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OF THE

FIFTY-SECOND MEETING

OF THE

BRITISH ASSOCIATION

FOR THE

ADVANCEMENT OF SCIENCE;

HELD AT

SOUTHAMPTON IN AUGUST 1882.

LONDON:

JOHN MURRAY, ALBEMARLE STREET.

1883.

Office of the Association: 22 ALBEMARLE STREET, LONDON, W.

CONTENTS.

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OBJECTS and Rules of the Association

xxi

Places and Times of Meeting and Officers from commencement......................... xxviii

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

mencement........

Evening Lectures....

Lectures to the Operative Classes.........

xlviii

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

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

Treasurer's Account...........

Officers and Council, 1882-83..........................

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

Recommendations of the General Committee for Additional Reports and

Researches in Science.........

Synopsis of Money Grants..........

lx

lxvi

Places of Meeting in 1883 and 1884...........

lxvii

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

for Scientific Purposes..................

lxviii

Arrangement of the General Meetings.........

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Address by the President, C. WILLIAM SIEMENS, Esq.,_D.C.L. (Oxon.),

LL.D. (Glasc. & Dubl.), Ph.D., F.R.S., F.C.S., Memb. Inst. C.E.

REPORTS ON THE STATE OF SCIENCE.

Report of the Committee, consisting of Professor SYLVESTER, Professor

CAYLEY, and the Rev. GEORGE SALMON, D.D., appointed in connection with

the Calculation of Tables of Fundamental Invariants of Binary Quantics

Report (provisional) of the Committee, consisting of Mr. ROBERT H. SCOTT

(Secretary), Mr. J. NORMAN LOCKYER, Professor H. J. S. SMITH, Professor

G. G. STOKES, Professor BALFOUR STEWART, and Mr. G. J. SYMONS, ap-

pointed for the purpose of co-operating with the Meteorological Society of

the Mauritius in their proposed publication of Daily Synoptic Charts of the
Indian Ocean from the year 1861

Report of the Committee, consisting of Captain ABNEY (Secretary), Professor
W. G. ADAMS, Professor G. C. FOSTER. Professor Lord RAYLEIGH, Mr.

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