RESEARCHES IN SCIENCE. XX1U 



Sir H. T. De la Beche, and Mr. C. Vignoles, with power to add to their 

 number), for taking measures to obtain Coloured Drawings of Railway Sec- 

 tions before they are covered up, be requested to continue their labours ; and 

 that the sum of 200/. be placed at their disposal for the purpose. 



That the Committee formerly appointed (consisting of Dr. Buckland, Mr. 

 L. Horner, Mr. Wheatstone, Mr. Snow Harris, Lord Greenock, Mr. Mime, 

 Professor Forbes, Mr. Pattison, Sir John Robison, Mr. T. J. Torrie, Major 

 Portlock, Mr. Bryce) for registering the Shocks of Earthquakes in England, 

 Scotland, and Ireland, and for making such Meteorological Observations as 

 may appear to them desirable, be re-appointed ; and that the sum of 100/. be 

 placed at their disposal for the purpose. 



That Mr. Binney be requested to make an excavation at the junction of the 

 Lower New Red Sandstone with the Coal Strata at Collyhurst, near Man- 

 chester, with the sum of 10/. at his disposal for the purpose. 



That Major Portlock be requested to continue his experiments on the Tem- 

 perature of Mines in Ireland ; and that the sum of 10/. be placed at his dis- 

 posal for the purpose. 



SECTION D. 



That Mr. H. E. Strickland, Mr. C. Darwin, Professor Henslow, Rev. L. 

 Jenyns, Mr. W. Ogilby, Mr. J. Phillips, Dr. Richardson, Mr. J. O. West- 

 wood, Professor Owen, Mr. Broderip, be a Committee for printing and cir- 

 culating their Report on Zoological Nomenclature, with the sum of 10/. at 

 their disposal for the purpose. 



That a Committee formerly appointed, consisting of Mr. H. E. Strickland, 

 Professor Daubeny, Professor Henslow, and Professor Lindley, be requested 

 to continue their Experiments xm the Growth and Vitality of Seeds, with the 

 sum of 16/. 14s. at their disposal for the purpose. 



That Sir Charles Lemon and Mr. Jonathan Couch be a Committee for 

 enabling Mr. Peach to continue his researches on the habits of the Marine 

 Testacea, to institute a series of Experiments on their reproduction and 

 Growth, and to draw up a Report on the result of his observations, with 10/. 

 at their disposal for the purpose. 



That a Committee formerly appointed, consisting of Mr. Babington and 

 Mr. Garnons, be requested to continue the researches on the preservation of 

 animal and vegetable substances ; and that the sum of 6/., formerly granted, 

 be placed at their disposal for the purpose. 



That a Committee formerly appointed, consisting of Dr. Richardson, Rev. 

 Dr. Buckland, and Mr. R. Taylor, for defraying the necessary expenses at- 

 tendant on the preparation of Professor Owen's Report on British Fossil 

 Mammalia, be re-appointed, with the sum of 100/. (the unexpended balance 

 of a former grant) aj their disposal for the purpose. 



That Sir W. Jardine, Mr. Selby, Mr. Yarrell, and Dr. Lankester, be a 

 Committee for defraying the expense of illustrating undescribed species of 

 Anopleura, Foreign as well as British, with the sum of 25/. at their disposal 

 for the purpose. 



That Mr. Edward Forbes be requested to draw up a Report on the Ra- 

 diata and Mollusca of the iEgean and Red Sea, with special reference to the 

 relation of the recent genera and species to those which have been hitherto 

 supposed to occur only in a fossil state, with 1 00/. at his disposal for the 

 purpose. 



That a Committee formerly appointed, consisting of Mr. Gray, Mr. Forbes, 

 Mr. Goodsir, Mr. Patterson, Mr. Thompson (of Belfast), Mr. Ball (of Dublin), 

 Dr. Geo. Johnston, Mr. Smith (of Jordan Hill), Mr. Couch, Mr. Bartlett, 

 Mr. H. Bellamy, Mr. Walker, Mr. Lyte, and Mr. Wallace of Douglas (Isle 



