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CONTENTS.

OBJECTS and Rules of the Association

Officers and Council.....

Places of Meeting and Officers from commencement....

Table of Council from commencement

Officers of Sectional Committees, and Corresponding Members

Treasurer's Account....

Reports, Researches, and Desiderata..

Recommendations for Additional Reports and Researches in Science

Synopsis of Money Grants

Arrangements of the General Evening Meetings

Address of the President...

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REPORTS OF RESEARCHES IN SCIENCE.

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On the Present State of our Theoretical and Experimental Knowledge

of the Laws of Conduction of Heat. By the Rev. Philip Kelland,

M.A., F.R.SS. Lond. and Edin., Professor of Mathematics in the Uni-

versity of Edinburgh, late Fellow of Queen's College, Cambridge ..

Report on Poisons. By G. L. ROUPELL, M.D., F.R.S.

Report on Discussions of Bristol Tides, performed by Mr. BUNT under

the direction of the Rev. W. WHEWELL, F.R.S.

Report on the Discussion of Leith Tide Observations, executed by

Mr. D. Ross, of the Hydrographer's Office, Admiralty, under the

direction of the Rev. W. WHEWELL

Upon the working of Whewell's Anemometer at Plymouth during the

past year. By W. S. HARRIS, Esq., F.R.S. . .

Report of a Committee, consisting of Sir J. F. W. HERSCHEL, Bart.,

Mr. WHEWELL, the Very Rev. the DEAN OF ELY, Professor LLOYD,

and Lieut.-Colonel SABINE, appointed for the purpose of superintend-

ing the scientific co-operation of the British Association in the

system of Simultaneous Observations in Terrestrial Magnetism and

Meteorology...

Reports of Committees appointed to provide Meteorological Instruments

for the use of M. Agassiz and Mr. M'Cord

Report of a Committee, consisting of Sir J. HERSCHEL only, to super-

intend the reduction of Meteorological Observations.—July 1841 42