RESEARCHES IN SCIENCE. ‘XxXXI 
That a Committee, consisting of Sir Charles Lemon, Mr. 
Porter, Mr. Hallam, Colonel Sykes, and Mr. Heywood, be re- 
quested to encourage Inquiries into the actual state of Educa- 
tion in Great Britain, considered merely as to numerical ana- 
lysis, and that the sum of 100/. be placed at the disposal of the 
above-named Committee for the purpose. 
The Report to be presented at the next meeting of the As- 
sociation. 
That a Committee, consisting of Colonel Sykes, Lord San- 
don, Mr. Porter, Mr. Heywood, Dr. Alison, Dr. Cowan, Mr. 
Chadwick, and Mr. Watt, be requested to inquire into Vital 
Statistics, and that the sum of 100/. be placed at the disposal 
of the Committee for the purpose. 
The Report to be presented at the next meeting of the As- 
sociation. 
That a Committee, consisting of Professor Johnston, Mr. 
Wharton, Mr. Wilson, Mr. William Murray, Mr. Chas. Baird, 
Mr. Thomas Edington, jun., Mr. De la Beche, and Mr. D. 
Milne, be requested to inquire into the Mining Statistics of the 
British Coal Fields, and that the sum of 25/. be placed at the 
disposal of the Committee for the purpose. 
The Report to be presented at the next meeting of the As- 
sociation. 
That a Committee, consisting of Mr. John Enys, Mr. John 
Taylor, Mr. Fairbairn, Mr. Hodgkinson, Mr. Simpson, and Mr. 
Scott Russell, be requested to obtain a set of Experiments on 
the Temperature of maximum effect in the Condensers of Steam 
Engines, and that the sum of 25/. be placed at their disposal 
for the purpose. 
The Report to be presented at the next meeting of the As- 
sociation. 
That a Committee, consisting of Sir John Robison and Sir 
Thomas Brisbane, be requested to procure, and to hold at the 
disposal of the Association, a set of Roberts’s (of Paris) Mea- 
surers of short intervals of Time, to be employed, in the first 
instance, in completing the Experiments on Waves and on-the 
Forms of Vessels; and that the sum of 30/. be placed at their 
disposal for the purpose. 
The instruments to be presented at the next meeting of the 
Association. 
That a Committee, consisting of Professor Moseley, Mr. 
Enys, and Mr. Hodgkinson, be requested to procure the dyna- 
