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COMMITTEES APPOINTED BY THE GENERAL COMMITTEE AT THE OXFORD MEETING IN AUGUST 1894.

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Making Experiments for improving the Construction of Practical Standards for use in Electrical Measurements.

The Application of Photography to the Elucidation of Meteorological Phenomena.

For Calculating Tables of certain Mathematical Functions, and, if necessary, for taking steps to carry out the Calculations, and to publish the results in an accessible form. [Unexpended balance in hands of Committee.]

Considering the advisability and possibility of establishing in other parts of the country Observations upon the Prevalence of Earth Tremors similar to those now being made in Durham in connection with coalmine explosions.

Chairman.-Professor G. Carey

Foster.

Secretary.-Mr. R. T. Glazebrook. Lord Kelvin, Professors W. E. Ayrton, J. Perry, W. G. Adams, and Oliver J. Lodge, Lord Rayleigh, Dr. John Hopkinson, Dr. A. Muirhead, Messrs. W. H. Preece and Herbert Taylor, Professors J. D. Everett and A. Schuster, Dr. J. A. Fleming, Professors G. F. FitzGerald, G. Chrystal, and J. J. Thomson, Mr. W. N. Shaw, Dr. J. T. Bottomley, Rev. T. C. Fitzpatrick, Professor J. Viriamu Jones, Dr. G. Johnstone Stoney, Professor S. P. Thompson, Mr. G. Forbes, and Mr. J. Rennie.

Chairman.- Mr. G. J. Symons. Secretary.—Mr. A. W. Clayden. Professor R. Meldola and Mr. John Hopkinson.

Chairman.-Lord Rayleigh. Secretary.-Professor A. Lodge. Lord Kelvin, Professor A. Cayley, Professor B. Price, Dr. J. W. L. Glaisher, Professor A. G. Greenhill, and Professor W. M. Hicks.

Chairman. Mr. G. J. Symons.
Secretary.-Mr. C. Davison.
Sir F. J. Bramwell, Professor G. H.

Darwin, Professor J. A. Ewing,
Mr. Isaac Roberts, Mr. T. Gray,
Sir J. Evans, Professor J. Prest-
wich, Professor E. Hull, Pro-
fessor G. A. Lebour, Professor
R. Meldola, Professor J. W.
Judd, Mr. M. Walton Brown,
Mr. J. Glaisher, Professor C.
G. Knott, Professor J. H.
Poynting, and Mr. Horace
Darwin.

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Preparing a new Series of Wavelength Tables of the Spectra of the Elements.

Chairman.-Lord McLaren.
Secretary.-Professor Crum Brown.
Mr. John Murray, Dr. A. Buchan,
Professor R. Copeland, and Hon.
R. Abercromby.

Professor A. W.

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Chairman.-Dr. E. Atkinson.
Secretary.
Rücker.

Chairman.-Mr. Howard Fox.

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Secretary.--Professor W. G. Adams.

Professor A. W. Rücker.

Chairman.

Rücker.

Professor A. W.

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Secretary. Mr. W. Watson.
Professor A. Schuster and Pro-
fessor H. H. Turner.

Chairman.-Rev. Robert Harley.
Secretary. Dr. A. R. Forsyth.
Dr. J. W. L. Glaisher, Professor A.
Lodge, and Professor Karl Pear-

son.

Chairman.-Professor S. P. Thomp

son.

Secretary. Mr. J. Swinburne.
Mr. G. H. Bryan, Mr. C. V. Burton,
Mr. R. T. Glazebrook, Professor
A. W. Rücker, and Dr. G. John-
stone Stoney.

Chairman.-Sir H. E. Roscoe.
Secretary.-Dr. Marshall Watts.
Mr. J. N. Lockyer, Professors J.
Dewar, G. D. Liveing, A.
Schuster, W. N. Hartley, and
Wolcott Gibbs, and Captain
Abney.

The Action of Light upon Dyed Chairman.-Dr. T. E. Thorpe.

Colours.

The Investigation of the direct
Formation of Haloids from pure
Materials.

Secretary.-Professor J. J. Hum

mel.

Dr. W. H. Perkin, Prof. W. J.
Russell, Captain Abney, Prof. W.
Stroud, and Prof. R. Meldola.
Chairman.-Professor H. E. Arm-

strong.
Secretary.-Mr. W. A. Shenstone.
Professor W. R. Dunstan and Mr.
C. H. Bothamley.

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To consider a project for investigating the Structure of a Coral Reef by Boring and Sounding.

To investigate the nature and probable age of the High-level Flint-drift in the Face of the Chalk Escarpment near Ightham, which appears to be productive of Flakes and other Forms of Flint, probably wrought by the hand of Man.

To examine the ground from which

the remains of Cetiosaurus in the Oxford Museum were obtained, with a view to determining whether other parts of the same animal remain in the rock.

To appoint Mr. M. D. Hill to investigate the Fertilisation of the Eggs of Echinoderms, Molluscs, and Annelids, or, failing this, to appoint some other competent investigator to carry on a definite piece of work at the Zoological Station at Naples.

To enable Mr. Edgar Allen or other zoologist to investigate the Decapod Crustacea, and Mr. J. J. Lister to work at Foraminifera, at the Laboratory of the Marine Biological Association, Plymouth. [10. renewed.]

Chairman.-Mr. R. H. Tiddeman. Secretary.-Rev. E. Jones. Professor W. Boyd Dawkins. Professor L. C. Miall, Mr. P. F. Kendall, Mr. A. Birtwhistle, and Mr. J. J. Wilkinson.

Chairman.-Professor T. G. Bon

ney.

Secretary.-Professor W. J. Sollas. Sir Archibald Geikie, Professors

A. H. Green, J. W. Judd, C. Lapworth, A. C. Haddon, Boyd Dawkins, G. H. Darwin, S. J. Hickson, and A. Stewart, Captain W. J. L. Wharton, Drs. H. Hicks, J. Murray, W. T. Blan. ford, Le Neve Foster, and H. B. Guppy, Messrs. F. Darwin, H. O. Forbes, G. C. Bourne, A. R. Binnie, J. W. Gregory, and J. C. Hawkshaw, and Hon. P. Fawcett.

Chairman.-Sir John Evans. Secretary, Mr. B. Harrison. Professor J. Prestwich and Professor H. G. Seeley.

Chairman.-Professor A. H. Green. Secretary. Mr. James Parker. Earl of Ducie, Professor E. Ray Lankester, and Professor H. G. Seeley.

Chairman.-Dr. P. L. Sclater. Secretary. Mr. Percy Sladen. Professor E. Ray Lankester, Professor J. Cossar Ewart, Professor M. Foster, Professor S. J. Hickson, and Mr. A. Sedgwick.

Chairman. Mr. G. C. Bourne. Secretary. Professor E. Ray

Lankester.

Professor M. Foster and Professor S. H. Vines.

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