Report of the Annual Meeting |
Contents
FRIDAY AUGUST 16 1878 | lxxv |
Sketch of the Geology of the Environs of Dublin By Professor E HULL | 1 |
Report of the Committee consisting of Professor CAYLEY Dr FARR Mr | 92 |
Third Report of the Committee consisting of Dr JOULE Professor Sir | 102 |
Report on the best Means for the Development of Light from CoalGas | 108 |
Fourteenth Report of the Committee for Exploring Kents Cavern Devon | 124 |
Report of Committee consisting of Professor HARKNESS and Mr WILLIAM | 130 |
CONTENTS | 131 |
Notes on Aluminium Alcohols By Dr GLADSTONE and ALFRED TRIBE | 508 |
On some Substances obtained from the Root of the Strawberry By | 514 |
Notes on the Glaciation of Ireland and the Tradition of Lough Lurgan | 528 |
FRIDAY AUGUST 15 1878 | 531 |
SATURDAY AUGUST 17 1878 | 534 |
Report on proposed Kentish Explorations | 540 |
On Hullite a hitherto undescribed Mineral a Hydrous Silicate of peculiar | 542 |
Concerning the Extent of Geological Time By Rev M H CLOSE | 548 |
Report of the Committee consisting of the Rev H F BARNESLAWRENCE | 146 |
Report of the Anthropometric Committee consisting of Dr FARR Lord | 152 |
Report on the Geographical Distribution of the Chiroptera By G E DOBSON | 158 |
On Recent Improvements in the Port of Dublin By BINDON B STONEY | 167 |
Report of the Committee consisting of Professor CAYLEY F R S Professor | 172 |
Eleventh Report of the Committee consisting of Professor EVERETT Professor | 178 |
Sixth Report of the Committee consisting of Professor PRESTWICH Professor | 185 |
Report on the Present State of our Knowledge of the Crustacea Part IV | 193 |
Report of a Committee consisting of Professor ROLLESTON MajorGeneral | 209 |
Report of the Committee consisting of Professor Sir WILLIAM THOMSON | 217 |
Second Report of the Committee consisting of Professor Sir WILLIAM | 219 |
Report on Sunspots and Rainfall By CHARLES MELDRUM F R S | 230 |
Report on Observations of Luminous Meteors during the Year 187778 by | 258 |
Sixth Report of the Committee consisting of Sir JOHN LUBBOCK Bart Pro | 377 |
Report of the Committee consisting of JAMES R NAPIER F R S Sir | 419 |
SECTION A MATHEMATICAL AND PHYSICAL SCIENCE | 433 |
On a Spectroscope of unusually large Aperture By G J STONEY | 441 |
On the Cause of Travelling Motion of Spheroidal Drops By G John | 442 |
MONDAY AUGUST 19 1878 | 448 |
On a New Form of ElectroRegistering Apparatus By DENNY LANE | 454 |
On the Eighteen Coordinates of a Conic in Space By WILLIAM SPOTTIS | 462 |
On the Principal Screws of Inertia of a free or constrained Rigid Body | 463 |
On the Solution of a Differential Equation allied to Riccatis By J | 469 |
On the Motion of Two Cylinders in a Fluid By W M HICKS M A | 475 |
On the Influence of the Straits of Dover on the Tides of the British | 481 |
On a new Method of maintaining the Motion of a Free Pendulum | 486 |
OBJECTS and Rules of the Association | 487 |
A New Form of TrapDoor Electrometer By Professor BARRETT | 495 |
SECTION B CHEMICAL SCIENCE | 501 |
Report of the Closetime Committee | 558 |
ANDERSON | 559 |
MONDAY AUGUST 19 1878 | 561 |
On the supposed Radiolarians and Diatoms of the Coalmeasures By Professor W C WILLIAMSON F R S | 564 |
On the Nectar of Flowers By ALEX S WILSON M A B Sc | 567 |
Notes on some Dimorphic Plants By ALEX S WILSON M A B Sc | 568 |
On the Inflorescence of Senebiera didyma By ALEXANDER DICKSON M D | 569 |
Exhibition of Specimens of Isoetes echinospora By ALEXANDER DICKSON M D Regius Professor of Botany in the University of Glasgow | 570 |
TUESDAY AUGUST 20 1878 | 571 |
Recent Additions to the List of Irish Lepidoptera By R W SINCLAIR | 572 |
FRIDAY AUGUST 16 1878 | 573 |
Flint Factories at Portstewart and elsewhere in the North of Ireland | 579 |
TUESDAY AUGUST 20 1878 | 585 |
WEDNESDAY AUGUST 21 1878 | 591 |
Address by Dr R MCDONNELL F R S | 593 |
On the Gill Skeleton of Selache Maxima By A MACALISTER M D | 600 |
Note on the Occurrence of a Sacral Dimple and its possible Significance | 606 |
SECTION E GEOGRAPHY | 613 |
FRIDAY AUGUST 16 1878 | 628 |
TUESDAY AUGUST 20 1878 | 636 |
On the Boardingout of Pauper Children By Miss ISABELLA M Tod | 659 |
Report of Committee on Common Measure of Value in Direct Taxation | 666 |
TUESDAY AUGUST 20 1878 | 673 |
SECTION G MECHANICAL SCIENCE | 679 |
On the Control of Rivers By W SHELFORD M Inst C E F G S | 690 |
Recent Improvements in the Port of Dublin By B B STONEY | 696 |
Report of the Committee on the Patent Laws | 697 |
On the Present State of Electric Lighting By JAMES N SHOOLBRED | 706 |
On the Dublin Waterworks By PARKE NEVILLE | 712 |