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OF THE
SIXTY-FIFTH MEETING
BRITISH ASSOCIATION
FOR THE
ADVANCEMENT OF SCIENCE
HELD AT
IPSWICH IN SEPTEMBER 1895.
LONDON:
JOHN MURRAY, ALBEMARLE STREET.
1895.
Office of the Association: Burlington House, London, W.
PRINTED BY SPOTTISWOODE AND CO., NEW-STREET SQUARE LONDON
CONTENTS.
OBJECTS and Rules of the Association
Places and Times of Meeting, with Presidents, Vice-Presidents, and Local
Secretaries from commencement
Trustees and General Officers, 1831-1895.
Presidents and Secretaries of the Sections of the Association from 1832 ...
List of Evening Lectures
Lectures to the Operative Classes
Officers of Sectional Committees present at the Ipswich Meeting
Officers and Council, 1895-96 ....
Treasurer's Account
Table showing the Attendance and Receipts at the Annual Meetings
Report of the Council to the General Committee.....
Committees appointed by the General Committee at the Ipswich Meet-
ing in September 1895....
Communications ordered to be printed in extenso
Regulations regarding Grants of Money
Resolutions referred to the Council for consideration, and action if
desirable
Synopsis of Grants of Money
Places of Meeting in 1896 and 1897
General Statement of Sums which have been paid on account of Grants
for Scientific Purposes ..........
General Meetings
Address by the President, Sir DOUGLAS GALTON, K.C.B., D.C.L., F.R.S....
REPORTS ON THE STATE OF SCIENCE.
[An asterisk* indicates that the title only is given. The mark † indicates the same, but a reference is given to the journal or newspaper where it is published in extenso.]
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Corresponding Societies.-Report of the Committee, consisting of Professor R.
MELDOLA (Chairman), Mr. T. V. HOLMES (Secretary), Mr. FRANCIS GALTON,
Sir DOUGLAS GALTON, Sir RAWSON RAWSON, Mr. G. J. SYMONS, Dr. J. G.
GARSON, Sir JOHN EVANS, Mr. J. HOPKINSON, Professor T. G. BONNEY, Mr.
W. WHITAKER, Professor E. B. POULTON, Mr. CUTHBERT PEEK, and Rev.
Canon H. B. TRISTRAM
Underground Temperature.-Twenty-first Report of the Committee, consisting
of Professor J. D. EVERETT (Chairman and Secretary), Lord KELVIN, Mr.
G. J. SYMONS, Sir A. GEIKIE, Mr. J. GLAISHER, Professor E. HULL, Pro-
fessor J. PRESTWICH, Dr. C. LE NEVE FOSTER, Professor A. S. HERSCHEL,
Professor G. A. LEBOUR, Mr. A. B. WYNNE, Mr. W. GALLOWAY, Mr.
JOSEPH DICKINSON, Mr. G. F. DEACON, Mr. E. WETHERED, Mr. A. STRAHAN,
and Professor MICHIE SMITH. (Drawn up by Professor EVERETT)
The Uniformity of Size of Pages of Scientific Societies' Publications.-Report
of the Committee, consisting of Professor S. P. THOMPSON (Chairman),
Mr. G. H. BRYAN, Dr. C. V. BURTON, Mr. R. T. GLAZEBROOK, Dr. G.
JOHNSTONE STONEY, and Mr. J. SWINBURNE (Secretary)....
Comparison of Magnetic Instruments.-Interim report of the Committee, con-
sisting of Professor A. W. RÜCKER (Chairman), Mr. W. WATSON (Secre-
tary), Professor A. SCHUSTER, and Professor H. H. TURNER, appointed to
confer with the Astronomer Royal and the Superintendents of other
Observatories with reference to the Comparison of Magnetic Standards
with a view of carrying out such Comparison
The Application of Photography to the Elucidation of Meteorological Pheno-
mena. Fifth Report of the Committee, consisting of Mr. G. J. SYMONS
(Chairman), Professor R. MELDOLA, Mr. J. HOPKINSON, and Mr. A. W.
CLAYDEN (Secretary). (Drawn up by the Secretary)
Solar Radiation.-Eleventh Report of the Committee, consisting of Sir G. C.
STOKES (Chairman), Professor A. SCHUSTER, Mr. G. JOHNSTONE STONEY,
Sir H. E. ROSCOE, Captain W. DE W. ABNEY, Mr. C. CHREE, Mr. G. J.
SYMONS, Mr. W. E. WILSON, and Professor HERBERT MCLEOD, appointed
to consider the best Methods of Recording the Direct Intensity of Solar
Radiation
Investigation of the Earthquake and Volcanic Phenomena of Japan. Four-
teenth Report of the Committee, consisting of Lord KELVIN, Professor
W. G. ADAMS, Mr. J. T. BOTTOMLEY, Professor A. H. GREEN, Professor
C. G. KNOTT, and Professor JOHN MILNE (Secretary). (Drawn up by the
Secretary)
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I. The Gray Milne Seismograph
II. Observations with Horizontal Pendulums
(a) The Instruments
(b) Observations at Kamakura.....
(c) The Diagrams
(d) The Movements of the Pendulums
(e) Earthquakes.....
(f) The Observations in Tokio......
(g) Sensitiveness of the Instruments
(h) Daily Tilting
(i) Extract from Journal of Records obtained in 1894..
(j) The Wandering of the Pendulums
'k) Movements of Water in a Well....
(7) An Experiment on Evaporation
(m) Effects produced by emptying a Well
(n) Earthquakes.....
(0) Tremors.....
(p) Observations at Yokohama and Kanagawa...
(q) Conclusions
III. The Tokio Earthquakes of June 20, 1894
IV. Miscellaneous
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(a) History of the Catalogues
(6) Explanation of the Catalogues
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Investigation of the Earthquake and Volcanic Phenomena of Japan. Fif-
teenth Report of the Committee, consisting of the Right Hon. Lord
KELVIN, Professor W. G. ADAMS, Mr. J. T. BOTTOMLEY, Professor A. H.
GREEN, Professor C. G. KNOTT, and Professor JOHN MILNE (Secretary).
(Drawn up by the Secretary)
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I. The Gray-Milne Seismograph.........
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(a) The Instruments, Installation, Character of Movements
(b) Daily Wave Records
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(c) Tremors, Microseismic Disturbances, or Earth Pulsations...... 126
(d) The Slow Displacement of Pendulums...................
128
(e) Periodic movements of several days' duration, and wandering
of the pendulums
(f) The Daily Change in the Position of the Pendulums ........
(g) The Diurnal Wave
(h) Tremors
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(i) Meteorological Tables for Tokio..................................
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(j) Earthquakes recorded by Horizontal Pendulums in Tokio 147
III. Description of a Catalogue of 8,33] Earthquakes recorded in Japan
between January 1885 and December 1892..
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