RECOMMENDATIONS OF THE GENERAL COMMITTEE. XXXIX 



And 2ndly. That until such a result be attained, it is improbable 



that any important improvement will be effected iu the position of 



Science or its Cultivators either through the agency of the Government 



or Parliament. 



It is desirable therefore that some measures should be adopted, which 



may be instrumental in inducing scientific men generally to apply their minds 



to the consideration of these questions, and to agree upon some definite 



proposals : — We therefore recommend that the subject should be again 



brought before the Committee of Recommendations. Meanwhile the General 



Committee will be gratified on learning that the importance of the question 



has been recognized by the Council of the Royal Society, who have referred 



its consideration to the Government Grant Committee. That Committee 



have appointed a Sub-Committee, consisting of the President and Officers 



of the Royal Society and seven other Members, who will meet on the 7th 



of October for the purpose of discussing the subject prior to the reassembling 



of the Society after the recess. 



Your Committee recommend for the consideration of the General Com- 

 mittee, whether it would be expedient to relax the rule by which vacancies 

 in our Committee must be filled up exclusively from Members of the British 

 Association, so far as to admit Members of either House of Parliament, who 

 have advanced the interests of Science. 



Your Committee also recommend that two vacancies in our body, caused 

 by the non-attendance of the Earl Cathcart and Sir J. V. B. Johnstone, 

 Bart., during two consecutive years, be filled by the election of the Earl of 

 Burlington and Lord Stanley, Member of Parliament for King's Lynn. 



25 July, 1856. Wrottesley, Chairman. 



Recommendations adopted by the General Committee at the 

 Cheltenham Meeting in August 1856. 



[When Committees are appointed, the Member first named is regarded as the Secretary of 

 the Committee, except there be a specific nomination.] 



Involving Grants of Money. 



That the sum of £350 be placed at the disposal of the Council for main- 

 taining the Establishment and providing for the continuance of Special Re- 

 searches at Kew. 



That Mr. F. Osier be requested to continue his reduction of Anemome- 

 trical Observations ; with £20 at his disposal for the purpose. 



That Mr. R. W. Fox be requested to make further Experiments on the 

 Temperature of deep Mines in Cornwall; with £10 at his disposal for the 

 purpose. 



That Professor N. S. Maskelyne, T. F. Hardwich, and Mr. J. D. Lie- 

 wellyn, be a Committee, with power to add to their number, for the purpose 

 of drawing up a Report on the chemical nature of the image formed in pho- 

 tographic processes ; with £10 at their disposal. 



That Professor Anderson be requested to complete his Report on the com- 

 pounds of Platinum and the allied metals with Ammonia; with £10 at his 

 disposal for the purpose. 



That Mr. Mallet be requested to continue his Investigations on Earth- 

 quake Waves ; with £50 at his disposal for the purpose. 



That Professor Phillips and Professor Ramsay be requested to construct a 

 Vertical Column of British Strata, to accompany the Map which has been 

 prepared for the Geological Section ; with £1 5 at their disposal for the purpose. 



That Mr. Patterson, Professor Dickie, and Mr. Hyndman, be a Committee,. 



