Considering the best Methods of Recording the Direct Intensity of Solar Radiation.

The Volcanic and Seismological Phenomena of Japan.

Comparing and Reducing Magnetic Observations.

The Continuation of the Bibliography Chairman.-Professor H. McLeod. of Spectroscopy.

2. Not receiving Grants of Money-continued.

Members of the Committee

Subject for Investigation or Purpose

To report on recent Inquiries into the
History of Chemistry.

Chairman.-Professor H. E. Armstrong.
Secretary.-Professor John Ferguson.

The Teaching of Natural Science in Chairman.-Dr. J. H. Gladstone.
Elementary Schools.

The Rate of Erosion of the Sea-coasts of England and Wales, and the Influence of the Artificial Abstraction of Shingle or other material in that action.

The Volcanic Phenomena of Vesuvius and its neighbourhood.

To consider the best Methods for the Registration of all Type Specimens of Fossils in the British Isles, and to report on the same.

The Circulation of the Underground Waters in the Permeable Formations of England, and the Quality and Quantity of the Waters supplied to various Towns and Districts from these Formations. And that a Digest of the eighteen Reports should be prepared by the Committee, and sold in a separate form.

To report on the present state of our Knowledge of the Zoology of the Sandwich Islands, and to take steps to investigate ascertained deficiencies in the Fauna, with power to co-operate with the Committee appointed for the purpose by the Royal Society, and to avail themselves of such assistance in their investigations as may be offered by the Hawaiian Government.

To make a Digest of the Observations on the Migration of Birds at Lighthouses and Light-vessels.

Secretary.-Professor H. E. Armstrong.
Mr. George Gladstone, Professor W. R.
Dunstan, Sir J. Lubbock, Sir Philip
Magnus, Sir H. E. Roscoe, and Dr.
Silvanus P. Thompson.

Chairman. Mr. W. Whitaker.
Secretaries.-Messrs. C. E. De Rance and
W. Topley.

Messrs. J. B. Redman and J. W. Woodall,
Maj.-Gen. Sir A. Clarke, Admiral Sir E.
Ommanney, Capt. Sir G. Nares, Capt.
J. Parsons, Capt. W. J. L. Wharton,
Professor J. Prestwich, Mr. Edward
Easton, Mr. J. S. Valentine, and Pro-
fessor L. F. Vernon Harcourt.

Chairman.-Mr. H. Bauerman.
Secretary.-Dr. H. J. Johnston-Lavis.
Messrs. F. W. Rudler and J. J. H. Teall.

Chairman.-Dr. H. Woodward.
Secretary.-Mr. A. Smith Woodward.
Rev. G. F. Whidborne, Mr. R. Kidston,
and Mr. J. E. Marr.

Chairman.-Professor E. Hull.
Secretary.-Mr. C. E. De Rance.
Sir D. Galton, Professor J. Prestwich,
and Messrs. J. Glaisher, P. F. Kendall,
E. B. Marten, G. H. Morton, I. Roberts,
T. S. Stooke, G. J. Symons, W. Topley,
C. Tylden-Wright, E. Wethered, and
W. Whitaker.

Chairman.-Professor A. Newton.
Secretary. Dr. David Sharp.
Dr. W. T. Blanford, Professor S. J.
Hickson, Professor Riley, Mr. O. Sal-
vin, Dr. P. L. Sclater, and Mr. Edgar A.
Smith.

Chairman.-Professor A. Newton.
Secretary.-Mr. John Cordeaux.

Mr. John A. Harvie-Brown, Mr. R. M.
Barrington, Mr. W. E. Clarke, and Rev.
E. P. Knubley.

Communications ordered to be printed in extenso.

Dr. S. P. Langley's paper on Recent Researches in the Infra-red Spectrum.' Professor G. Quincke's paper on the Formation of Soap-bubbles by the Contact of Alkaline Oleates with Water.'

Professor W. Förster's paper on the Displacements of the Rotational Axis of the Earth.'

Professor A. Cornu's paper on a 'Lecture-room Experiment to illustrate Fresnel's Diffraction Theory, Babinet's Principle.'

Professor J. J. Thomson's paper on the Connection between Chemical Combination and the Discharge of Electricity through Gases.'

Mr. H. Brereton Baker's paper on the Electrification of Molecules and Chemical Change.'

Professor O. Henrici's report on Planimeters.

Sir Andrew Noble's paper on Methods that have been adopted for Measuring Pressures in the Bores of Guns.'

Resolutions relating to the Constitution and Titles of Sections.

That the title of Section B in future be Chemistry.'

That the title of Section D be 'Zoology.'

That a separate Section of Botany be established.

That the title of Section I be Physiology, including Experimental Pathology and Experimental Psychology.'

That Section I be next constituted independently for the Liverpool Meeting in 1896.

Resolutions referred to the Council for consideration, and action

if desirable.

That the Council of the Association be requested to give their full support to the efforts being made to induce the Government to send out a fully-equipped expedition for the exploration of the Antarctic and Southern Seas.

That the Council be requested to call the attention of the Civil Service Commissioners to the report of a Committee of Section F on the Methods of Economic Training, and especially to the recommendations (contained on page 2) with regard to the position of Economics in the Civil Service Examinations.