Report of the Annual Meeting |
Contents
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 | xxxv |
On some curious Concretion Balls derived from a Colliery Mineral Water | xxxix |
Evening Lectures | xlviii |
Table showing the Attendance and Receipts at Annual Meetings | liv |
Correspondence with the Treasury about the Natural History | lx |
Recommendations of the General Committee for Additional Reports | lxix |
Note on the Enumerations of Primes of the Forms 4n+1 and 4n+3 | 268 |
On Selfacting Intermittent Siphons and the Conditions which determine | 275 |
Experiments on the Influence of the Angle of the Lip of Rain Gauges | 278 |
Note on the Capacity of a certain Condenser and on the value of V | 285 |
On a Theorem relating to the Transformation of Series By the Rev | 291 |
Address by Professor J DEWAR M A F R S L E | 293 |
A Lecture Experiment in Illustration of the Hollway Process of Smelting | 300 |
Note on the Vapour Densities of Ferrous Chloride and Iodide of Potassium | 308 |
TUESDAY AUGUST 26 1879 | lxxxvi |
Address by the President Professor G J ALLMAN M D LL D F R | 1 |
On an Instrument for Determining the Sensible Warmth of Air | 7 |
Report of the Committee consisting of Professor Sir WILLIAM THOMSON Pro | 33 |
Fourth Report of the Committee consisting of Dr JOULE Professor Sir WIL | 36 |
Report of the Committee consisting of Professor CAYLEY F R S Professor | 46 |
Sixth Report of a Committee consisting of Professor A S HERSCHEL M A | 58 |
Report of the Committee consisting of Professor SYLVESTER F R S | 66 |
Report of Observations of Luminous Meteors during the year 187879 by | 76 |
37 | 104 |
66 | 128 |
Report of the Committee consisting of Mr DAVID GILL Professor G FORBES | 131 |
Fifteenth Report of the Committee consisting of JOHN EVANS F R S | 140 |
Report of the Committee consisting of Mr JOHN EVANS Sir JOHN LUBBOCK | 149 |
71 | 154 |
Fifth Report of the Committee consisting of Professor HULL Rev H | 155 |
Report of the Committee consisting of the Rev MAXWELL CLOSE Professor | 162 |
Report of the Committee appointed for the purpose of arranging for the occu | 165 |
Report of the Committee consisting of MajorGeneral LANE FOX Mr WIL | 171 |
Report of the Committee consisting of Mr SCLATER Dr G HARTLAUB | 210 |
Third Report of the Committee consisting of Professor Sir WILLIAM | 219 |
Second Report of the Committee consisting of Dr A W WILLIAMSON Pro | 223 |
Hydrography Past and Present By Lieutenant G T TEMPLE R N | 229 |
Address by G JOHNSTONE STONEY M A F R S M R I A | 243 |
On some New Instruments recently constructed for the continuation | 249 |
The Pseudophone By Professor SILVANUS P THOMPSON B A D Sc | 255 |
On the Curve of Polarisation Stress as determined by Mr Crookess Mea | 256 |
On the Fundamental Principles of the Algebra of Logic By ALEXANDER | 262 |
The Rare Metals of the Yttrium Group By T S HUMPIDGE Ph D | 316 |
On the Detection of Milk Adulteration By WILLIAM H WATSON F C S | 322 |
Seventh Report of the Committee appointed for the purpose of recording | 332 |
Discovery of a Bone Cave near Cappagh Co Waterford By R J USSHER | 338 |
On the Foundation of the Town Hall Paisley with Notes on the Rocks | 344 |
The Geological Age of the Rocks of West Cornwall By J H COLLINS | 347 |
BIOLOGY | 354 |
On the Occurrence of Leptodora hyalina in England By Sir JOHN LUB | 369 |
On the Homologies of the Cephalopoda By J F BLAKE | 376 |
Notes on the Polynesian Race By C STANILAND WAKE | 390 |
On the Native Races of the HeadWaters of the Zambesi By Major | 393 |
The Profile of the Ancient Greeks By J PARK HARRISON M A | 399 |
Professor J BURDON SANDERSON M D F R | 404 |
Address by P H PYESMITH B A M D Chairman of the Department | 416 |
The Basin of the Ogowe By M SAVORGNAN DE BRAZZA | 440 |
MONDAY AUGUST 25 1879 | 443 |
On the Orography of the NorthWestern Frontier of India By TRE | 449 |
On Geographical Studies and Works in Italy By Professor G Dalla | 456 |
Report of the Anthropometric Committee | 469 |
Agricultural Statistics Tenure and Depression By WILLIAM BOTLY | 472 |
Reformatory Punishment By F T MOTT F R G | 478 |
On the Vital Statistics of Sheffield By THOMAS WHITESIDE HIME B A | 488 |
SECTION G MECHANICAL SCIENCE | 495 |
On Léon Francqs Fireless Locomotive By Mons CHARLES BERGERON | 501 |
On recent Advances in Electric Lighting By JAMES N SHOOLBRED | 503 |
Cowpers Writing Telegraph By E A CowPER | 520 |
On the Law of the Power required for different speeds of the same steam | 526 |