OF CORRESPONDING SOCIETIES OF BRITISH ASSOCIATION. 1 79 



To consider proposals for the Legislative Protection of Wild Birds' 

 Eggs. Chairman. — Mr. Tiiomas Henry Thomas. Secretary. — Dr. C. T. 

 \'achell. Professors W. N. Parker, Newton, and Leipner, Mr. Poulton, and 

 Canon Tristram. 



Recording the Position, Height above the Sea, Lithological 

 Characters, Size, and Origin of the Erratic Blccks of England, 

 Wales, and Ireland, reporting other matters of Interest connected 

 with the same, and taking measures for their preservation. Chair' 

 r/ww.— Professor E. Hull. Secretary.— ^Xx. P. F. Kendall. Professors W. Boyd 

 Dawkins, T. McK. Ilucjhes, T. G. Bonney, and J. Preslwich, and Messrs. C. E. 

 De Ranee, R. H. Tiddeman, J. W. Woodall, and Prof. L. C. Miall. 



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. Chairman. — Mr. W. Whitaker. Secretaries. — Messrs. 

 C. E. De Ranee 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, and Messrs. E. Easton. 

 and J. S. \^alentine, and Professor L. F. Vernon Harcourt. 



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. Chairmm. — Professor E. 

 Hull. Secretary.— Mr. C. E. De Ranee. Dr. H. W. Crosskey, Sir. D. Galton, 

 Professor J. Prestwich, and Messrs. J. Glaisher, P. Kendall, E. B. Marten, G. H. 

 Morton, W. Pengelly, J. Plant, I. Roberts, T. S. Stooke, G. J. Symons, W. 

 Topley, Tylden-Wright, E. WethereJ, and W. Whitaker. 



The Rate of Increase of Undergrou-d Temperature downwards in 

 various Localities of dry Land and under Water. Chairman. — Professor 

 Everett. Secretary. — Professor Everett. Professor Lord Kelvin, Mr. G. J. 

 Symons, Sir A. Geikie, Mr. J. Glaisher, Mr. Pengelly, Professor Edward Hull, 

 Professor Prestwich, Dr. C. Le Neve Foster, Professor A. S. Herschel, Professor 

 G. A. Lebour, Mr. A. B. Wynne, Mr. Galloway, Mr. Joseph Dickinson, Mr. G. 

 F. Deacon, Mr. E. Wethered, Mr. A. Strahan, and Professor Michie Smith. 



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 coal mine explosions. Chairmin.— Mr. G. J. Symons. Secretary. — 

 Mr. C. Davison. Sir F. J. Bramwell, Mr. E. A. Cowper, Professor G. H. Darwin, 

 Professor Ewing, Mr. Isaac Roberts, Mr. Thomas Gray, .Sir John Evans, Pro- 

 fessors Prestwich, Hull, Lebour, Meldola, and Judd, Mr. M. AValton Brown, Mr. J. 

 Glaisher, Professor C. G. Knott, Professor J. H. Poynling, and Mr. Horace Darwin. 



The Collection, Preservation, and Systematic Registration of 

 Photographs of Geological Interest. Chairman. — Professor J. Geikie. 

 Secretary.— Mr. O. W. Jeffs. Professors Bonney and Boyd Dawkins, Drs. V. Ball 

 and T. Anderson, and Messrs. A. S. Reid, E. J. Garwood, W. Gray, H. B. Wood- 

 ward, J. E. Bedford, R. Kidston, W. W. Watts, J. W. Davis, and R. H. Tiddeman- 



The Application of Photography to the Elucidation of Meteoro- 

 logical Phenomena. Chairman. — Mr. G. J. Symons. Secretary. — Mr. A. W, 

 Clayden. Professor R. Meldola and .Mr. John Hopkinson. 



