OFFICERS OF SECTIONAL COMMITTEES PRESENT AT THE SHEFFIELD MEETING.

SECTION A.-MATHEMATICS AND PHYSICS.

President.-George Johnstone Stoney, M.A., F.R.S., M.R.I.A., Secretary to the Queen's University, Ireland.

Vice-Presidents.-Rev. Samuel Earnshaw, M.A.; W. Spottiswoode, D.C.L., LL.D., Pres. R.S.; C. W. Merrifield, F.R.S.,; Dr. J. Janssen; the Earl of Rosse, F.R.S.; Professor H. A. Newton.

Secretaries.-A. H. Allen, F.C.S.; J. W. L. Glaisher, M.A., F.R.S., Sec. R.A.S.; Oliver J. Lodge, D.Sc.; Donald McAlister, B.A., B.Sc. (Recorder).

SECTION B.-CHEMISTRY.

President.-Professor Dewar, M.A., F.R.S. L. & E.

Vice-Presidents.-Professor Abel, F.R.S., Dr. Longstaff; I. Lowthian Bell, M.P., F.R.S.; W. Crookes, F.R.S.; Dr. J. H. Gladstone, F.R.S.; Dr. Gilbert, F.R.S.; A. Vernon Harcourt, M.A., F.R.S.; Professor Odling, M.B., F.R.S.; Dr. Ronalds, F.R.S.E.; H. Clifton Sorby, LL.D., F.R.S.; Professor A. W. Williamson, LL.D., F.R.S.

Secretaries.-W. Chandler Roberts, F.R.S.; J. Millar Thomson, F.C.S., (Recorder); H. S. Bell, F.C.S.

SECTION C.-GEOLOGY.

President.-Professor P. Martin Duncan, M.B., F.R.S., F.G.S.
Vice-Presidents.-Professor A. H. Green, M.A., F.G.S.; W. Pengelly,
F.R.S.; Professor A. C. Ramsay, LL.D., F.R.S.; Professor W. C.
Williamson, F.R.S.

Secretaries.-W. Topley, F.G.S. (Recorder); G. Blake Walker, F.G.S.

SECTION D.-BIOLOGY.

President.-Professor St. George Mivart, F.R.S., F.L.S., F.Z.S. Vice-Presidents.-Professor Gamgee, M.D., F.R.S.; Professor Lawson, M.A., F.L.S.; Dr. Pye-Smith; E. B. Tylor, D.C.L., F.R.S.; Professor J. O. Westwood; Professor A. Newton, F.R.S.; Dr. De Bartolomé. Secretaries.-Arthur Jackson, F.R.C.S.; Professor W. R. M'Nab, M.D. (Recorder); J. Brooking Rowe, F.L.S.; F. W. Rudler, F.G.S. (Recorder); Professor Schäfer, F.R.S. (Recorder).

SECTION E.-GEOGRAPHY.

President.-Clements R. Markham, C.B., F.R.S., F.L.S., Sec. R.G.S., F.S.A.

Vice-Presidents.-Rev. Canon Rawlinson, M.A.; Sir Rawson W. Rawson, K.C.M.G., C.B., F.R.G.S.; Lieut.-General Sir Heary Thuillier, C.S.I., F.R.S., F.R.G.S.; Captain Verney, R.N., F.R.G.S."

Secretaries.-H. W. Bates, F.L.S., Assist. Sec. R.G.S.; C. E. D. Black ; E. C. Rye, F.Z.S., Librarian R.G.S. (Recorder).

SECTION F.-ECONOMIC SCIENCE AND STATISTICS.

President.-G. Shaw Lefevre, M.P., Pres. Statistical Soc.

Vice-Presidents.-Frederick Brittain; A. J. Mundella, M.P., F.S.S.; Professor Leone Levi; J. Heywood, F.R.S.

Secretaries. Professor Adamson, M.A.; R. E. Leader, B.A.; Constantine Molloy (Recorder).

SECTION G.-MECHANICAL SCIENCE.

President.-J. Robinson, Pres. Inst. Mech. Eng.

Vice-Presidents.-W. H. Barlow, F.R.S.; Sir John Brown; E. A. Cowper; Alderman Mark Firth; R. B. Grantham, C.E., F.G.S.; Professor Osborne Reynolds, M.A., F.R.S.; Sir Joseph Whitworth, Bart., F.R.S. Secretaries.-A. T. Atchison, M.A. (Recorder); Emerson Bainbridge; H. Trueman Wood, B.A.

1878-9.

THE BRITISH ASSOCIATION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF SCIENCE.

THE GENERAL TREASURER'S ACCOUNT from August 14, 1878 (commencement of DUBLIN Meeting), to August 20, 1879. Not including receipts at Sheffield Meeting.

RECEIPTS.

To Balance from last Account, Dublin Meeting

Received for Life Compositions at Dublin Meeting

1878-9.

PAYMENTS.

Paid Expenses of Dublin Meeting, also Sundry Printing,
Binding, Advertising, and Incidental Expenses...
Printing, Engraving, and Binding Report of 48th
Meeting, Vol. XLVII. (Dublin)

and since

230

Ladies' Tickets

ditto ditto

672 0 0

Dividends on Stock...

249 13 9

Sundry small sums for Transmission of Papers to Mem-
bers during Dublin Meeting

Interest on Deposit at London and Westminster Bank
Unexpended Balance of Grant made at Dublin Meeting
for "Electrolysis of Metallic Solutions and Solutions
of Compound Salts

6 10
26 5 1

Rent and Office Expenses (Albemarle Street-1 year) 104 5 0
Purchase of £1000 Consols..

Grants made at Dublin Meeting:

Table at the Zoological Station, Naples

Miocene Flora of the Basalt of the North of Ireland
Illustrations for a Monograph on the Mammoth...
Record of Zoological Literature

Composition and Structure of less known Alkaloids
Exploration of Caves in Borneo
Kent's Cavern Exploration

Record of the Progress of Geology

Fermanagh Caves Exploration.......

Electrolysis of Metallic Solutions and Solutions of
Compound Salts.......

Anthropometric Committee.............
Natural History of Socotra

Calculation of Factor Tables for 5th and 6th Millions
Circulation of Underground Waters.......
Steering of Screw Steamers.........
Improvements in Astronomical Clocks...
Marine Zoology of South Devon.....
Determination of Mechanical Equivalent of Heat..
Specific Inductive Capacity of Sprengel Vacuum..
Tables of Sun-heat Coefficients

Datum Level of the Ordnance Survey.....
Tables of Fundamental Invariants of Algebraic Forms
Atmospheric Electricity Observations in Madeira..
Instrument for Detecting Fire-damp in Mines
Instruments for Measuring the Speed of Ships.
Tidal Observations in the English Channel...

£24 12 0
£14 19 0

£4480 5 10

Date of Meeting

Where held

Table showing the Attendance and Receipts

Presidents

Old Life New Life
Members Members

1831, Sept. 27 1832, June 19 1833, June 25 1834, Sept. 8 1835, Aug. 10 1836, Aug. 22 1837, Sept. 11 1838, Aug. 10 1839, Aug. 26 1840, Sept. 17 1841; July 20 1842, June 23 1843, Aug. 17 1844, Sept. 26 1845, June 19 1846, Sept. 10 1847, June 23 1848, Aug. 9 1849, Sept. 12 1850, July 21 1851, July 2 1852, Sept. 1 1853, Sept. 3 1854, Sept. 20 1855, Sept. 12 1856, Aug. 6 1857, Aug. 26 1858, Sept. 22 1859, Sept. 14 1860, June 27 1861, Sept. 4 1862, Oct. 1 1863, Aug. 26

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Manchester
Cork
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The Earl Fitzwilliam, D.C.L.
The Rev. W. Buckland, F.R.S.
The Rev. A. Sedgwick, F.R.S.
Sir T. M. Brisbane, D.C.L.......
The Rev. Provost Lloyd, LL.D.
The Marquis of Lansdowne
The Earl of Burlington, F.R.S.
Newcastle-on-Tyne The Duke of Northumberland
The Rev. W. Vernon Harcourt
The Marquis of Breadalbane...
The Rev. W. Whewell, F.R.S.
The Lord Francis Egerton......
The Earl of Rosse, F.R.S.
The Rev. G. Peacock, D.D.
Sir John F. W. Herschel, Bart.
Sir Roderick I. Murchison, Bart.
Sir Robert H. Inglis, Bart.......
The Marquis of Northampton
The Rev. T. R. Robinson, D.D.
Sir David Brewster, K.H.
G. B. Airy, Astronomer Royal
Lieut.-General Sabine, F.R.S.
William Hopkins, F.R.S.
The Earl of Harrowby, F.R.S.
The Duke of Argyll, F.R.S.
Prof. C. G. B. Daubeny, M.D.
The Rev.Humphrey Lloyd, D.D.
Richard Owen, M.D., D.C.L....
H.R.H. the Prince Consort

Newcastle-on-Tyne Sir William G. Armstrong, C.B.
Sir Charles Lyell, Bart., M.A.
Prof. J. Phillips, M.A., LL.D.
William R. Grove, Q.C., F.R.S.
The Duke of Buccleuch, K.C.B.
Dr. Joseph D. Hooker, F.R.S.
Prof. G. G. Stokes, D.C.L..
Prof. T. H. Huxley, LL.D.......
Prof. Sir W. Thomson, LL.D.
Dr. W. B. Carpenter, F.R.S....

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Prof. A. W. Williamson, F.R.S.

1874, Aug. 19 Belfast

1875, Aug. 25 Bristol

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