RECOMMENDATIONS. 483 



ANATOMY AND PHYSIOLOGY. 



*1. That the effects of poison on the ammal ceconomy should 

 be investigated and illustrated by graphic representations ; and 

 that a sum not exceeding 251. be appropriated for this object. 

 Dr. Roupell and Dr. Hodgkin were requested to undertake this 

 investigation. 



*2. That an experimental investigation should be made of 

 the sensibihties of the Nerves of the Brain ; and that a sum not 

 exceeding 251. should be appropriated to this object. Dr. 

 Marshall Hall and Mr. S. D. Broughton were requested to un- 

 dertake these experiments. 



ARTS. 



* That Mr. Dent be requested to communicate to the next 

 Meeting of the Association, a statement of the performance of 

 his chronometer with a glass balance-spring. 



Desideratum noticed by Professor Barlow in his Report on 

 the Strength of Materials. 



A set of experiments on the application of a straining force 

 on vertical columns (of timber, iron, &c.). 



STATISTICS. 



*1. That Colonel Sykes be requested to prepare for publi- 

 cation his valuable statistical returns, collected by himself in 

 India, relative to the four CoUectorates of the Deccan, subject 

 to the Bombay Government. 



*2. That Professor Jones be requested to endeavour to ob- 

 tain permission to examine the statistical records understood to 

 exist in great number in the archives of the India House, and 

 to prepare an account of the nature and extent of them. 



*3. The inquiries of this section are restricted to facts re- 

 lating to communities of men which are capable of being ex- 

 pressed by numbers, and which promise, when sufficiently 

 multiplied, to indicate general laws. 



* A permanent Committee of this section was appointed. 

 Professor Babbage was requested to act as Chairman, and Mr. 

 Drinkwater as Secretary. 



In a Report since addressed to the Council by this Committee, 

 it is stated, that the Committee having deemed it expedient to 

 promote the formation of a Statistical Society in London, a 

 public meeting was held on the 15th of March, 1834, at which 



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