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CONTENTS.

OBJECTS and Rules of the Association

Places and Times of Meeting and Officers from commencement

Presidents and Secretaries of the Sections of the Association from com-

List of Evening Lectures....

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Lectures to the Operative Classes

Officers of Sectional Committees present at the Oxford Meeting.........

Officers and Council, 1894-95 ....

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 Oxford Meet-

ing in August 1894

Papers ordered to be printed in extenso

Resolutions relating to the Constitution and Titles of Sections

Resolutions, referred to the Council for consideration, and action if

Synopsis of Grants of Money

Places of Meeting in 1895 and 1896

General Statement of Sums which have been paid on account of Grants

for Scientific Purposes

General Meetings

Address by the President, the Most Hon. the Marquis of SALISBURY, K.G.,

D.C.L., F.R.S., Chancellor of the University of Oxford

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.]

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, Mr. W. TOPLEY, Professor E. B. POULTON, Mr. CUTHBERT

PEEK, and Rev. Canon H. B. TRISTRAM

Report on the Present State of our Knowledge of Thermodynamics. By

G. H. BRYAN. Part II.-The Laws of Distribution of Energy and their

APPENDIX A.-The Possible Laws of Partition of Rotatory Energy in

Non-colliding Rigid Bodies

APPENDIX B.-On the Law of Molecular Distribution in the Atmo-

sphere of a Rotating Planet

APPENDIX C.-On the Application of the Determinantal Relation to

the Kinetic Theory of Polyatomic Gases. By Professor LUDWIG

The Best Methods of recording the Direct Intensity of Solar Radiation.-Tenth

Report of the Committee, consisting of Sir G. G. 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 H. MCLEOD. (Drawn up by Professor MCLEOD) ... 106

Underground Temperature.-Twentieth Report of the Committee, consisting

of Professor J. D. EVERETT, Professor Lord KELVIN, Mr. G. J. SYMONS,

Sir A. GEIKIE, Mr. J. GLAISHER, Professor EDWARD HULL, Professor 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, Secretary.) 107

Meteorological Observations on Ben Nevis.-Report of the Committee, consist-

ing of Lord MCLAREN (Chairman), Professor A. CRUM BROWN (Secretary),

Dr. JOHN MURRAY, Dr. ALEXANDER BUCHAN, Hon. RALPH ABERCROMBY,

and Professor R. COPELAND. (Drawn up by Dr. BUCHAN)

Experiments for Improving the Construction of Practical Standards for Elec-

trical Measurements-Report of the Committee, consisting of Professor

CAREY FOSTER (Chairman), Lord KELVIN, Professors AYRTON, J. PERRY,

W. G. ADAMS, and Lord RAYLEIGH, Drs. O. J. LODGE, JOHN HOPKINSON,

and A. MUIRHEAD, Messrs. W. H. PREECE and HERBERT TAYLOR, Professor

J. D. EVERETT, Professor A. SCHUSTER, Dr. J. A. FLEMING, Professors

G. F. FITZGERALD, G. CHRYSTAL, and J. J. THOMSON, Messrs. R. T. GLAZE-

BROOK (Secretary) and W. N. SHAW, Rev. T. C. FITZPATRICK, Dr. J. T. BOT-

TOMLEY, Professor J. VIRIAMU JONES, Dr. G. JOHNSTONE STONEY, Professor

S.P. THOMPSON, and Mr. G. FORBES....

APPENDIX I.-Report of the American Delegates at the Chicago Con-

ference to the Secretary of State at Washington

APPENDIX II.-Experiments on the Value of the Ohm. By J.

APPENDIX III.-Comparison of the Standards employed by Professor

Jones with the Standards of the Association. By R. T. GLAZEBROOK 128

APPENDIX IV.-Comparison of some of the Standards of the Board of

Trade with those of the Association. By J. RENNIE

APPENDIX V.-Values of Certain Coils belonging to the Indian Govern-

ment. By E. O. WALKER

APPENDIX VI.—On the Specific Resistance of Copper and of Silver.

By Rev. T. C. FITZPATRICK

APPENDIX VII.-Final Report of the Electrical Standards Committee

of the Board of Trade, and Order in Council regarding Standards for

Electrical Measurements

The Application of Photography to the Elucidation of Meteorological Pheno-

mena-Fourth 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)

Earth Tremors.-Report of the Committee, consisting of Mr. G. J. SYMONS,

Mr. C. DAVISON (Secretary), Sir F. J. BRAMWELL, Professor G. H. DARWIN,

Professor J. A. EWING, Dr. ISAAC ROBERTS, Mr. THOMAS GRAY, Sir JOHN

EVANS, Professors J. PRESTWICH, E. HULL, G. A. LEBOUR, R. MELDOLA,

and J. W. JUDD, Mr. M. WALTON BROWN, Mr. J. GLAISHER, Professor C.

G. KNOTT, Professor J. H. POYNTING, Mr. HORACE DARWIN, and Dr. R.

COPELAND (Drawn up by the Secretary)

APPENDIX I.-Account of Observations made with the Horizontal

Pendulum at Nicolaiew. By Professor S. KORTAZZI

APPENDIX II.-The Bifilar Pendulum at the Royal Observatory, Edin-

burgh. By Professor R. COPELAND

The Electrolytic Methods of Quantitative Analysis.-Report of the Committee,

consisting of Professor J. EMERSON REYNOLDS (Chairman), Dr. C. A. KOHN

(Secretary), Professor P. FRANKLAND, Professor F. CLOWES, Dr. HUGH

MARSHALL, Mr. A. E. FLETCHER, Mr. D. H. NAGEL, Mr. T. TURNER, and

Mr. J. B. COLEMAN

Bibliography of Spectroscopy.-Report of the Committee, consisting of Pro-

fessor H. MCLEOD (Chairman), Professor W. C. ROBERTS-AUSTEN, Mr. H. G.

MADAN, and Mr. D. H. NAGEL......

An International Standard for the Analysis of Iron and Steel.-Sixth Report

of the Committee, consisting of Professor W. C. ROBERTS-AUSTEN (Chairman),

Sir F. ABEL, Mr. E. RILEY, Mr. J. SPILLER, Professor J. W. LANGLEY, Mr.

G. J. SNELUS, Professor TILDEN, and Mr. THOMAS TURNER (Secretary).

(Drawn up by the Secretary)

The Action of Light upon Dyed Colours.-Report of the Committee, consisting

of Professor T. E. THORPE (Chairman), Professor J. J. HUMMEL (Secretary),

Dr. W. H. PERKIN, Professor W. J. RUSSELL, Captain W. DE W. ABNEY,

Professor W. STROUD, and Professor R. MELDOLA. (Drawn up by the

The Bibliography of Solution.-Interim Report of the Committee, consisting

of Professor W. A. TILDEN (Chairman), Dr. W. W. J. NICOL (Secretary),

Professor H. MCLEOD, Mr. S. U. PICKERING, Professor W. RAMSAY, and

Professor SYDNEY YOUNG

Proximate Chemical Constituents of Coal.-Interim Report of the Committee,

consisting of Sir I. LOWTHIAN BELL (Chairman), Professor P. PHILLIPS

BEDSON (Secretary), Mr. LUDWIG MOND, Professor VIVIAN B. LEWES,

Professor E. HULL, Mr. J. W. THOMAS, and Mr. H. BAUERMAN..

Wave-length Tables of the Spectra of the Elements and Compounds.-Report

of the Committee, consisting of Sir H. E. RoscoE, Dr. MARSHALL WATTS,

Mr. J. N. LOCKYER, Professors J. DEWAR, G. D. LIVEING, A. SCHUSTER,

W. N. HARTLEY, and WOLCOTT GIBBS, and Captain ABNEY. (Drawn up

by Dr. MARSHALL WATTS)

Isomeric Naphthalene Derivatives.-Eighth Report of the Committee, con-

sisting of Professor W. A. TILDEN and Professor H. E. ARMSTRONG.

(Drawn up by Professor ARMSTRONG)..

The Investigation of the Cave at Elbolton in order to ascertain whether the

Remains of Palæolithic Man occur in the Lower Cave Earth.-Report of

the Committee, consisting of Mr. R. H. TIDDEMAN (Chairman), Rev.

EDWARD JONES (Secretary), Sir JOHN EVANS, Dr. J. G. GARSON, Mr. W.

PENGELLY, and Mr. J. J. WILKINSON

Fossil Phyllopoda of the Paleozoic Rocks.-Eleventh Report of the Com-

mittee, consisting of Professor T. WILTSHIRE (Chairman), Dr. H. WOOD-

WARD, and Professor T. RUPERT JONES (Secretary). (Drawn up by Pro-

fessor T. RUPERT JONES)

Exploration of the Calf Hole Cave at the Heights, Skyrethorns, near Skipton.-

Report of the Committee, consisting of Mr. R. H. TIDDEMAN (Chairman),

Rev. E. JONES (Secretary), Professor W. BOYD DAWKINS, Professor L. C.

MIALL, Mr. P. F. KENDALL, Mr. A. BIRTWHISTLE, and Mr. J. J. WILKINSON 272

The Collection, Preservation, and Systematic Registration of Photographs

of Geological Interest in the United Kingdom.-Fifth Report of the

Committee, consisting of Professor JAMES GEIKIE (Chairman), Professor

T. G. BONNEY, Dr. TEMPEST ANDERSON, Dr. VALENTINE BALL, Mr. JAMES

E. BEDFORD, Professor W. BOYD DAWKINS, Mr. EDMUND J. GARWOOD,

Mr. J. G. GOODCHILD, Mr. WILLIAM GRAY, Mr. ROBERT KIDSTON, Mr.

ARTHUR S. REID, Mr. J. J. H. TEALL, Mr. R. H. TIDDEMAN, Mr. W. W.

WATTS, Mr. HORACE B. WOODWARD, and Mr. OSMUND W. JEFFS (Secretary).

(Drawn up by the Secretary)..

........

The Circulation of Underground Waters.-Twentieth Report of the Com-

mittee, consisting of Dr. E. HULL (Chairman), Sir DOUGLAS GALTON, Mr.

J. GLAISHER, Mr. PERCY KENDALL, Professor G. A. LEBOUR, Messrs.

E. B. MARTEN, G. H. MORTON, Professor PRESTWICH, and Messrs. I.

ROBERTS, THOS. S. STOOKE, G. J. SYMONS, W. TOPLEY, C. TYLDEN-WRIGHT,

E. WETHERED, W. WHITAKER, and C. E. DE RANCE (Secretary). (Drawn

up by C. E. DE RANCE).......

The Eurypterid-bearing Deposits of the Pentland Hills.-Second Report of the

Committee, consisting of Dr. R. H. TRAQUAIR (Chairman), Professor T.

RUPERT JONES, and Mr. MALCOLM LAURIE (Secretary). (Drawn up by

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