strain
on the, by an elastic regulator, 180.
Atmosphere, on the vertical currents of
the, 30.

Atmospheric circulation, on the grand
currents of, 38.
Atmospheric vicissitudes and epidemic dis-
eases, on the connexion between, 115.
Attractions, theory of, on some general

propositions connected with the, 3.
Aurora at Point Barrow, on the, 14.
Australia, on the present condition of the
natives of, 154; on the effects of the
gold of, 160.