LIST OF PLATES. PLATES I., II., III. Illustrative of the Report of the Committee on the Difference between the Resistance of Water to Floating and to Immersed Bodies. PLATES IV., V. Illustrative of the Report of the Lunar Committee for Mapping the Surface of the Moon. PLATE VI. Illustrative of the Report of the Committee on the Fall of Rain in the British Isles. OF THE ASSOCIATION. OBJECTS. THE ASSOCIATION contemplates no interference with the ground occupied by other institutions. Its objects are,—To give a stronger impulse and a more systematic direction to scientific inquiry,-to promote the intercourse of those who cultivate Science in different parts of the British Empire, with one another, and with foreign philosophers,-to obtain a more general attention to the objects of Science, and a removal of any disadvantages of a public kind which impede its progress. RULES. ADMISSION OF MEMBERS AND ASSOCIATES. All persons who have attended the first Meeting shall be entitled to become Members of the Association, upon subscribing an obligation to conform to its Rules. The Fellows and Members of Chartered Literary and Philosophical Societies publishing Transactions, in the British Empire, shall be entitled, in like manner, to become Members of the Association. The Officers and Members of the Councils, or Managing Committees, of Philosophical Institutions, shall be entitled, in like manner, to become Members of the Association. All Members of a Philosophical Institution recommended by its Council or Managing Committee, shall be entitled, in like manner, to become Members of the Association. Persons not belonging to such Institutions shall be elected by the General Committee or Council, to become Life Members of the Association, Annual Subscribers, or Associates for the year, subject to the approval of a General Meeting. COMPOSITIONS, SUBSCRIPTIONS, AND PRIVILEGES. LIFE MEMBERS shall pay, on admission, the sum of Ten Pounds. They shall receive gratuitously the Reports of the Association which may be published after the date of such payment. They are eligible to all the offices of the Association. ANNUAL SUBSCRIBERS shall pay, on admission, the sum of Two Pounds, and in each following year the sum of One Pound. They shall receive gratuitously the Reports of the Association for the year of their admission and for the years in which they continue to pay without intermission their Annual Subscription. By omitting to pay this Subscription in any particular year, Members of this class (Annual Subscribers) lose for that and all future years the privilege of receiving the volumes of the Association gratis: but they may resume their Membership and other privileges at any subsequent Meeting of the Association, paying on each such occasion the sum of One Pound. They are eligible to all the Offices of the Association. ASSOCIATES for the year shall pay on admission the sum of One Pound. They shall not receive gratuitously the Reports of the Association, nor be eligible to serve on Committees, or to hold any office. 1866. b xviii RULES OF THE ASSOCIATION. The Association consists of the following classes :— 1. Life Members admitted from 1831 to 1845 inclusive, who have paid on admission Five Pounds as a composition. 2. Life Members who in 1846, or in subsequent years, have paid on admission Ten Pounds as a composition. 3. Annual Members admitted from 1831 to 1839 inclusive, subject to the payment of One Pound annually. [May resume their Membership after intermission of Annual Payment.] 4. Annual Members admitted in any year since 1839, subject to the payment of Two Pounds for the first year, and One Pound in each following year. [May resume their Membership after intermission of Annual Payment.] 5. Associates for the year, subject to the payment of One Pound. 6. Corresponding Members nominated by the Council. And the Members and Associates will be entitled to receive the annual volume of Reports, gratis, or to purchase it at reduced (or Members') price, according to the following specification, viz. : 1. Gratis.-Old Life Members who have paid Five Pounds as a composition for Annual Payments, and previous to 1845 a further sum of Two Pounds as a Book Subscription, or, since 1845, a further sum of Five Pounds. New Life Members who have paid Ten Pounds as a composition. Annual Members who have not intermitted their Annual Subscription. 2. At reduced or Members' Prices, viz. two-thirds of the Publication Price.-Old Life Members who have paid Five Pounds as a composition for Annual Payments, but no further sum as a Book Subscription. Annual Members who have intermitted their Annual Subscription. Associates for the year. [Privilege confined to the volume for that year only.] 3. Members may purchase (for the purpose of completing their sets) any of the first seventeen volumes of Transactions of the Association, and of which more than 100 copies remain, at one-third of the Publication Price. Application to be made (by letter) to Messrs. Taylor & Francis, Red Lion Court, Fleet St., London. Subscriptions shall be received by the Treasurer or Secretaries. MEETINGS. The Association shall meet annually, for one week, or longer. The place of each Meeting shall be appointed by the General Committee at the previous Meeting; and the Arrangements for it shall be entrusted to the Officers of the Association. GENERAL COMMITTEE. The General Committee shall sit during the week of the Meeting, or longer, to transact the business of the Association. It shall consist of the following persons:— 1. Presidents and Officers for the present and preceding years, with authors of Reports in the Transactions of the Association. 2. Members who have communicated any Paper to a Philosophical Society, which has been printed in its Transactions, and which relates to such subjects as are taken into consideration at the Sectional Meetings of the Association. 3. Office-bearers for the time being, or Delegates, altogether not exceeding three in number, from any Philosophical Society publishing Transactions. 4. Office-bearers for the time being, or Delegates, not exceeding three, from Philosophical Institutions established in the place of Meeting, or in any place where the Association has formerly met. 5. Foreigners and other individuals whose assistance is desired, and who are specially nominated in writing for the Meeting of the year by the President and General Secretaries. 6. The Presidents, Vice-Presidents, and Secretaries of the Sections are ex-officio members of the General Committee for the time being. SECTIONAL COMMITTEES. The General Committee shall appoint, at each Meeting, Committees, consisting severally of the Members most conversant with the several branches of Science, to advise together for the advancement thereof. The Committees shall report what subjects of investigation they would particularly recommend to be prosecuted during the ensuing year, and brought under consideration at the next Meeting. The Committees shall recommend Reports on the state and progress of particular Sciences, to be drawn up from time to time by competent persons, for the information of the Annual Meetings. COMMITTEE OF RECOMMENDATIONS. The General Committee shall appoint at each Meeting a Committee, which shall receive and consider the Recommendations of the Sectional Committees, and report to the General Committee the measures which they would advise to be adopted for the advancement of Science. All Recommendations of Grants of Money, Requests for Special Researches, and Reports on Scientific Subjects, shall be submitted to the Committee of Recommendations, and not taken into consideration by the General Committee, unless previously recommended by the Committee of Recommendations. LOCAL COMMITTEES. Local Committees shall be formed by the Officers of the Association to assist in making arrangements for the Meetings. Local Committees shall have the power of adding to their numbers those Members of the Association whose assistance they may desire. OFFICERS. A President, two or more Vice-Presidents, one or more Secretaries, and a Treasurer, shall be annually appointed by the General Committee. COUNCIL. In the intervals of the Meetings, the affairs of the Association shall be managed by a Council appointed by the General Committee. The Council may also assemble for the despatch of business during the week of the Meeting. PAPERS AND COMMUNICATIONS. The Author of any paper or communication shall be at liberty to reserve his right of property therein. ACCOUNTS. The Accounts of the Association shall be audited annually, by Auditors appointed by the Meeting. Table showing the Places and Times of Meeting of the British Association, with Presidents, Vice-Presidents, and Local Secretaries, from its Commencement. PRESIDENTS. VICE-PRESIDENTS. The EARL FITZWILLIAM, D.C.L., F.R.S., F.G.S., &c. } Rev. W. Vernon Harcourt, M.A., F.R.S., F.G.S.. The REV. W. BUCKLAND, D.D., F.R.S., F.G.S., &c.. f Sir David Brewster, F.R.S. L. & E., &c... OXFORD, June 19, 1832. The REV. ADAM SEDGWICK, M.A., V.P.R.S., V.P.G.S. CAMBRIDGE, June 25, 1833. SIR T. MACDOUGALL BRISBANE, K.C.B., D.C.L., F.R.S. L. & E. EDINBURGH, September 8, 1834. The REV. PROVOST LLOYD, LL.D.. DUBLIN, August 10, 1835. The MARQUIS OF LANSDOWNE, D.C.L., F.R.S., &c.. BRISTOL, August 22, 1836. Rev. W. Whewell, F.R.S., Pres. Geol. Soc. (G. B. Airy, F.B.S., Astronomer Royal, &c. John Dalton, D.C.L., F.R.S.... Sir David Brewster, F.R.S., &c... Viscount Oxmantown, F.R.S., F.R.A.S... {Rev. W. Whewell, F.R.S., &c... The Marquis of Northampton, F.R.S. Rev. W. D. Conybeare, F.R.S., F.G.S. The EARL OF BURLINGTON, F.R.S., F.G.S., Chan- (The Bishop of Norwich, P.L.S., F.G.S. cellor of the University of London LIVERPOOL, September 11, 1837. The DUKE OF NORTHUMBERLAND, F.R.S., F.G.S., &c. NEWCASTLE-ON-TYNE, August 20, 1838. LOCAL SECRETARIES. William Gray, jun., F.G.S. {Professor Phillips, M.A., F.R.S., F.G.S. } Professor Daubeny, M.D., F.R.S., &c. Rev. Professor Powell, M.A., F.R.S., &c. Rev. Professor Henslow, M.A., F.L.S., F.G.S. } Rev. W. Whewell, F.R.S. Professor Forbes, F.R.S. L. & E., &c. Sir John Robinson, Sec. R.S.E. Sir W. R. Hamilton, Astron. Royal of Ireland, &c. Professor Daubeny, M.D., F.R.S., &c. Sir Philip de Grey Egerton, Bart., F.R.S., F.G.S..... The Bishop of Durham, F.R.S., F.S.A. Marquis of Northampton. The REV. W. VERNON HARCOURT, M.A., F.R.S., &c. The Rev. T. R. Robinson, D.D. BIRMINGHAM, August 26, 1839. Earl of Dartmouth. John Corrie, Esq., F.R.S. Very Rev. Principal Macfarlane Major-General Lord Greenock, F.R.S.E. {Sir T. M. Brisbane, Bart., F.R.S. The Earl of Morley. Sir C. Lemon, Bart. Sir D. T. Acland, Bart.. Sir David Brewster, F.R.S. The Earl of Mount Edgecumbe.. Lord Eliot, M.P. John Dalton, D.C.L., F.R.S. Rev. A. Sedgwick, M.A., F.R.S. Sir Benjamin Heywood, Bart. Earl of Listowel. Joseph Hodgson, Esq., F.R.S. Follett Os.er, Esq. Andrew Liddell, Esq. Rev. J. P. Nicol, LL.D. W. Snow Harris, Esq., F.R.S. Col. Hamilton Smith, F.L.S. Robert Were Fox, Esq. Richard Taylor, jun., Esq. Hon. and Rev. W. Herbert, F.L.S., &c.) Peter Clare, Esq., F.R.A.S. W. C. Henry, M.D., F.R.S. Viscount Adare Sir W. R. Hamilton, Pres.R.I.A. Rev. T. R. Robinson, D.D. ........ W. Fleming, M.D. James Heywood, Esq., F.R.S. Professor John Stevelly, M.A. ། |