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CONTENTS.

OBJECTS and Rules of the Association

Places and Times of Meeting, with Presidents, Vice-Presidents, and Local

Secretaries from commencement...............

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Trustees and General Officers, from 1831

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Presidents and Secretaries of the Sections of the Association from 1832 ...

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List of Evening Discourses

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Lectures to the Operative Classes

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Officers of Sectional Committees present at the South Africa Meeting ....

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Committee of Recommendations at the South Africa Meeting

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Treasurer's Account

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Table showing the Attendance and Receipts at the Annual Meetings ....

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Officers and Council, 1905-1906 .....

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Report of the Council to the General Committee......

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Committees appointed by the General Committee at the South Africa

Meeting in August and September 1905

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Communications ordered to be printed in extenso

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

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Synopsis of Grants of Money

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Places of Meeting in 1906 and 1907

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

Scientific Purposes

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General Meetings

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Address by the President, Professor G. H. DARWIN, M.A., LL.D., Ph.D.,

F.R.S.

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REPORTS ON THE STATE OF SCIENCE.

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Corresponding Societies Committee.-Report of the Committee, consisting of

Mr. W. WHITAKER (Chairman), Mr. F. W. RUDLER (Secretary), Rev.

J. O. BEVAN, Dr. HORACE T. BROWN, Dr. VAUGHAN CORNISH, Principal

E. H. GRIFFITHS, Mr. T. V. HOLMES, Mr. J. HOPKINSON, Professor

R. MELDOLA, Dr. H. R. MILL, Mr. C. H. READ, Rev. T. R. R. STEBBING,

Professor W. W. WATTS, and the GENERAL OFFICERS. (Drawn up by the

Secretary.)......

Report of the Conference of Delegates of Corresponding Societies held în

the Rooms of the Linnean Society, Burlington House, London,

October 30 and 31, 1905

Address by the Chairman, A. SMITH WOODWARD, LL.D., F.R.S.

The Law of Treasure Trove, especially in relation to Local Scientific

Societies. By WILLIAM MARTIN, M.A., LL.D.

The Law of Copyright as affecting the Proceedings of Scientific Societies.

By W. MORRIS COLLES.....

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The Preservation of our Native Plants. By Professor G. S. Boulger,

F.L.S., F.G.S.

List of Corresponding Societies, 1905-1906

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Catalogue of the more important Papers published by the Corresponding

Societies during the year ending May 31, 1905

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

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

Sir JOHN MURRAY, Dr. ALEXANDER BUCHAN, Professor COPELAND, and

Mr. R. T. OMOND. (Drawn up by Dr. BUCHAN.)

Magnetic Observations at Falmouth Observatory.-Report of the Committee,

consisting of Sir W. H. PREECE (Chairman), Dr. R. T. GLAZEBROOK (Secre-

tary), Professor W. G. ADAMS, Captain CREAK, Mr. W. L. Fox, Principal

Sir ARTHUR RÜCKER, and Professor A. SCHUSTER, appointed to co-

operate with the Committee of the Falmouth Observatory in their Magnetic

Observations

Investigation of the Upper Atmosphere by Means of Kites in co-operation

with a Committee of the Royal Meteorological Society.-Fourth Report of

the Committee, consisting of Dr. W. N. SHAW (Chairman), Mr. W. H.

DINES (Secretary), Mr. D. ARCHIBALD, Mr. C. VERNON BOYS, Dr. A.

BUCHAN, Dr. R. T. GLAZEBROOK, Dr. H. R. MILL, Professor A. Schuster,

and Dr. W. WATSON.

Seismological Investigations.-Tenth Report of the Committee, consisting

of Professor J. W. JUDD (Chairman), Mr. J. MILNE (Secretary), Lord

KELVIN, Professor T. G. BONNEY, Mr. C. V. Boys, Professor G. H.

DARWIN, Mr. HORACE DARWIN, Major L. DARWIN, Professor J. A. EWING,

Dr. R. T. GLAZEBROOK, Mr. M. H. GRAY, Professor C. G. KNOTT, Professor

R. MELDOLA, Mr. R. D. OLDHAM, Professor J. PERRY, Mr. W. E. PLUMMER,

Professor J. H. POYNTING, Mr. CLEMENT REID, Mr. NELSON RICHARDSON,

and Professor H. H. TURNER. (Drawn up by the Secretary.)

I. General Notes on Stations and Registers

II. The Situation of Stations

III. The Origins of Large Earthquakes in 1901

IV. On International Co-operation for Seismological Work

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V. Tabulation of the Records obtained in Tokyo of the Gray-Milne

Seismograph for the Years 1886-1901. By R. D. OLDHAM... 92

Experiments for Improving the Construction of Practical Standards for

Electrical Measurements.-Report of the Committee, consisting of Lord

RAYLEIGH (Chairman), Dr. R. T. GLAZEBROOK (Secretary), Lord Kelvin,

Professors W. E. AYRTON, J. Perry, W. G. ADAMS, and G. CAREY FOSTER,

Sir OLIVER J. LODGE, Dr. A. MUIRHEAD, Sir W. H. PREECE, Professors

A. SCHUSTER, J. A. FLEMING, and J. J. THOMSON, Dr. W. N. SHAW,

Dr. J. T. BoTTOMLEY, Rev. T. C. FITZPATRICK, Dr. G. JOHNSTONE

STONEY, Professor S. P. THOMPSON, Mr. J. RENNIE, Principal E. H.

GRIFFITHS, Sir A. W. RÜCKER, Professor H. L. CALLENDAR, and Mr.

GEORGE MATTHEY

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APPENDIX. On the Preparation of a Cadmium Cell. By F. E. SMITH. 98

The Transformation of Aromatic Nitroamines and Allied Substances, and its

Relation to Substitution in Benzene Derivatives.-Report of the Committee,

consisting of Professor F. S. KIPPING (Chairman), Professor K. J. P.

ORTON (Secretary), Dr. S. RUHEMANN, Dr. A. LAPWORTH, and Dr. J. T.

HEWITT

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

of the Committee, consisting of Sir H. E. RoscoE (Chairman), Dr. MAR-

SHALL WATTS (Secretary), Sir NORMAN LOCKYER, Professor Sir JAMES

DEWAR, Professor G. D. LIVEING, Professor A. SCHUSTER, Professor W. N.

HARTLEY, Professor WOLCOTT GIBBS, Sir W. DE W. ABNEY, and Dr. W. E.

ADENEY

The Study of Hydro-Aromatic Substances.-Report of the Committee, con-

sisting of Dr. E. DIVERS (Chairman), Professor A. W. CROSSLEY (Secretary),

Professor W. H. PERKIN, Dr. M. O. FORSTER, and Dr. H. R. LE SUEUR

Recent Work on Hydro-Aromatic Substances. By Professor A. W.

CROSSLEY...

Investigation of the Fossiliferous Drift Deposits at Kirmington, Lincolnshire,

and at various localities in the East Riding of Yorkshire.-Report of the

Committee, consisting of Mr. G. W. LAMPLUGH (Chairman), Mr. J. W.

STATHER (Secretary), Dr. TEMPEST ANDERSON, Professor J. W. CARR, Rev.

W. LOWER CARTER, Mr. A. R. DWERRYHOUSE, Mr. F. W. HARMER, Mr. J. H.

HOWARTH, Rev. W. JOHNSON, Professor P. F. KENDALL, Mr. H. B. MUFF,

Mr. E. T. NEWTON, Mr. CLEMENT REID, and Mr. THOMAS SHEPPARD

Investigation of the Fauna and Flora of the Trias of the British Isles.-

Third Report of the Committee, consisting of Professor W. A. HERDMAN

(Chairman), Mr. J. LOMAS (Secretary), Professor W. W. WATTS, Professor

P. F. KENDALL, and Messrs. H. C. BEASLEY, E. T. NEWTON, A. C. SEWard,

and W. A. E. USSHER. (Drawn up by the Secretary.)

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