ilii REPORT — 1856. 



That Mr. Win. Fairbairn, C.E., be requested to continue his Report on 

 Boiler Explosions. 



That a Committee, consisting of Mr. James Thomson, C.E., and Mr. Wil- 

 liam Fairbairn, C.E., F.R.S., be requested to continue their investigations on 

 the Friction of Discs in water and on Centrifugal Pumps. 



That Mr. James Thomson, C.E., be requested to report further on the 

 Measurement of Water by Weir Boards. 



Communications to be printed entire among the Reports. 



That Dr. Booth's Memoir on the Geometrical origin of Logarithms be 

 printed entire in the Reports of the Association. 



That Mr. Etheridge's List of the Fossils from the Lias Bone Bed be 

 printed entire in the Report of the Association's Proceedings. 



That the Communication of Dr. Wright, on the Echinoderniata of the 

 Oolite, be printed entire in the Reports of the British Association. 



That Professor Goodsir's Paper on the Morphological Constitution of the 

 Skeleton of the Vertebrate Head be printed entire in the Reports of the 

 Association, with such Illustrations as may be necessary. 



Synopsis of Grants of Money appropriated to Scientific Objects by the 

 General Committee at the Cheltenham Meeting in Aug. 1856, with the 



name of the Member, who alone, or as the First of a Committee, is 

 entitled to draw for the Money. 



Kew Observatory. £ s. d. 



At the disposal of the Council for defraying expenses 350 



Mathematics and Physics. 



OsLER, F. — Reduction of Anemometrical Observations 20 



Fox, R. W. — Observations on Subterranean Temperature. ... 10 



Chemical Science. 



Maskelyne, Prof. — Chemical Nature of Photographic Image 10 

 Anderson, Prof. — Compounds of Platinum and other metals 



with Ammonia 10 



Geology. 



Mallet, R. — ^Earthquake Wave Experiments 50 



Phillips, Prof. — Section of British Strata 15 



Zoology and Botany. 



Patterson, R. — Dredging near Belfast 10 



Miles, Rev. C. P.— Dredging on the West Coast of Scotland. 25 



Williams, Dr. — British Annelida 25 



Archer, T. C. — ^Natural Products imported into Liverpool . . 10 



Keddie, W. — Natural Products imported into Glasgow 10 



Henslow, Prof. — Typical Forms for Museums 10 



Jardine, Sir W. — Propagation of Salmon 10 



Carpenter, Rev. P. — MoUusca of California 10 



Pfeiffer, Madame Ida. — Natural History of Madagascar . . 20 



Mechanics. 



Rennie, G. — Production of Heat in Fluids 20 



Hendprson, Andrew. — Life-Boats 5 



Grants 36620 



